By Tony Bates, on February 19th, 2010
McCrea, B. (2010) Getting face-to-face with distance education Campus Technology, February 17.
Another really interesting article. If online teaching has a ‘birth’, it was at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the late 1970s, when Murray Turoff and Roxanne Hiltz started experimenting with collaborative learning for classroom based students but using the Internet (see Hiltz, [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 9th, 2010
McCrea, B. (2010) Shifting campus IT priorities Campus Technology, February 4
This article looks at how Purdue University’s “renewed” strategic plan would focus on improving IT operations, including a reevaluation of the school’s IT governance structure and an expansion of its strategic sourcing efforts. This article is interesting because it focuses on how to move from [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 8th, 2010
Thanks to Natasha Boskic for this:
Amazon.com has published a list of Bestsellers in Video Games for 2009.
Jamie Madigan published an interesting article on her blog, “Phat Loot and Neurotransmitters in World of Warcraft”, about psychological effects of games, using World of Warcraft as an example. Her whole blog is an attempt to understand why we [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 29th, 2010
© Rural Internet Kiosks Project
Kyama, R. and Mwaura, N. (2010) Rural Internet Kiosks Herald Last Frontier in Bridging Africa’s Digital Divide e-Learning Africa News Service, No. 3, January 28
From the article:
Rural Internet Kiosks are currently mushrooming throughout rural areas in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and Zambia, [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 27th, 2010
McCrea, B. (2010) Pioneering mobile learning Campus Technology, January 27
If you can get past the really irritating Blackboard advertisement that blocks the whole content on all articles in the online version of Campus Technology, this article contains a useful account of how Abilene Christian University is using mobile learning for ‘real’ teaching. It has built [...]
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