Should lifelong learning be state subsidized?

I have argued frequently that universities had yet to grasp how online lifelong learning could be a new line in business and potentially an unfettered source of new revenue – where learners (and their employers) would be prepared to pay the full cost of tuition.

In fact, public two year colleges in North America have realised [...]

UK establishes national task force on e-learning

Bacsich, P. (2010) Task Force Set Up to Promote UK Leadership in Online Learning Re.Vica Newsletter, February-March

Paul writes:

‘A new task force has been launched in the UK in order to help the UK higher education sector maintain and extend its position as a world leader in e-learning. The Task Force will begin by [...]

Impact of open courseware on distance education enrollments

Johansen J. (2009) The Impact of Opencourseware on Paid Enrollment in Distance Learning Courses Salt Lake City UT: Brigham Young University

This is a Ph.D. thesis about the cost of converting online distance learning courses to OCW, the impact of opening these courses on paid enrollments, and the long-term sustainability of OCW through the generation of [...]

Graveyard welding classes

Moltz, D. (2009) In the midnight hour Inside Higher Education, December 9

This article describes midnight courses for welders at an Oregon community college. Although not strictly about e-learning, the article reflects capacity problems in colleges due to the recession, which is driving unemployed workers into re-training – the same pressures that are leading to increased [...]

Company investment in training and learning in Canada

The Conference Board of Canada (2009)  The Learning and Development Outlook 2009: Learning in Tough Times
Ottawa: Conference Board of Canada, 72 pages

The Conference Board of Canada has recently released the 10th edition of its bi-annual Learning and Development Survey. The report states that spending on training, learning and development continues to decline slowly in Canadian [...]