By Tony Bates, on November 16th, 2009
As usual, George Siemen’s blog is being provocative in his November 10, 2009 posting: Futue of learning: LMS or SNS, in which he argues that Facebook is the model for education in the future, not Moodle. The discussion following his blog is also worth following.
My only comments on his blog:
1. Why does it have to [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 9th, 2009
Background
This is the last in a series of ten blogs on the topic: ‘Is e-learning failing in higher education?’ My blogs on this topic were prompted by my dissatisfaction with the Canadian Council on Learning’s report on ‘The State of e-Learning in Canada.’ (Click here to see my review of their report.)
I suggested that in [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 5th, 2009
A mosque in Arar, Northern Saudi Arabia. Arar is on the route for pilgrims from Iraq and Iran for the Haj in Mecca.
The purpose of my visit
I have just spent the last two weeks running workshops on planning academic programs using e-learning (for slides see Part 1 and Part [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 26th, 2009
The story so far
In an earlier post (Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 1), I argued that higher education institutions were suffering systemic problems trying to deal with the challenge of increasing access, increasing or even maintaining quality, and lowering costs, despite extensive use of ICTs.
In the second post in this [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 14th, 2009
Identifying the problem with higher education in the 21st was the easy part (Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 1). Much more difficult is finding solutions to the problem.
Summary of the problem
In Part 1, I argued that the challenge for universities today is that
student numbers have increased dramatically,
students are much more [...]
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