By Tony Bates, on March 9th, 2010
Smith, C. (2009) Who Let This Disaster in My Classroom? Eugene OR: Resource Publications (http://wipfandstock.com)
Subtitled: A Practical Guide for Online Instructors and Some Funny Stories Along the Way.
I’m not normally a procrastinator, but I’ve been putting off writing a review of this book for some time. The reason of course is that I wasn’t sure [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 8th, 2010
Sherry, A. (2010) As for-profit colleges flourish, focus turns to grads’ success and debt Denver Post, January 17
A Denver Post examination of graduation rates, loans, default rates and other federal Department of Education data found that on many fronts, for-profit schools as a group underperform their public and nonprofit counterparts.
By Tony Bates, on February 25th, 2010
Siaciwena, R. (2010) Let’s Talk About Viability – Lessons Learned from SADC’s Open and Distance Learning Project e-Learning Africa, February 23
This is one of three postings about presentations to be made at the e-Learning Africa conference in Lusaka, Zambia, between May 26-29, 2010, THE conference for finding out how e-learning is developing in Africa.
By Tony Bates, on February 19th, 2010
McCrea, B. (2010) Getting face-to-face with distance education Campus Technology, February 17.
Another really interesting article. If online teaching has a ‘birth’, it was at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the late 1970s, when Murray Turoff and Roxanne Hiltz started experimenting with collaborative learning for classroom based students but using the Internet (see Hiltz, [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 10th, 2010
Schreurs, B. (ed.) (2010) Reviewing the Virtual Campus Phenomenon Heverlee Belgium: Europace
This book is essential reading for any student wishing to do research on e-learning. It provides a comprehensive analysis and discussion of the organization of online learning around the world.
The book is a result of an interesting process. It is really a report on [...]
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