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 the limited [...]
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’ invitation for [...]
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 standing up [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 12th, 2009
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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 4th, 2009
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 [...]
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