By Tony Bates, on March 13th, 2010
Kolowich, S. (2010) Student clubs, virtually Inside Higher Education, March 10
An article about student clubs for distance learners at Penn State’s World Campus and the University of Maryland’s University College.
This will come as no surprise to open universities: the UK Open University has had a student association since its inception in 1971, and the Open [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 5th, 2010
I raise this as a result of an interesting question from Ron Richard,of Meritus University, Canada. Ron asked Tony Vincent, who runs the excellent Learning in Hand site, and myself:
I have recently been researching some web-based resources for our faculty, who teach exclusively online, but who do not venture much outside the limited [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 1st, 2010
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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 15th, 2010
Dwyer, M. (2010) 2010 Student Surveys Macleans.Ca OnCampus, February 15
This article provides results of two student surveys conducted by Canadian universities. One is the NSSE, a survey developed primarily for United States students. The NSSE is a study of best educational practices and an assessment of the degree to which each university follows those practices. [...]
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K. (2010) Understanding the Perspectives of Online Graduate Students: Implications for Educational Leaders Calgary AB: Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Calgary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 education field in North [...]
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