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 July 14th, 2010
I have referred in another post to a paper by Maxim Jean-Louis, the President of Contact North, who was one of the participants in the recent HEQCO meeting to discuss possible areas of research that would inform the development of a new Ontario Online Institute. Within that paper, he made some interesting comments on [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 18th, 2010
Kelderman, E. (2010) Credit hours should be worth the cost, House Panel members say Chronicle of Higher Education, June 16
I see US legislators are still trying to use chains and yardsticks to measure the speed of light. I don’t need to say anything about this stupid suggestion – just read the comments to [...]
By Tony Bates, on April 29th, 2010
For those of you not familiar with Seth Godin’s excellent blog on marketing, take a look at his latest blog:
The coming melt-down in higher education, as seen by a marketer
Now I thought this was going to be the usual ‘Let’s hammer the universities’ diatribe that we saw from Tapscott and Williams in [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 29th, 2010
Children in Sierra Leone © Clayton R. Wright
Clayton R. Wright, formerly Director of Instructional Media and Development at Grant MacEwan University, Alberta, is currently working in Sierra Leone.
He kindly agreed to share these observations on teacher education in Africa (and the great photo):
A junior high teacher makes US$100 per [...]
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