By Tony Bates, on March 1st, 2010
Clark, L. (2009) Plan e-Learning Australian Flexible Learning Network
This site provides comprehensive guidance and support for practitioners in planning and implementing e-learning (with a focus on vocational and technical education). It includes designs using web 2.0 tools as well as LMSs.
Thanks to Richard Elliott’s e-Learning Watch for directing me to this useful resource.
By Tony Bates, on December 18th, 2009
It’s that time of year again. Here’s a personal look back at e-learning in 2009 (I will do another blog on priorities for Canadian e-learning in 2010, and a third blog on international trends to watch in 2010).
What I did
This year I worked in Alberta, Cuba, Mexico, Germany, and Saudi Arabia, [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 28th, 2009
Parry, M. (2009) Online Programs: Profits Are There, Technological Innovation Is Not Chronicle of Higher Education, October 19
A news report of a study by the consulting firm Eduventures, “Benchmarking Online Operations: Snapshots of an Emerging Industry,” (not yet available as of November 28, 2009, except to Eduventures members).
From the Chronicle’s news report
Online education [...]
By Tony Bates, on September 2nd, 2009
Bosco, J. (2009) Web 2.0 in Education: Policy, Practice and Progress The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Washington, DC
One of two papers recently published by The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
From the Executive Summary:
From December 2008 to February 2009, CoSN conducted an online survey of school administrators to determine their perspective on
[Web [...]
By Tony Bates, on April 18th, 2009
Batson, T. (2009) Why is Web 2.0 Important to Higher Education? Campus Technology, April 15
An opinion piece that doesn’t say anything more (e.g. ‘the “traditional classroom” with one speaker and many listeners is now an oddity, a throwback, a form that should represent 15 percent of undergraduate interaction with faculty, not 85 percent as it [...]
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