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Kolowich, S. (2010) Blinding technology of online learning Inside Higher Education, August 23 In this excellent article, Steve Kolowich examines some of the issues around access to online learning for blind or visually impaired learners. In the USA, this is threatening to become a big issue if Federal legislators decide to apply to online [...] Kolowich, S. (2010) Whither wikis? Inside Higher Education, July 14 This article takes a broad look at the use of wikis, particularly for academic scholarship/research, compared with student applications, and asks why greater use has not been made of wikis by faculty for this purpose. One reason seems to be the relative anonymity of [...] Kolowich, S. (2010) Blackboard’s big buy Inside Higher Education, July 8 This article leaves me as depressed as a Netherlands soccer supporter. Elluminate follows another Canadian product (WebCT) into Blackboard’s maws, and Wimba as well. I’ve deliberately waited a few days before commenting on this, because my immediate reaction was unprintable. At the end [...] Kolowich, S. (2010) Avatars to teach the teachers Inside Higher Education, July 7 An article about a really interesting project, TeachME, by faculty in the University of Central Florida’s college of education to use avatars of students, based on four main adolescent student personality types, to train pre-service teachers. The avatars are not automated, [...] It’s funny how reports on the same issue arrive from completely different directions. These four all deal with the issue of innovation and higher education. Baker, S. (2010) Hefce gives out extra places and takes back £20m from teaching funds Times Higher Education, June 25 Calhoun, T. (2010) Re-imagining Higher Education, Post-Recession SCUP Links [...] |
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