By Tony Bates, on August 16th, 2010
Schaffhauser, D. (2010) Cultural Shift at a Community College: E-Portfolios Go Campuswide Campus Technology, August 12
This article on an excellent e-portfolio implementation strategy at a two year college in Farmington, Connecticut, is more about change management than e-portfolios. If you are trying to get faculty buy-in to e-portfolios, this article is a good [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 20th, 2010
Smith Jaggars, S. and Bailey, T. (2010) Effectiveness of Fully Online Courses for College Students: Response to a Department of Education Meta-Analysis New York: Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University.
From the abstract:
Proponents of postsecondary online education were recently buoyed by a meta-analysis sponsored by the U.S. Department of [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 17th, 2010
© Paul Stacey, 2010
Stacey, P. (2010) Archtecting EdTech Musings on the edtech frontier, June 7
Paul Stacey gave a fascinating presentation at the ETUG conference in Victoria last week, based on the blog above. Paul ‘thought it might be interesting to map out some of the major structural [...]
By Tony Bates, on May 28th, 2010
I don’t normally focus on IT issues, but there is an interesting interview in Academic Impressions with George Spencer, entitled Positioning IT as a Strategic Partner on Campus, where among other things he recommends CIOs spend more time working with faculty and learning technology spending units to help them improve learning outcomes than on [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 25th, 2010
Bradmore, D. and Smyrnios, K. (2009) ‘The writing on the wall: responses of Australian public universities to competition in global higher education’ Higher Education Research & Development Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 495 – 508
Keith Hampson does an excellent critique of this argument in his Higher Education Management Group blog.
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