By Tony Bates, on July 9th, 2010
Miller, B. (2010) The Course of Innovation: Using Technology to Transform Higher Education Washington DC: EducationSector
Batson, T. (2010) Innovation in Higher Education: It’s Not the Technology Campus Technology, June 2
There is an increasing awareness that for technology to be used effectively, there has to be changes in the way people work. This [...]
By Tony Bates, on April 14th, 2010
Bound, J., Lovenheim, M. and Turner, S. (2010) Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States Cambridge MA: National Bureau of Economic Research
This paper answers two important questions: Is it taking students longer these days to graduate at the bachelor’s level? And if so, why?
The answer: yes, more students today are [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 21st, 2010
Trucano, M. (2010) ICT & Education: Eleven Countries to Watch — and Learn From EduTech, January 29
EduTech is a World Bank Blog on ICT use in education. Trucano excludes North America, Western Europe and Australia, as much is already known about these countries (see for instance the excellent Re.Vica wiki). Instead, he focuses [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 20th, 2010
Student computer lab, Soshanguve Campus, Tshwane University of Technology
My review of the Tapscott and Williams article prompted this response from Ms Mandi Maodzwa-Taruvinga who is teaching in the School of Education, the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Mandi is also a Ph.D student within the Wits School of Education. Here in full [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 13th, 2010
Fusch, D. (2010) An innovation in learning games Academic Impressions March 11
This is a report of a ‘minimal technology’ approach to using games in the teaching of Latin by Roger Travis, associate professor of classics and director of the video games and human values initiative at the University of Connecticut. The article contains [...]
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