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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 [...]
Toronto Island from the HECQO boardroom HECQO and the Ontario Online Institute I spent a very interesting day on July 7 at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), discussing a possible research agenda that would support the establishment of the proposed Ontario Online Institute. The creation of this [...] Parry, M. (2010) Outsourced Ed: Colleges Hire Companies to Build Their Online Courses Chronicle of Higher Education, July 18 This article suggests a change in corporate tactics regarding the commercialization of online learning. The article argues that due to the increased pressure from the US Department of Education on for-profit online institutions such as [...] Asimov, N. (2010) UC regents endorse test of online instruction San Francisco Chronicle, July 15 The University of California Board of Regents have agreed to the university developing a fully online undergraduate degree program, and endorsed a pilot program to test it. One regent said: ‘UC has the brainpower – and the motives – [...] Maxim Jean-Louis, the President of Contact North, 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. Following the meeting, he produced a very interesting document for HEQCO entitled: A Research Framework for the Online Learning Institute [...] |
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