Passion is an overused word these days, but its use reflects a cultural shift in the meaning of writing and learning in the context of work and everyday life.

Douglas Coupland has a new and wonderful show at the Vancouver…

As I thought about the problem of the border, the idea of borders, places in between other places, or as a colleague recently suggested to me, the space between a set of open brackets . . .

There are dangers in surrounding ourselves with screens…

Richard Florida has written an excellent piece in a recent issue of The Atlantic. It is entitled, “The Boom Towns and Ghost Towns of the New Economy.” (October 2013)

In 2002, the administrators of the Bettman Archive…

Nigel Lockyr is the Director of the Fermi Lab in Chicago and the former Director of TRIUMF at the University of British Columbia. We had a debate on the relationship between the sciences and the arts at Emily Carr University recently . . .

One of the most brilliant episodes of this incredible series…

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) has been in the news for the last two years.

Over the course of the last forty years, Canada’s universities, colleges and K-12 educational systems have performed extraordinarily well.

The concepts of paradigm and paradigm shift are overused…

I have worked as a teacher and administrator for over forty years and the following reflections on context and communications are a product of my effort to understand and change the way our educational institutions think about teaching and learning.

To me, the experience of learning is dependent upon the context in which it takes place.

Here is a partial list of the ideas and terms that would be…

I have begun and not completed a couple of MOOC-type courses. I have also looked into and closely examined many others.

If you think the target audience for the MOOC you are about to launch could include a lot of inexperienced learners, then as a teacher, you have the obligation to provide for them ways in which they can be supported.

MOOCS are an exciting development in the story of distance learning. However, massive open online courses are part of a long tradition in the history of learning technologies. 

Learning both in the classroom and outside the classroom is generally approached in a linear fashion.

The interface between reality and human perception has shifted…

In the early 1990’s, I taught a course entitled, Introduction to Film at McGill University, that had six hundred registered students in it.