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2020 Vision: Outlook for online learning in 2014 and way beyond

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 Taking the long view Doug Saunders in the Globe and Mail on  January 4 wrote an interesting piece on prediction, entitled: "Gadgets alone don't make...

University of Florida Online launches first undergraduate programs this month

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Moran, C. (2013) UF expands opportunities for four-year degrees UF News, September 27 State University System of Florida (2013) UF Online Comprehensive Business Plan, 2013-2019 Gainsville,...

The cost of being a student in Canada – and where to find online...

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vouchercloud is a Canadian discount coupon website and they have a selection of student specific coupons. They have produced the above infographic focusing on the cost of being a student in...

Productivity and online learning redux

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Summarizing the previous posts In previous posts (see end of this post), I tried to identify a range of areas where online learning might enable...

Productivity and online learning: an summary of the main concepts

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This is the first of two final posts in the series on whether online learning can increase educational ‘productivity.’ In this post I discuss...

Look back in anger? A review of online learning in 2013

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Well, where did 2013 go? It seems like only last week I was writing the 2012 review!This year, I did better with my predictions...

Leadership in open and distance education universities

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 The conference For 20 years, the Standing Committee of Presidents (SCOP) of the members of the International Council of Distance Education (ICDE) has provided a...

MOOCs, Norway, and the ecology of digital learning

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© Ron Niebrugge, 2013 MOOCs are just one species in the online digital forest - and a big and clumsy oneEarlier this week I...

Can online learning lead to productivity gains through savings on campus facilities?

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Apologies for the web site being down on November 10, due to a domain registration problem with CIRA which has now been resolved. This is...

Examining the potential and reality of open educational resources: the 2013 COHERE conference

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COHERE (Collaboration for Online Higher Education and Research) runs one of my favourite annual conferences. It is relatively small (around 75), the participants are...