By Tony Bates, on July 16th, 2010
Asimov, N. (2010) UC regents endorse test of online instruction San Francisco Chronicle, July 15
The University of California Board of Regents have agreed to the university developing a fully online undergraduate degree program, and endorsed a pilot program to test it. One regent said: ‘UC has the brainpower – and the motives – to [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 29th, 2010
Graham Attwell is running a thoughtful min-series of blogs on this topic. See:
Attwell, G. (2009) e-portfolios-WTF Pontydysgu: Bridge to Learning, September 4
Attwell, G. (2010) Re-thinking e-portfolios Pontydysgu: Bridge to Learning, March 14
Attwell, G. (2010) More notes on e-Portfolios, PLEs, Web 2.0 and social software Pontydysgu: Bridge to Learning, March 16
Attwell, G. (2010) Using media for [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 29th, 2010
The Canadian Network for Innovation in Education is offering an online audio-conference workshop on April 14 in the CIDER series.
From their announcement
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Terry Anderson, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education, has kindly agreed to present on:
Three Generations of Distance Education Pedagogy. In [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 21st, 2010
Keith Hampson’s Higher Education Management Group blog has an interview with Lloyd Armstrong, the Provost of the University of Southern California, on change in universities.
Armstrong’s comments are what I should have written in response to the Tapscott and William’s article.
This interview indicates clearly why Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive change is not working in the [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 27th, 2010
Allen, I. and Seaman, J. (2010) Learning on Demand: Online Education in the United States Babson Park MA: Babson College Survey Research Group
The Sloan Consortium continues its invaluable annual survey of online learning in the USA in 2009, showing that enrolments in online learning grew 17% last year, compared with overall enrolment growth of 1.2%. [...]
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