During the first 25 minutes of this interactive webinar, Dr. Bates offers insights, practical advice and guidelines about access and digitalization and how technology can facilitate skills development in post-secondary education. The remaining 30 minutes is a moderated question and answer and discussion session with Dr. Bates.
Dr. Tony Bates is the author of 12 books including his latest, a free, open online textbook for faculty and instructors, called Teaching in a Digital Age, which has been downloaded over 200,000 times since its publication in April, 2015. The textbook was translated into ten languages.
His portal ‘Online learning and distance education resources‘ has nearly 2,500 posts, over 3,000 ‘followers’, and receives over 30,000 visits a month.
His research groups published over 350 papers in the area of distance education and the use of technology for teaching.
Dr. Bates pioneered the Canadian National Online and Digital Learning Survey