By Tony Bates, on August 8th, 2010
Babcock, P. and Marks, M. (2010) Leisure College USA: The Decline in Student Study Time Washington DC: The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Results
This paper found that in 1961 ‘the average full-time student at a four-year college in the United States studied about 24 hours per week, while his modern counterpart [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 20th, 2010
Smith Jaggars, S. and Bailey, T. (2010) Effectiveness of Fully Online Courses for College Students: Response to a Department of Education Meta-Analysis New York: Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University.
From the abstract:
Proponents of postsecondary online education were recently buoyed by a meta-analysis sponsored by the U.S. Department of [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 11th, 2010
Persico, D., Pozzi, F. and Sarti, L. (2010) Monitoring collaborative activities in computer supported collaborative learning, Distance Education, Vol. 31. No. 1, pp. 5-22
This team of Italian researchers have developed a methodology to track ‘participative, social, cognitive and teaching dimensions of the learning process’ in asynchronous, text-based online teaching in a blended learning [...]
By Tony Bates, on April 1st, 2010
I believe that we will see no real innovation, no fundamental change, in post-secondary education, at least from within, unless all instructors have basic training in teaching at a post-secondary level.
I was involved in developing a post-graduate certificate in technology-based distributed learning which later morphed into a full Master in Educational Technology at [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 9th, 2010
Edmonds, K. (2010) Understanding the Perspectives of Online Graduate Students: Implications for Educational Leaders Calgary AB: Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Calgary
Congratulations to Kelly Edmonds, who has recently successfully defended her EdD thesis at the University of Calgary. Kelly has kindly agreed to provide a short summary of her thesis.
Introduction
The higher [...]
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