Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative

By Tony Bates, on November 14th, 2009

Carter, D. (2009) Program goes beyond open course model eSchool News, September 16

Parry, M. (2009) Obama’s Great Course Giveaway Chronicle of Higher Education, August 3

These two articles discuss Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative, which takes open educational resources to the next level. Carnegie Mellon is making available to other institutions (mainly community colleges) specially [...]

November 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Featured, Teaching and learning, blended learning, course design, open content | One comment

The growth of local, blended online learning

By Tony Bates, on July 7th, 2009

Parry, M. (2009) They Thought Globally, but Now Colleges Push Online Programs Locally Chronicle of Higher Education, July 10

This article discusses how state-funded universities and colleges in the USA are using blended and online learning to keep or increase enrolments locally and fight off the growing challenge of private online institutions, with interesting consequences for [...]

July 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Featured, Strategies, planning and management, Teaching and learning, blended learning, futures, physical space, planning, policies and management - institutional | Leave a comment