The time factor in e-learning and assessment
First, it's a great pleasure to welcome a new e-learning journal from the e-Learn Research Centre at the Open University of Catalonia (where I...
Innovative e-learning in the Vancouver area
I worry about the often negative tone of many of my posts. It was therefore a great pleasure to attend the joint Justice Institute...
Barriers to open and distance learning as seen by ODL institutions
International Council for Open and Distance Education (2010) ICDE Policy Forum Report - Barriers and strategies for ODL Pretoria, South Africa: ICDE
This report from...
Hope and despair: managing technological change
In a very funny low budget British movie called 'Clockwise', John Cleese plays a school principal with an obsession about punctuality who is asked...
Reflections on demographics, video-conferencing and aboriginal distance education
I apologise for the lack of postings this past week. I have been on the road, visiting the University of Saskatchewan in central Canada...
When online learning fails
Figlio, D., Rush, N. and Yin, L. (2010) Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on...
E-learning simply explained: a video
The United Nations University has released what it calls a 'sticky concepts' video on e-learning.
From the UNU:
If you are a newbie in the field...
SAIDE newletter on open and distance education in Africa
The South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) has published its latest newsletter. Two articles caught my eye.
Mhlanga, E. (2010) SOFIE (Strengthening Open and...
Will elite universities offer online undergraduate degrees?
Young, J. (2010) U. of California Considers Online Classes, or Even Degrees Chronicle of Higher Education, May 9
This is a strange article that discusses...
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...