By Tony Bates, on August 25th, 2010
There was a news item in today’s the Globe and Mail’s Wall Street Journal business section as follows:
Fowler, G. and Baca, M. (2010) Growth of e-books bodes well for reading, Globe and Mail, Toronto, August 25.
The article cites research involving a survey (paid for by Sony) of 1,200 e-reader owners, covering iPad, [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 9th, 2010
The Barber Learning Centre, UBC
McCrea, B. (2010) Remaking the College Campus Campus Technology, August 5
This article focuses on Glasgow Caledonian University’s Saltire Centre, the centerpiece of learning and student services. The Saltire Centre includes a 600-seat learning café, 400 computers, and 250 laptops that students and faculty can [...]
By Tony Bates, on August 9th, 2010
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Lamb, G. (2010) Are iPads, smartphones, and the Mobile Web rewiring the way we think? Christian Science Monitor, July 24
In this article, a number of experts are interviewed about their opinions on whether technology is changing the way we think. Being good journalism, we have [...]
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 [...]
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