By Tony Bates, on July 28th, 2010
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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 26th, 2010
Dziuban, C. and Fusch, D. (2010) Training and Preparing Your Faculty for Teaching Online Academic Impressions, June 24
In this interview, Chuck Dziuban of the University of Central Florida provides excellent advice on selecting and preparing faculty for online teaching. For old hands at online learning, the advice may seem obvious, but in my [...]
By Tony Bates, on May 7th, 2010
Demski, J. (2010) The device versus the book Campus Technology, May 1
Three universities (Princeton, Arizona State University, and Northwest Missouri State) pilot two e-readers (Kindle DX, Sony Reader), to see how well students could use them for studying. The results were at best mixed, and at worst negative. There were problems with annotation, [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 21st, 2010
Bassi, R. (2009) ICTs in Education (ICT4E): Policies and Plans Worldwide Dublin Ireland: Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative
This document provides online access to the plans and policies for ICTs in education for 193 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. It also includes an excellent list of references on national plans and policies for e-learning.
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By Tony Bates, on March 13th, 2010
Daniel, J. (2010) Megaschools, Technology and Teachers London/New York: Routledge
COL President Sir John Daniel’s new book advocates new approaches for providing access to secondary education for today’s rapidly growing population of children and young adults.
Sir John describes the contents of his book in a three-minute video.
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