Decentralizing distance education

Kolowich, S. (2010) Texas kills its Telecampus Inside Higher Education, April 9

This is one of those blogs I probably shouldn’t write, but what the hell.

When I read this article, which is about the closure of the University of Texas central online distance education unit, I had a real sense of déjà vu. [...]

A personal view of e-learning at the University of British Columbia

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’ [...]

Using clickers on multiple sites in a distributed undergraduate medical program

Terris, B. (2009) University Uses ‘Clickers’ to Quiz Students in Multiple Location Chronicle of Higher Education, September 14

The University of British Columbia recently completed a trial of a new satellite polling system by i>clicker, which sells student-response systems. The new system allowed students on three campuses, all part of the university’s Distributed Undergraduate [...]

Report on Open Education Conmference, Vancouver, August

Wong, M. and Hayes, L. (2009) Amazing stories of open-ness – learning to share with Open Ed UBC e-Strategy Update, September

The International Open Education Conference was held in Vancouver at UBC Robson Square from August 12th to 14th. The conference focused on many topics connected to open education. This article provides an excellent [...]

Online game on academic integrity and plagiarism

For some fun go to University of British Columbia’s Library’s Academic Integrity Resource Centre site and click on the ‘stage’ icon on the right of the screen. It’s a ‘wizard’ way to teach students about academic integrity! (Or is it?).

Comments, please.

Thanks to Natasha Boskic for sending this to me.