Digital Learning - beyond eLearning and Blended Learning

Canvas is a full-featured learning management system with tons of features. This post includes tons of tips and resources.

Last week I led a webinar for Contact North, a nonprofit corporation funded by the government of Ontario, that was meant as an update to last year’s session on the LMS. For this update I took a broader look at learning platforms in general, and how the LMS might have to share center stage moving forward, as the changes driven by Pandemic lockdowns have changed adoption patterns in a significant way. Whether you love it or hate it (or are somewhere in between), video platforms are likely here to stay and not just a sideshow. To best understand the changes, the core argument of the webinar is that you need to look at user adoption – the human and social issues involved – even more than the technology roadmaps of the platforms. This is a topic I’ve mentioned in several panel discussions and notes to our EdTech Market Analysis subscribers, but I build out the argument more fully in this webinar.

Leveraging backward design, cross-unit collaboration, and the LMS, advising programs can promote student success while building students’ skills, fost

Every instructor can expect their college will provide a course shell on the learning management system they support. The shell may be largely empty, or it may be completely filled with the materials for the course, or it may be partially filled. Student are likely to be enrolled in your course shell without the instructor’s intervention; this is accomplished by programs and scripts that share information between the school student information system and the learning management system. 

“The online learning environment should be virtually invisible to the learner. It should allow the student to locate and use the learning resources wit