By Tony Bates, on April 4th, 2010
For a very quick and preliminary review of possible educational uses or affordances of the Apple iPad, see Elliott Masie’s 10 minute video at: http://www.ipadlearninglab.com/ (Thanks to Clayton R. Wright for bringing this to my attention – from Sierra Leone!)
It would be a good idea to keep an eye on the Masie web [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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’ [...]
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, [...]
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