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Caveat emptor (buyer beware)! There are thousands of programs available at a distance from many different institutions. In general, ‘buyer beware’ operates in this area. There are many poor quality and unscrupulous distance education programs which do not have accreditation or secure financial resources (and so may disappear overnight). I provide below some guidelines for choosing distance [...] This video interview with Tony Bates discusses the factors at play and the advantages and disadvantages of faculties being responsible for distance education, based on the experience of the University of British Columbia, which unsuccessfully moved to decentralise services in 2003. To see the video, click Centralised DE at dual mode universities? – Quicktime 320 x 240.mov [...] Review of: Gilbert, J. (2005) Catching the Knowledge Wave: the Knowledge Society and the Future of Education Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Council for Educational Research Not available online. To order, go to: http://www.nzcer.org.nz/default.php?products_id=1215 This book argues that ‘the term “knowledge society” is a kind of shorthand for a completely new set of ideas about knowledge – [...] Wong, M. (2008) Why online education works! UBC’s e-Strategy Newsletter, November 6 Professors reflect on how teaching fully online distance courses helps their on-campus classes. (This is my old department where I was Director – now absorbed into the Office of Learning Technologies. It’s nice to see an acorn grow into an oak, as when I arrived [...] Katrina A. Meyer (2006) Cost-Efficiencies in Online Learning: ASHE Higher Education Report, Volume 32, Number 1 San Francisco: Jossey-Bass |
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