By Tony Bates, on March 9th, 2010
de Vise, D. (2010) Wide Web of diversions gets laptops evicted from lecture halls Washington Post March 9
An article about instructors who have banned the use of laptops in class, and why. I liked the comments by Professor Vaidhyanathan:
“If students don’t want to pay attention, the laptop is the least of your problems,” [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 14th, 2010
Tapscott, D. and Williams, A. (2010) Innovating the 21st century university: It’s Time Educause Review, Vol. 45, No. 1
First of all, thanks to both Burkhard Lehmann and Clayton Wright for directing me to this article. I had however seen it myself a couple of weeks ago, and have hesitated to respond to it, for reasons [...]
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 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 11th, 2009
Van Dusen, C. (2009) eSN Special Report: Beyond the Virtual School eSchool News, Nov 1
Because of the volume of stuff that comes through my portal, I don’t usually cover k-12 reports, but I’m including this one because it provides some excellent examples of what I like to call hybrid learning (reduced but not eliminated face-to-face [...]
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