By Tony Bates, on March 13th, 2010
Harrison, D. (2010) Lecture capture helps Riverside meet nursing demand Campus Technology, March 10
From the article:
What do you do when 500 applicants are competing for 60 seats in your two-year nursing program? That’s just what happened at Southern California’s Riverside Community College. Administrators there didn’t just want to turn those students [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 13th, 2010
Kolowich, S. (2010) Student clubs, virtually Inside Higher Education, March 10
An article about student clubs for distance learners at Penn State’s World Campus and the University of Maryland’s University College.
This will come as no surprise to open universities: the UK Open University has had a student association since its inception in 1971, and the Open [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 13th, 2010
McCrea, B. (2010) Campus IT under the knife Campus Technology March 4
The University of Illinois is facing a major budget shortfall, and the IT department is looking for cuts of 10 per cent in its budget which will amount to about $10-$20 million in savings. This article describes how it is going about solving the [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 13th, 2010
Fusch, D. (2010) An innovation in learning games Academic Impressions March 11
This is a report of a ‘minimal technology’ approach to using games in the teaching of Latin by Roger Travis, associate professor of classics and director of the video games and human values initiative at the University of Connecticut. The article contains [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 13th, 2010
Daniel, J. (2010) Megaschools, Technology and Teachers London/New York: Routledge
COL President Sir John Daniel’s new book advocates new approaches for providing access to secondary education for today’s rapidly growing population of children and young adults.
Sir John describes the contents of his book in a three-minute video.
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