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Carter, D. (2010) Universities save much-needed cash with the help of technology eCampus News, March 26 I was just writing a conclusion to a chapter for a book that said efficiencies need to be found in administration and teaching to justify the use of technology when I came across this article about how the [...] Carter, D. (2009) Blackboard, D2L declare truce eSchool News, December 17 The three-and-a-half-year court battle between learning management system (LMS) giant Blackboard Inc. and competitor Desire2Learn ended Dec. 15 when the companies agreed to license each other’s patents and drop long-standing lawsuits. So does this mean that LMS wars are over? Not really. Both [...] Carter, D. (2009) Program goes beyond open course model eSchool News, September 16 Parry, M. (2009) Obama’s Great Course Giveaway Chronicle of Higher Education, August 3 These two articles discuss Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative, which takes open educational resources to the next level. Carnegie Mellon is making available to other institutions (mainly [...] Carter, D. (2009) FCC Moves Closer to Net Neutrality eSchool News, October 23 This article raises a critical question for the future of online learning. Should telecommunications companies be allowed to ‘manage’ who gets priority over the Internet? This article discusses steps by USA’s Federal Communications Commission to ensure a ‘net-neutral’ system, which would [...] Carter, D. (2009) Learning without a license eCampus News, September An article on two new, tuition-free open universities, the University of the People and Peer2Peer University (P2PU), asking whether they are a challenge to traditional universities. The answer, of course is no, not yet, because the do not have accreditation in the USA, nor [...] |
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