By Tony Bates, on January 1st, 2010
Diego Leal, a visitor from Colombia to the Open Education Conference in Vancouver in August, made a series of short (2 minute) video interviews, asking the following two questions: First, is education relevant? Second: If so, how can we make it more relevant?
The following were brave (or foolish) enough to answer this off the cuff [...]
By Tony Bates, on December 6th, 2009
Lederman, D. (2009) The business of higher education Inside Higher Education, December 2
An interview with the authors of a new book:
Knapp, J. and Siegel, D. (2009) The Business of Higher Education Santa Barbara CA: Praeger
The book appears to raise some important issues about cost-effectiveness and what lessons may (or may not) be learned from business. [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 30th, 2009
Lederman, D. (2009) Catching Up to Canada Inside Higher Education, November 6
An interesting article discussing the different participation and graduation rates between Canada and the USA. Don’t be fooled by the article’s title; it is much more complicated than the US catching up.
One factor that [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 10th, 2009
Lopes, V. (2008) Course Management Systems and Campus-Based Learning North York ON: Seneca College
One of the rare research reports that looks at the use of a learning management system for campus-based teaching, and its impact on students’ learning.
The main finding was that faculty used the LMS mainly for providing course information, and very little for [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 28th, 2009
Lederman, D. (2009) The Ever-expanding University of Phoenix Inside Higher Education, September 28
The Apollo Group, reported its fourth quarter and annual earnings Tuesday. It announced that the university’s enrollment of degree-seeking students grew to 443,000 as of August 2009, up 22 percent from 362,000 in August 2008. This makes it larger than the whole of [...]
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