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Klein-Collins, R. (2010) Fueling the Race to Post-Secondary Success Chicago IL: The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning One of the features of old age is that things keep recycling. I commented in an earlier post about Intelligent Tutoring Systems coming back from the dead (where they should remain) but the latest ‘born again’ phenomenon, prior [...] Parry, M. (2010) Online Scheme Highlights Fears About Distance-Education Fraud The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 14 Every once in a while comes along a story about distance education that I love to read. This is one of them (the comments are also fun to read). The scam that the woman pulled was so elaborate and netted [...] Blumenstyck, G. (2010) Beyond the Credit Hour: Old Standards Don’t Fit New Models Chronicle of Higher Education, January 3 Blumenstyck writes: In the era of distance education and a growing movement toward the “unbundling” of higher education to allow for study outside traditional classroom formats, has the “credit hour” become a relic? The credit [...] Pereira, A. et al. (2009) Evaluating continuous assessment quality in competence-based education online: the case of the e-folio EURODL, December 9 The paper, from researchers at the Open University of Portugal, proposes two main types of instruments to be used in undergraduate fully online courses: e-folios and p-folios. The e-folio “is a short digital document elaborated [...] Tolley, R. (2010) A New Year – but Old Mantras? e-Folio in the UK, January 3 In an excellent diatribe from the UK, Roy Tolley comments on the curse of old thinking when using new technology, or as he more eloquently puts it: ‘Transformative change’ is not so much about the use of contemporary technology [...] |
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