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e-learning outlook for 2012: will it be a rough ride?

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© Firehorse Blog, 2012 Another year, and online learning, e-learning, learning technologies, educational technologies, digital learning, or whatever you call it or them, will continue...

Another step towards open-ness from Stanford professors – but not the university

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Kolowich, S. (2011) Opencourseware 2.0 Inside Higher Education, December 13 In my retrospective for e-learning in 2011, I complained that merely making content open to...

A degree of open-ness: University of Texas offers online degree completion route

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Hamilton, R. (2011) UT System Launches Online Route to Degree Completion The Texas Tribune, December 13 I complained in my retrospective of e-learning for 2011 that...

Adjuncts, LMSs and lack of training: an accident waiting to happen?

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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...

Thinking about innovation in higher education

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Stokes, P. (2011) Want innovation? Remove the barriers Inside Higher Education, October 27 This article by Peter Stokes, an executive vice-president at Eduventures, has some...

Introducing the OERu – and some questions

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I've been following the development (at a distance) of the OERu, and here's my understanding of what it's trying to do. The OERu (the Open...

About Mozilla Badges

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© The Tree Maker, 2011 I'm currently on holiday so shouldn't even be logging on, but I want to capture an important development that needs...

State of Texas creates local Western Governors’ University

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Ludwig, M. (2011) Perry launches Texas online university Chron.com, August 3 The State of Texas has created its own online university through a partnership with...

NYU partners with University of the People

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  Lewin, T. (2011) Partnership to Further Global Quest by N.Y.U. New York Times, June 8 New York University, one of the most selective, elite private universities...

Quality assurance in e-learning: two developments

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Have you just seen Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and can't wait to get there? If you can get it organized in a week,...