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Sill Pontes asks, "Did we spend a whole year improvising at a time when the greatest lesson to learn was about the perils of not having sound and sustainable systems capable of managing risk?" The experience in Brazil during the pandemic, says Pontes, feels like a step backward for...

I don't think the term 'virtual private neighbourhoods' is helpful, because the abbreviation - VPN - is the same as that for the much wider technical concept of the 'virtual private network', which is a type of software security system. But the concept being discussed, whereby "people...

I'm not sure whether I agree with Tom Kuhlmann but I'll put his views out there. The first reason e-learning isn't getting better, he says, is that e-learning designers don't hgave the skills. Not the technical skills, necessarily, since software does a lot of the work....

Late last fall I was helping a student work with PowerPoint. He had been given instruction, but in audio only. He said, "I prefer to work hands-on, so I can see the result." So I had him share his screen, and gave him pointers as he completed the task....

One of the things about moving from in-class to online learning is that it changes the way you think about education. I experienced that in my own life and have seen it play out in various waves over the years, including the most recent during the pandemic. This too is reflected in this article, a semi-profile of BCcampus executive director Mary Burgess. "For many years,"...