A challenge to new Canadian copyright law

By Tony Bates, on August 27th, 2010

Valiente, G. (2010) New copyright law hits opposition Canada.com, August 23

‘Last week, the Canadian Association of University Teachers and the Canadian Federation of Students filed an objection with the Copyright Board over a proposed new royalty program. The program was proposed by Access Copyright, a private non-profit body that licenses literary [...]

August 27th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Bibliography, Canada, Featured, intellectual property and copyright, national, regional and international strategies | 3 comments

Strategic management for e-learning: a New Zealand study

By Tony Bates, on April 5th, 2010

Higgins, A., Prebble, T. and Suddaby, S. (2008) Taking the Lead: Strategic Management for e-Learning Wellington NZ: Ministry of Education/Aotearoa, National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence

This project developed a set of resources and tools that will assist institutional leaders to plan and manage their use of e-learning more strategically. The study attempted to [...]

April 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Featured, New Zealand, Strategies, planning and management, change management, faculty development and training, intellectual property and copyright, leadership, measuring institutional performance, national, regional and international strategies, planning, policies and management - institutional | 2 comments

Can web 2.0 tools be legally used for education in Canada?

By Tony Bates, on March 5th, 2010

I raise this as a result of an interesting question from Ron Richard,of Meritus University, Canada. Ron asked Tony Vincent, who runs the excellent Learning in Hand site, and myself:

I have recently been researching some web-based resources for our faculty, who teach exclusively online, but who do not venture much outside [...]

March 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Blogs, Featured, Google wave, Internet regulation, Strategies, planning and management, Teaching and learning, Technology, Tony's Blog, Tweets, Web 2.0, cloud-based applications, intellectual property and copyright, quality and quality assurance, social software, students, virtual worlds/Second Life | 8 comments

A personal view of e-learning at the University of British Columbia

By Tony Bates, on January 31st, 2010

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (home of OLT)

It’s now seven years since I resigned as Director of Distance Education and Technology at UBC, and my motto has always been ‘Never look back.’ However, two things came together to bring me back to UBC last week with a ‘formal’ [...]

January 31st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Blogs, Strategies, planning and management, Teaching and learning, Technology, Tony's Blog, Tweets, Web 2.0, administrative software systems, agriculture, audio, blogs in learning, business, course design, current state of the art, e-assessment and e-portfolios, health, intellectual property and copyright, leadership, learning management systems, medicine, open content, open source, planning, policies and management - institutional, research, social studies, subject areas, video | 2 comments

Libraries wade into the Google Books debate

By Tony Bates, on December 18th, 2009

Kolowich, S. (2009) Eye on Google Inside Higher Education, December 18

More concerns about Google becoming the master of the digital universe. The article describes an interesting set of objections from American Library Associations about the Google books settlement, including lack of representation of academic authors on the proposed Book Rights Registry. Glad someone’s [...]

December 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Featured, Strategies, planning and management, intellectual property and copyright | Leave a comment
 
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