By Tony Bates, on August 27th, 2010
Valiente, G. (2010) New copyright law hits opposition Canada.com, August 23
‘Last week, the Canadian Association of University Teachers and the Canadian Federation of Students filed an objection with the Copyright Board over a proposed new royalty program. The program was proposed by Access Copyright, a private non-profit body that licenses literary [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 26th, 2010
US News (2010) The average costs of a U.S. college education US News, August 24
This is an interactive graph based on figures from the National Center for Educational Statistics for the school year 2007-8 for different types of US college.
The average annual tuition (plus expenses) at a private nonprofit four-year college is [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 25th, 2010
Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (2010) The Ontario Online Institute: Students’ Vision for Opening Ontario’s Classrooms Toronto ON: OUSA
OUSA have produced a superb document outlining their position regarding the proposed Ontario Online Institute. While strongly supporting the concept, OUSA raises a whole set of key issues that need to be addressed if the [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 25th, 2010
Cohen, P. (2010) Scholars test web alternative to peer review New York Times, August 23
Interesting article about the Shakespeare Quarterly‘s experiment in open peer reviewing.
‘The journal posted online four essays not yet accepted for publication, and a core group of experts….were invited to post their signed comments on the Web [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 23rd, 2010
Keith Hampson’s Higher Education Management Group blog, “And now, we hear from the defense.” (For-Profit Higher Education) brings together some of the arguments for and against for-profit higher education in the USA.
See also his personal post on this topic: For-Profit Higher Ed: Notes By A Sympathetic (But Impatient) Traditionalist
One of the most interesting [...]
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