Using clickers on multiple sites in a distributed undergraduate medical program

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 [...]

Can you teach ‘real’ engineering at a distance?

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 [...]

Promoting Ethics in Medical Research in Africa

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, [...]

Latest edition of Innovate now available

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 [...]