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Allen, I. and Seaman, J. (2010) Learning on Demand: Online Education in the United States Babson Park MA: Babson College Survey Research Group The Sloan Consortium continues its invaluable annual survey of online learning in the USA in 2009, showing that enrolments in online learning grew 17% last year, compared with overall enrolment growth of 1.2%. [...] Mea culpa, but in the preparations for the holiday season, I let slide by my report on the publication of the latest edition (Vol. 10, No. 6) of the always excellent International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. The December edition includes articles on the following: Rory McGreal’s evaluation of the Commonwealth of Learning’s [...] Connonwealth of Learning (2009) An operational data management program for UNHCR Connections, October An article on a blended learning/distance model for building skills among United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees staff, with an 80% successful completion rate. Kolowich, S. (2009) Hybrid education 2.0 Inside Higher Education, December 28 An interesting article that provides more information about the Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative, particularly the instructional design behind the initiative. The importance of the model (if I understand it correctly) is that while providing a more or less self-standing online learning environment, instructors can gather [...]
© Wikipedia Summary of my priorities 1. A requirement for all newly appointed full-time instructors in public Canadian post-secondary educational institutions to have a formal certification in teaching in post-secondary education, to be in place by September 2012. This would include both pedagogical and technological content. Probability: <1% 2. Establishment of at least one hybrid [...] |
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