By Tony Bates, on January 31st, 2010
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (home of OLT)
It’s now seven years since I resigned as Director of Distance Education and Technology at UBC, and my motto has always been ‘Never look back.’ However, two things came together to bring me back to UBC last week with a ‘formal’ invitation for [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 15th, 2010
Grush, M. (2010) BI Today: More than Just a Big, Fat Report Campus Technology, January 13
First a declaration of interest: my son is a senior designer/manager of business intelligence software for Oracle. However, I do believe that business intelligence software will become an increasingly important development in higher education, allowing all key decision-makers to analyse [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 5th, 2010
Parry, M. (2010) How to teach with Google Wave Chronicle of Higher Education, January 4
An article about the use of Google Wave by Ray Schroeder at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He has used Google Wave to link classes between Springfield and Sligo Institute of Technology, Ireland.
One interesting aspect is the possibility [...]
By Tony Bates, on December 18th, 2009
It’s that time of year again. Here’s a personal look back at e-learning in 2009 (I will do another blog on priorities for Canadian e-learning in 2010, and a third blog on international trends to watch in 2010).
What I did
This year I worked in Alberta, Cuba, Mexico, Germany, and Saudi Arabia, [...]
By Tony Bates, on December 18th, 2009
Carter, D. (2009) Blackboard, D2L declare truce eSchool News, December 17
The three-and-a-half-year court battle between learning management system (LMS) giant Blackboard Inc. and competitor Desire2Learn ended Dec. 15 when the companies agreed to license each other’s patents and drop long-standing lawsuits.
So does this mean that LMS wars are over? Not really. Both companies have lost [...]
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