By Tony Bates, on July 28th, 2010
Casa Batllo, Barcelona; Photo © Tony Bates, 2006
November 2-4, 2010, the seventh annual Open Education Conference moves to Barcelona for its first convening outside of North America! The 2010 conference venue is CosmoCaixa, designated Europe’s best science museum in 2006.
The conference theme for 2010 is OER: Impact and [...]
By Tony Bates, on May 22nd, 2010
The South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) has published its latest newsletter. Two articles caught my eye.
Mhlanga, E. (2010) SOFIE (Strengthening Open and Flexible Learning for Increased Education) Project Findings SAIDE Newsletter, Vol. 16, No. 2
The aim of this study was to increase access to education and learning for young people [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 31st, 2010
The news portal for the eLearning Africa 2010 conference in Lusaka, Zambia, between May 26-28 has the following news items about presentations to be made at the conference:
Haggards, S. (2010) African Digital Diaries – Portraits of Ad Hoc eLearning in Africa, eLearning Africa 2010 News Portal, March 31
This is a podcast about [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 3rd, 2010
Johansen J. (2009) The Impact of Opencourseware on Paid Enrollment in Distance Learning Courses Salt Lake City UT: Brigham Young University
This is a Ph.D. thesis about the cost of converting online distance learning courses to OCW, the impact of opening these courses on paid enrollments, and the long-term sustainability of OCW through the [...]
By Tony Bates, on December 12th, 2009
SAIDE (2009) SAIDE Launches Policy on Open Educational Resources (OER)
OER Africa has now been adopted as a SAIDE (South African Association of Distance Education) ‘brand’, which comes to incorporate all of SAIDE’s OER-related activities. This will serve to ensure that there is no confusion beyond SAIDE about the relationship between the two, while [...]
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