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

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 the limited [...]

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

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’ invitation for [...]

Libraries wade into the Google Books debate

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 standing up [...]

New book on ICTs in higher education

Guri-Rosenblit, S. (2009) Digital Technologies in Higher Education: Sweeping Expectations and Actual Effects Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers

From the publisher’s synopsis:

The visible gap between some sweeping expectations echoed in the 1990s as to the immense impacts of digital technologies on higher education environments and the actual reality, are discussed in this book. The various chapters [...]

Integrating e-learning in African universities

The UNU Campus in Bonn

Last week I participated in a three day workshop in Bonn, Germany, for senior African higher education leaders on Integrating e-Learning: Key Challenge for Higher Education Governance, organised jointly by the United Nations University’s Bonn Campus, DAAD (the German Academic Exchange Service) and the Commonwealth of [...]