Can you move classroom courses online quickly and cheaply?

In a previous post, Will lecture capture replace asynchronous distance learning, I wrote:

I come from a background where distance education courses are specifically re-designed for distance learners. In particular, they are designed to allow students to interact with instructor and other students any time and anywhere. They are designed to [...]

Will lecture capture replace asynchronous distance learning?

Harrison, D. (2010) Lecture capture helps Riverside meet nursing demand Campus Technology, March 10

From the article:

What do you do when 500 applicants are competing for 60 seats in your two-year nursing program? That’s just what happened at Southern California’s Riverside Community College. Administrators there didn’t just want to turn those students [...]

The state of e-learning 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, [...]

Video use and higher education

Kaufman, P. and Mohan, J. (2009) Video use and higher education New York: Intelligent Television

This report, undertaken by Intelligent Television and the Copyright Clearance Center, ‘takes a careful look specifically at video use in higher education and takes stock of trends in teaching and learning at the university level.’

Executive summary:

In interviews with 57 faculty and [...]

A review of lecture capture systems

Ramaswami, R. (2009) Instant capture Campus Technology, June 1

If your instructors are interested in students being able to record and replay their lectures, this article provides a good overview of the current systems available (2009).

However, as I have said in other posts (Laptops in lectures, More on laptops in lectures), I question the assumption of [...]