By Tony Bates, on August 31st, 2010
On August 23 I posted about online learning and students with disabilities. In the post, I asked readers for suggestions about how to improve the accessibility of my own site and where people could find more information about standards for accessibility for the visually impaired.
I received an excellent response, both as comments to [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 25th, 2010
Cohen, P. (2010) Scholars test web alternative to peer review New York Times, August 23
Interesting article about the Shakespeare Quarterly‘s experiment in open peer reviewing.
‘The journal posted online four essays not yet accepted for publication, and a core group of experts….were invited to post their signed comments on the Web [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 21st, 2010
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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 19th, 2010
Petra, Jordan
IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference: “Learning Environments and Ecosystems in Engineering Education” EDUCON2011 Princess Sumaya University for Technology Amman, Jordan 4-6 April 2011
Call for Papers
The conference is the second of a series sponsored by the IEEE Education Society within IEEE Region 8. It will provide an interdisciplinary forum [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 18th, 2010
Lee, M. and McCoughlin, C. (2010) Web 2.0 Based e-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Learning Hershey PA: IGI Global, 415 pp, US$180 hardback
Description (from publisher)
Educational communities today are rapidly increasing their interest in Web 2.0 and e-learning advancements for the enhancement of teaching practices.
Web 2.0-Based E-Learning: [...]
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