Adjuncts, LMSs and lack of training: an accident waiting to happen?
The use of underpaid, untrained adjunct faculty is one of higher education's dirty little secrets, especially (but not only) in the USA. The two...
Book review: Clark Quinn’s ‘The Mobile Academy’
Quinn, C. (2012) The Mobile Academy: mLearning for Higher Education San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 120 pp
The author points out that 90% of the world's...
European report on the future of learning
Redecker, C. et al. (2011) The Future of Learning: Preparing for Change Seville Spain: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, JRC, European Commission
What the report...
Key points from OECD’s 2011 ‘Education at a Glance’
OECD (2011) Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators Paris: OECD
For those of you interested in educational statistics (and for masochists in general), here's your...
4. How to implement an e-learning plan
This is the last in a series of four posts on developing an e-learning plan. The first post discussed why an e-learning plan may be needed,...
Giving a Porsche to a 7 year old: Brits reject training
Grove, J. (2011) British Academics Reject Training, Times Higher Education Supplement, November 3
'Standardized teacher training for all new academics has been emphatically rejected by...
3. What should go into an e-learning plan
This is the third in a series of four posts on developing an e-learning plan. The first post discussed why an e-learning plan may be needed,...
Key mobile strategy issues
Fuhrman, T. (2011) Mobile strategy or moving target?, Campus Technology, November 1
This paper looks at five issues that need to be considered when developing...
2. How to do an e-learning plan
This is the second in a series of four posts on developing an e-learning plan. The first post discussed why an e-learning plan may...
1. Why you need an e-learning plan
This is the first of a series of four posts on e-learning plans. This post discusses why an e-learning plan is needed, the second...