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Academic Impressions is one of my main sources of news on e-learning and educational developments. The editor, Daniel Fusch occasionally does interviews with experts on issues that come up in the news. Yesterday, he published an interview with me on teaching academic honesty in the classroom. I often am asked, after giving a keynote [...]
The Barber Learning Centre, UBC McCrea, B. (2010) Remaking the College Campus Campus Technology, August 5 This article focuses on Glasgow Caledonian University’s Saltire Centre, the centerpiece of learning and student services. The Saltire Centre includes a 600-seat learning café, 400 computers, and 250 laptops that students and faculty can [...] Kolowich, S. (2010) Buying local, online Inside Higher Education, July 23 This article looks at whether institutions should focus primarily on local markets for online students, or should seek to recruit from outside their normal catchment area. Note that unlike the Columbia University study cited below, the Kolowich article assumes (correctly in my view) [...]
Toronto Island from the HECQO boardroom HECQO and the Ontario Online Institute I spent a very interesting day on July 7 at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), discussing a possible research agenda that would support the establishment of the proposed Ontario Online Institute. The creation of this [...] Parry, M. (2010) Outsourced Ed: Colleges Hire Companies to Build Their Online Courses Chronicle of Higher Education, July 18 This article suggests a change in corporate tactics regarding the commercialization of online learning. The article argues that due to the increased pressure from the US Department of Education on for-profit online institutions such as [...] |
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