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 generation of [...]
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’ invitation for [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 23rd, 2010
Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium
The New Media Consortium’s annual report on emerging technologies is out. It follows previous formats in identifying six technologies over three time periods. This year the authors picked the following:
One year or less
mobile computing
open content
Two to [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 15th, 2010
Schaffhauser, D. (2010) U Arizona Team Seeks To Construct International Internet Classroom Campus Technology, January 6
Although this is an interesting and worthwhile project, I’m not sure how unique it is. I was under the impression that quite a number of schools in the USA were involved with schools in other countries in collaborative projects over [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 23rd, 2009
David Wiley has posted a blog where he attempts to define what open content means:
Wiley, D. (2009) Defining ‘open’ Iterating towards openness, November 16.
Wiley defines four characteristics of open content – the 4Rs – and the discussion following the blog is also interesting.
Thanks to Burkard Lehmann for directing me to this.
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