category EDCI 569 Open and Distributed Learning

Preamble Distance learning is becoming more prevalent in the world. However, education that is not face to face comes at the cost of a loss of sense of community, and reduced instructor to peer, and peer to peer relationships. This… Continue Reading →

What A great deal of academic publishing is controlled by a few dominant publishing companies. According to couture (2017) “five giants – Elsevier, SpringerNature, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis and Sage – which, through mergers and acquisitions in the interest of… Continue Reading →

Preamble As education evolves it is imperative that students around the world are included in public education. Distance learning is one of the methods that can help maintain this inclusivity. This blog seeks to examine the benefits of distance learning… Continue Reading →

What To be successful as an educational framework, open education needs to have resources that are free, accessible, and that contain information that is on par with that of post secondary or vocational training. According to Friesen (2009) the 2002… Continue Reading →

Ipsa scientia potestas est Francis Bacon’s Meditationes Sacrae (1597) What Throughout the history of open and distributed learning, one thing is certain; people, whenever possible seek to enhance their understanding of the world by gaining access to education. That knowledge… Continue Reading →