By Tony Bates, on March 9th, 2010
Kirk, A. (2010) Leveraging Technology to Increase Enrollment, Capacity, and Revenues University Business, February
This is quite a good article on what is involved in ramping up a campus-based institution into a national online learning provider (never heard of St Leo University? It has 35,000 online students across the USA). It is the best of several [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 11th, 2010
I’m currently writing a book with Albert Sangra of the Open University of Catalonia on the integration of technology within post-secondary institutions.The book is being published by Jossey-Bass and should be out by the end of the year.
The book is based on a variety of sources, but in particular we have drawn on case studies [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 1st, 2010
Bassis, M. (2009) Reigning in college costs Businessweek, December 21
This is a useful article, from the President of Westminster College, Salt Lake City, to give to your administration to get more support for online learning. I liked particularly his description of how the college business school uses a competency-based approach and e-portfolios within an online [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 28th, 2009
Defelice, R. and Kapp, K. (2009) Time to develop one hour of training Learning Circuits
And, as readers of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy know, the answer is 42 (actually, 43 for stand-and-deliver face-to-face training). But for digital simulations, over 1000 hours.
This is a serious attempt to try and compare costs of different forms of [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 20th, 2009
Wright, C., Dhanarajan, G. and Reju, S. (2009) Recurring Issues Encountered by Distance Educators in Developing and Emerging Nations IRRODL, Vol. 10, No. 1
I don’t know how I missed this in February, but this is essential reading for anyone contemplating using e-learning or online learning in less economically advanced countries, by three experienced and prestigious [...]
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