Ontario students’ vision for the Ontario Online Institute

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 [...]

Another perspective on quality

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 [...]

What's a credit worth?

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 [...]

A marketer's view of higher education in the USA

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 [...]

Distance education for teacher training in Africa

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 [...]