By Tony Bates, on November 14th, 2009
Terris, B. (2009) University Uses ‘Clickers’ to Quiz Students in Multiple Location Chronicle of Higher Education, September 14
The University of British Columbia recently completed a trial of a new satellite polling system by i>clicker, which sells student-response systems. The new system allowed students on three campuses, all part of the university’s Distributed Undergraduate [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 5th, 2009
This blog is prompted by an e-mail from Rich Zuc, who wanted to know why there were no undergraduate degrees in engineering offered at a distance. With his permission, his letter is reproduced below, with my answers.
Rich wrote:
I am a resident of Hamilton Ontario and I am interested in online [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 11th, 2009
eLearning Africa (2009) ‘eLearning Helps to Promote Ethics in Medical Research’ eLearning Africa newsletter, Feb, No. 3
TRREE for Africa is a capacity-building initiative on the ethics of research involving humans that is conducted in African countries. TRREE provides basic web-based training on all issues that concern medical ethics.
Until now, the project group, [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 14th, 2009
The latest edition of Innovate, an online journal focusing on virtual worlds, is now available.
In the opening article, ‘Hacking Say and Reviving Eliza’, Rochelle Mazar and Jason Nolan argue that as text-based predecessors to graphical virtual environments like Second Life, MOOs can offer educators important insights on managing virtual communities to create rich, meaningful [...]
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