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For my advice on starting a private consultancy company on online learning (or not) see tonybates.ca/2024/09/24/a-pe…

For why I was fired by UBC and (somewhat connected) a case study of university mismanagement, see lnkd.in/gazHVveW If you were around at the time please add your own views

Part 24 of my personal history is about honorary degrees - are they a joke? See tonybates.ca/2024/09/09/a-pe…

Welcome back. For my review of a new journal on open and distance education see tonybates.ca/2024/08/22/new-…

For my personal history of Open and distance learning in Australia and New Zealand – and 9/11 see tonybates.ca/2024/07/30/a-pe…

For my experience in Innovating in distance education at the Open University of Portugal in the 2000s see tonybates.ca/2024/07/26/inno…

For my personal history of open and distance learning in Japan and Korea, see tonybates.ca/2024/07/16/a-pe…

For my review of articles on digital learning in Higher Ed institutions in different countries see tonybates.ca/2024/07/09/a-gl…

I have asked four questions about the proposed Open European University at tonybates.ca/2024/07/05/four…

I am worried that due to external pressures our HE institutions run the risk of collapsing from within. For my take on this - and how to prevent it - see tonybates.ca/2024/06/22/are-…

For my review of a very important book on the future of post-secondary education see tonybates.ca/2024/06/14/book…

tonybates.ca/2024/06/07/whic… This is a report on my visit to Tec de Monterrey, Mexico, this week for their 35th anniversary of digital and distance education. As well as the question asked, I discuss my views on the future of teaching and learning in higher education

For my experiences in identifying best institutional practices for faculty development in teaching and learning, see tonybates.ca/2024/05/08/a-pe…

For my views on what universities should do about AI for teaching and learning, see: tonybates.ca/2024/04/26/what…

For how to develop a successful online master's program, see tonybates.ca/2024/04/11/a-pe…

For how we moved UBC's distance courses online in the 1990s see tonybates.ca/2024/04/08/a-pe…

For a diversion to Texas for a videoconferencing project under NAFTA see tonybates.ca/2024/03/29/a-pe…

For no. 15 of my personal history on the move to online learning at UBC in 1996 see tonybates.ca/2024/03/24/a-pe…

For my experience and views on strategic planning in ODL see: tonybates.ca/2024/03/19/a-pe…