By Tony Bates, on May 16th, 2010
Young, J. (2010) U. of California Considers Online Classes, or Even Degrees Chronicle of Higher Education, May 9
This is a strange article that discusses the reluctance of faculty at the University of California to consider fully online undergraduate programs, although these are seen as one way for the system to cope with severe [...]
By Tony Bates, on December 11th, 2009
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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 12th, 2009
Guri-Rosenblit, S. (2009) Digital Technologies in Higher Education: Sweeping Expectations and Actual Effects Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers
From the publisher’s synopsis:
The visible gap between some sweeping expectations echoed in the 1990s as to the immense impacts of digital technologies on higher education environments and the actual reality, are discussed in this book. [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 5th, 2009
Latchem, C. and Jung, I. (2010) Distance and blended learning in Asia New York/London: Routledge
Hong Kong
Overview
This is one of the best books I have read recently on distance education and has lots of good material on e-learning in Asia, as well. It casts its net amazingly wide, from Turkey and [...]
By Tony Bates, on September 23rd, 2009
McCrea, B. (2009) Breaking down the traditional barriers to education Campus Technology, Sept 23
An interview with Shai Reshef, the founder of the University of the People, gives more details, as the first enrolments of 158 students started on September 10.
It will be interesting to see how this scales up, and whether enough [...]
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