Implementing e-portfolios in a two year college

Schaffhauser, D. (2010) Cultural Shift at a Community College: E-Portfolios Go Campuswide Campus Technology, August 12

This article on an excellent e-portfolio implementation strategy at a two year college in Farmington, Connecticut, is more about change management than e-portfolios. If you are trying to get faculty buy-in to e-portfolios, this article is a good [...]

Why college education costs so much in the USA

Archibald, R. and Feldman, D. (2010) Why does college cost so much? Forbes, August 11

If you can fight your way past the really annoying advertisements on this site, the article is very interesting in its treatment of how technology affects the costs of higher education. The authors are promoting their new book.

They [...]

Another review of DIY U

Norris, D. (2010) Book review: DIY U Planning for Higher Education Planning for Higher Education, Vol. 38, No. 4

This is a comprehensive review of Anya Kamenetz’s book: DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education.

Note: the journal ‘Planning for Higher Education’ comes out first in printed format for SCUP [...]

Barriers to change: two perspectives

Miller, B. (2010) The Course of Innovation: Using Technology to Transform Higher Education Washington DC: EducationSector

Batson, T. (2010) Innovation in Higher Education: It’s Not the Technology Campus Technology, June 2

There is an increasing awareness that for technology to be used effectively, there has to be changes in the way people work. This [...]

The need for new business models for e-learning

Keith Hampson’s Higher Education Management Group‘s blog has an interesting post by Keith about the need for new business models in higher education, includes the recommendation of an excellent book on building successful business models, and a description of the four core components of a business model:

Johnson, M. (2009) Seizing the whitespace Cambridge [...]