Higher education course syllabi, like pufferfish, are prone to bloat.

Why is it harder and more time-consuming to manage an online course?

We can count on online instruction to do a good job of educating learners.

For some, online instruction is just another example of the neoliberal threat to higher education.

For many instructors, the classroom is the thing.

One of Waterloo’s online learning consultants explains the User Experience Design for Learning framework.

Is the human side of education only available in the classroom?

Humans are at the centre of any course design.

Does going backward move us forward?

Modules really are the way to go.

Instructors need to think like course designers.

The courses we create need to make use of the spaces in which they’re taught.

The President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Waterloo, Feridun Hamdullahpur, says hello.

Does it have a role in online teaching and learning?

We need to get over our slavish devotion to Bloom’s taxonomy.

Coming to terms with learning theory and theories.

You just have to watch this video of B.F. Skinner’s “teaching machine” to become despondent at what we’ve become.

No matter what the technology, we have to tweak it to fit our particular course or teaching context.

Planning any kind of class experience depends on understanding three contexts.

An introduction to some of the ideas informing the Fall 2020 graduate seminar Online Teaching and Learning.