By Tony Bates, on May 4th, 2010
Katz, R. (2010) Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Digital Age Educause Review, Vol. 45. No. 2, pp. 44-56
It is always interesting to peek over the fence to see what the neighbours are up to. I’m sitting here in Canada just across the border, watching the good citizens of the United [...]
By Tony Bates, on April 29th, 2010
For those of you not familiar with Seth Godin’s excellent blog on marketing, take a look at his latest blog:
The coming melt-down in higher education, as seen by a marketer
Now I thought this was going to be the usual ‘Let’s hammer the universities’ diatribe that we saw from Tapscott and Williams in [...]
By Tony Bates, on April 26th, 2010
Source : https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
The European Re.Vica project has been building country reports on online learning and virtual campuses for a growing number of countries.
It has just published its updated report on the USA, a daunting task given the range and diversity of the U.S. system. From their newsletter:
By Tony Bates, on April 14th, 2010
Bound, J., Lovenheim, M. and Turner, S. (2010) Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States Cambridge MA: National Bureau of Economic Research
This paper answers two important questions: Is it taking students longer these days to graduate at the bachelor’s level? And if so, why?
The answer: yes, more students today are [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 28th, 2010
U.S. Department of Education (2010) National Educational Technology Plan Washington DC: Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education
The U.S. Department of Education published its draft plan on educational technology on March 5 (it can be downloaded by clicking here). Secretary Arne Duncan invites comments on the draft National Educational Technology Plan. The [...]
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