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 July 26th, 2010
Hong Kong
Recently the Open University of Hong Kong launched its free digital platform called ‘Open Learning ‘.
‘Open Learning gathers together a wealth of audio-visual educational materials and courseware unit covering a broad range of subject areas…There are TV programmes produced by the University’s Educational Technology and [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 20th, 2010
The context
OK, I’m not James Stewart, and it wasn’t Washington, and this posting’s a little late, due to other things, but this is a report on my presentation to the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology on June 9.
The committee was studying access to post‑secondary [...]
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 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’ [...]
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