Ways of reducing the cost of online and blended courses in post-secondary education

Posted on by Paul Bacsich
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Summary I am delighted to be attending and speaking at the ALT-C 2025 Conference taking place in Glasgow on 23-24 October 2025. I will be leading a workshop on my current favourite topic: how to reduce the cost of teaching in higher and further education, particularly in the context of digital, online and blended learning. … Continue reading Ways of reducing the cost of online and blended courses in post-secondary education

Lessons from COVID-19: Scotland’s Educational Response Reimagined, by ChatGPT 4.5 Deep Research using a prompt from Paul Bacsich

Posted on by Paul Bacsich

A Counterfactual Response to COVID-19 School Closures in Scotland (2020–2022): universal online provision at school level Introduction and Context When Scottish schools closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, education officials faced an unprecedented challenge: how to ensure continuity of learning for over 700,000 pupils across Scotland​ (en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org). In reality, Scotland relied on ad-hoc remote teaching … Continue reading Lessons from COVID-19: Scotland’s Educational Response Reimagined, by ChatGPT 4.5 Deep Research using a prompt from Paul Bacsich