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Why college education costs so much in the USA

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Archibald, R. and Feldman, D. (2010) Why does college cost so much? Forbes, August 11 If you can fight your way past the really annoying...

Another review of DIY U

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Norris, D. (2010) Book review: DIY U Planning for Higher Education Planning for Higher Education, Vol. 38, No. 4 This is a comprehensive review of...

Barriers to change: two perspectives

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Miller, B. (2010) The Course of Innovation: Using Technology to Transform Higher Education Washington DC: EducationSector Batson, T. (2010) Innovation in Higher Education: It’s Not...

The need for new business models for e-learning

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Keith Hampson's Higher Education Management Group's blog has an interesting post by Keith about the need for new business models in higher education, includes...

Innovate or die: a message for higher education institutions

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It's funny how reports on the same issue arrive from completely different directions. These four all deal with the issue of innovation and higher...

Preparing faculty for online teaching

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Dziuban, C. and Fusch, D. (2010) Training and Preparing Your Faculty for Teaching Online Academic Impressions, June 24 In this interview, Chuck Dziuban of the...

The link between e-learning and economic development: the case of New Brunswick

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This has been a busy week for me, which accounts for the low number of postings. Earlier in the week, I was conducting a...

An essay on the impact of the digital age on scholarship and institutions

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Katz, R. (2010) Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Digital Age Educause Review, Vol. 45. No. 2, pp. 44-56 It is always interesting...

Where do the resources for technology-based teaching come from?

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In an earlier blog, Struggling with Costs of Teaching in Higher Education, I complained about the lack of research into the costs of teaching,...

A marketer’s view of higher education in the USA

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For those of you not familiar with Seth Godin's excellent blog on marketing, take a look at his latest blog: The coming melt-down in higher...