By Tony Bates, on November 27th, 2009
Tajo el Castillo de Almourol, Portugal (from Flickr © Hamster Volador, Creative Commons License)
Hasan, A. et al. (2009) Reforming Distance Learning Higher Education in Portugal Lisbon Portugal: Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education
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This is a report to the Minister from [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 14th, 2009
Identifying the problem with higher education in the 21st was the easy part (Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 1). Much more difficult is finding solutions to the problem.
Summary of the problem
In Part 1, I argued that the challenge for universities today is that
student numbers have increased dramatically,
students are much more [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 24th, 2009
Parry, M. (2009) Online education grows, but painfully Chronicle of Higher Education, May 22
This article looks at potential budget cuts for online learning at University of Texas and the Utah e-Learning Connection. The latter is a consortium of public Utah colleges and institutions, and is now definitely being closed down. The article discusses different funding [...]
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