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 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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 20th, 2010
The context
OK, I’m not James Stewart, and it wasn’t Washington, and this posting’s a little late, due to other things, but this is a report on my presentation to the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology on June 9.
The committee was studying access to post‑secondary [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 6th, 2010
This is really a posting for Canadian readers, but we’re not too proud to take suggestions from anywhere!
I have the honour of being invited by the Canadian Standing Senate Committee on Science and Technology to give my views on what should be done to increase access to post-secondary [...]
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