Will lecture capture replace asynchronous distance learning?

Harrison, D. (2010) Lecture capture helps Riverside meet nursing demand Campus Technology, March 10

From the article:

What do you do when 500 applicants are competing for 60 seats in your two-year nursing program? That’s just what happened at Southern California’s Riverside Community College. Administrators there didn’t just want to turn those students [...]

Is your institution considering mobile learning?

Brimah, T. and Fusch, D. (2010) Considering mobile learning for your institution Academic Impressions Higher Ed Impact: Weekly Analysis January 28

This article, basically an interview with Judy Brown, ‘founder and former director of the University of Wisconsin system’s Academic ADL Co-Lab and a key thinker in mobile learning strategies’, is one of the [...]

Reigning in costs with online learning

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 [...]

Management innovation and online higher education

Hampson, K. (2009) Part 2: Management Innovation and Online Higher Education Higher Education Management Group, May 25, 2009

I’ve just caught up with this excellent posting by Dr. Keith Hampson, Director, Digital Education Strategies at Ryerson University, Toronto. This outlines the reasons why innovation in higher education institutions is so difficult. It is one in a [...]

Special report on virtual schools

Van Dusen, C. (2009) eSN Special Report: Beyond the Virtual School eSchool News, Nov 1

Because of the volume of stuff that comes through my portal, I don’t usually cover k-12 reports, but I’m including this one because it provides some excellent examples of what I like to call hybrid learning (reduced but not eliminated face-to-face [...]