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 September 15th, 2009
The Journal of Distance Education, Vol. 23, No. 2 is now available online.
The four research articles in this issue address the themes of motivation, group work and community in the online distance education environment.
In the Dialogue section of this issue Randy Garrison challenges us to think about the foundational principles and practices of distance education [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 17th, 2009
Duperray, C. (2009) Combating Yellow Fever: A Serious Game eLearning Africa, No.4, March 12
The World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP) have developed an immersive distance training tool using serious gaming, which is now available for physicians all across Africa. The CD-ROM offers the chance to play the role [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 11th, 2009
eLearning Africa (2009) ‘eLearning Helps to Promote Ethics in Medical Research’ eLearning Africa newsletter, Feb, No. 3
TRREE for Africa is a capacity-building initiative on the ethics of research involving humans that is conducted in African countries. TRREE provides basic web-based training on all issues that concern medical ethics.
Until now, the project group, which involves partners [...]
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