By Tony Bates, on June 20th, 2010
The context
OK, I’m not James Stewart, and it wasn’t Washington, and this posting’s a little late, due to other things, but this is a report on my presentation to the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology on June 9.
The committee was studying access to post‑secondary [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 18th, 2010
Another report from the B.C. Educational Technology Users Workshop in Victoria, June 5-6.
My keynote on strategic thinking about e-learning argued strongly for a ‘revolutionary’ approach to the use of learning technologies, arguing that merely adding technology to classroom teaching added cost without discernible benefits.
The conference organisers arranged a debate at the end [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 17th, 2010
The Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) offers a range of applied and academic programs that span the spectrum of safety – from prevention to response and recovery. The JIBC offers Canada’s only Bachelor’s Degree in Fire and Safety Studies, which had 80 students enrolled from across Canada and other countries in 2007/08. [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 8th, 2010
Victoria Harbour, BC
On Sunday, I attended a very interesting meeting of about 50 instructional designers (what is a good collective noun for instructional designers?) from across British Columbia, at Camosun College, Victoria. This was a pre-conference workshop before the Educational Technology Users Group of BC’s Spring Workshop (more on [...]
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