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 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
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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: [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 9th, 2010
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Lamb, G. (2010) Are iPads, smartphones, and the Mobile Web rewiring the way we think? Christian Science Monitor, July 24
In this article, a number of experts are interviewed about their opinions on whether technology is changing the way we think. Being good journalism, we have [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 21st, 2010
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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 14th, 2010
Maxim Jean-Louis, the President of Contact North, was one of the participants in the recent HEQCO meeting to discuss possible areas of research that would inform the development of a new Ontario Online Institute.
Following the meeting, he produced a very interesting document for HEQCO entitled: A Research Framework for the Online Learning Institute [...]
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