A report on the Southern African Development Organization’s Open and Distance Learning project

Siaciwena, R. (2010) Let’s Talk About Viability – Lessons Learned from SADC’s Open and Distance Learning Project e-Learning Africa, February 23

This is one of three postings about presentations to be made at the e-Learning Africa conference in Lusaka, Zambia, between May 26-29, 2010, THE conference for finding out how e-learning is developing in Africa.

The history of distance education at UBC

Beninger, K. (2010) Going the distance – the beginnings of distance education at UBC UBC e-Strategy Newsletter, February

As part of the celebrations of 60 years of distance education at UBC, Kelsey Beninger has written a fascinating history of distance education going back to the start of UBC in 1918. For anyone interested in the origins [...]

New book on e-learning from the Anadolu Open University, Turkey

Demiray, U. et al. (2010) e-Learning Practices: Cases on challenges facing e-learning and national development Eskisehir, Turkey: Anadolu University

E-Learning offers many opportunities for individuals and institutions all over the world. Individuals can access to education they need almost anytime and anywhere they are ready to. Institutions are able to provide more cost-effective training to their [...]

Latest issue of IRRODL

Mea culpa, but in the preparations for the holiday season, I let slide by my report on the publication of the latest edition (Vol. 10, No. 6) of the always excellent International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. The December edition includes articles on the following:

Rory McGreal’s evaluation of the Commonwealth of Learning’s [...]

Special report on virtual schools

Van Dusen, C. (2009) eSN Special Report: Beyond the Virtual School eSchool News, Nov 1

Because of the volume of stuff that comes through my portal, I don’t usually cover k-12 reports, but I’m including this one because it provides some excellent examples of what I like to call hybrid learning (reduced but not eliminated face-to-face [...]