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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 25th, 2010
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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 11th, 2010
Talent Ng’andwe (2010) Mobile Phone Learning on the Move in Africa, e-Learning Africa News Portal, June 28
From the article:
By 2009, about one third of the African population had a mobile phone subscription – as opposed to only 8.7% using the Internet through desktop computers [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 11th, 2010
Student computer access, Soshangave, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa Photo: © Tony Bates, 2009
This was the topic of a debate at the e-Learning Africa 2010 conference in Lusaka in May.
A report on the debate can found at: http://www.elearning-africa.com/newsportal/english/news255.php
I suggest that this be read in conjunction with:
Reisberg, L. (2010) [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 14th, 2010
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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