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Bugeja, M. (2010) Avatar Rape Inside Higher Education, February 25 I hesitated about posting this blog, not because of the content, but because I already had a strong reaction to a previous posting suggesting that virtual worlds still had a long way to come before they are going to be useful in education, and I don’t [...] Kolowich, S. (2010) Highlighting e-Readers Inside Higher Education, February 23 Reports are now in from three universities with student feedback on the use of the Kindle for teaching and learning. No real surprises here – the Kindle doesn’t have features that many students need, but these will come, if not from Kindle then from competitors. And don’t [...] Kolowich, S. (2010) Online Cure for the Nursing Crisis Inside Higher Education February 2 A report released last month from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching asserted that all working nurses should be required to hold a bachelor’s degree in the field. As a result, a large spike in online degree programs for nurses [...] Kolowich, S. (2010) Blasting academic silos Inside Higher Education, January 18 An article criticising ’strong’, independent faculties or departments, in terms of both research and IT efficiencies. The growing importance of shared databases for research comes out clearly in this article. However, don’t hold your breath – in large research universities, the decentralized model of faculty or [...] Shepherd, J. (2010) Cash-starved universities will have huge classes, says union, The Guardian, January 12 It’s only twelve days into January, and there is already evidence for one of my fears for 2010 that I predicted in Great expectations for e-learning in 2010. Britain, with a massive debt due to economic stimulus and a ballooning annual deficit [...] |
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