By Tony Bates, on January 31st, 2010
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (home of OLT)
It’s now seven years since I resigned as Director of Distance Education and Technology at UBC, and my motto has always been ‘Never look back.’ However, two things came together to bring me back to UBC last week with a ‘formal’ invitation for [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 17th, 2010
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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on December 20th, 2009
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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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 28th, 2009
JISC (2009) Managing curriculum change Bristol UK: JISC
Another interesting publication from the UK’s Joint Information Steering Committee .
This is a short (6 page) well-illustrated document.From the website:
Managing Curriculum Change introduces two major JISC programmes of research commencing in 2008 that investigate how the use of technology can help make curriculum design processes more [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 5th, 2009
Latchem, C. and Jung, I. (2010) Distance and blended learning in Asia New York/London: Routledge
Hong Kong
Overview
This is one of the best books I have read recently on distance education and has lots of good material on e-learning in Asia, as well. It casts its net amazingly wide, from Turkey and Syria in the west [...]
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