By Tony Bates, on August 19th, 2010
Le Meridien Kochi
The Sixth Pan Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF6) will take place from 24-28 November 2010 at Le-Meridien, Cochin Resort & Convention Centre (Kochi, Kerala), India. The theme of PCF6 is: Access and Success in Learning: Global Development Perspectives.
The Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning has grown to become one [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 28th, 2010
© yeowatzup (reproduced through a Creative Commons licence)
The International Council for Distance Education’s conferences are major worldwide conferences on open and distance learning, with representatives present from all the leading publicly funded open and distance education institutions,as well as representatives from most major ‘dual-role’ institutions (i.e. campus-based universities that [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 11th, 2010
Hilton III, J. et al. (2010) Using online technologies to extend a classroom to learners at a distance, Distance Education, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 77-92
This team of researchers (including David Wiley) from Brigham Young University, examined the extent to which a face-to-face course can be shared with learners at a distance. Distance [...]
By Tony Bates, on May 16th, 2010
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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on April 19th, 2010
Cleveland-Innes, M. and Garrison, R. (eds.) 2010 An Introduction to Distance Education: Understanding Teaching and Learning in a New Era New York/Abingdon UK: Routledge
This book is essentially a collection of essays by mainly Canadian authors, although there are also authors from the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Spain.
Chapters
The book is organized [...]
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