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 17th, 2010
Mea culpa, but in the preparations for the holiday season, I let slide by my report on the publication of the latest edition (Vol. 10, No. 6) of the always excellent International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. The December edition includes articles on the following:
Rory McGreal’s evaluation of the Commonwealth of Learning’s [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 5th, 2009
Latchem, C. and Jung, I. (2010) Distance and blended learning in Asia New York/London: Routledge
Hong Kong
Overview
This is one of the best books I have read recently on distance education and has lots of good material on e-learning in Asia, as well. It casts its net amazingly wide, from Turkey and Syria in the west [...]
By Tony Bates, on September 12th, 2009
For those of you who, like me, were busy over the summer, the latest edition of IRRODL (Vol. 10, No. 3) was published in June.
As Terry Anderson, the editor, pointed out,
‘it is the largest single issue ever published by IRRODL! The issue contains fourteen peer-reviewed research articles, two technical reports, and links to [...]
By Tony Bates, on September 9th, 2009
The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research has issued the following call for proposals:
I. Editorial Team
• Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine
• Celia Pearce, Georgia Tech University
• Dmitri Williams, University of Southern California
• Thomas Malaby, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• Elizabeth Dean, RTI
• Tracy Tuten, East Carolina University
II. Call for Proposals
The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research announces [...]
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