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Young, J. (2010) Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom Chronicle of Higher Education, July 24 An interview with Chris Dede, one of the authors of the U.S. National Educational Technology Plan issued in draft form in March. Although Chris Dede gives some useful tips, there is [...] Parry, M. (2010) Outsourced Ed: Colleges Hire Companies to Build Their Online Courses Chronicle of Higher Education, July 18 This article suggests a change in corporate tactics regarding the commercialization of online learning. The article argues that due to the increased pressure from the US Department of Education on for-profit online institutions such as [...] Parry, M. (2010) The humanities go Google Chronicle of Higher Education, June 3 In 1959, a physicist and novelist at Cambridge University, C.P. Snow, argued that the breakdown of communication between the “two cultures” of modern society — the sciences and the humanities — was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems. This [...] Young, J. (2010) U. of California Considers Online Classes, or Even Degrees Chronicle of Higher Education, May 9 This is a strange article that discusses the reluctance of faculty at the University of California to consider fully online undergraduate programs, although these are seen as one way for the system to cope with severe [...]
Young, J. (1010) Will Second Life Upgrade Help Virtual Classrooms? Chronicle of Higher Education, February 25 Following Jeffrey Young’s earlier article suggesting some disillusionment of educational users with Second Life, this article reports on the new interface just released by Second Life. I’ve just downloaded it and need a little time [...] |
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