Friday, March 29, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Where did distance education go wrong?

Baggaley, J. (2008) Where did distance education go wrong? Distance Education, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 39-51 An interesting and stimulating discussion about the failure...

A Contribution to the Hellenic Open University: Evaluation of the pedagogical practices and the...

Gerasimos Koustourakis, Chris Panagiotakopoulos and Dimitris Vergidis (2008) A Contribution to the Hellenic Open University: Evaluation of the pedagogical practices and the use of...

Distance Education and Corporate Training in Brazil: Regulations and Interrelationships

This month's featured publication. This is an excellent account of distance education developments in Brazil, and raises important questions about the role of government...

Technology, e-Learning and Distance Education

Bates, A. (2005) Technology, e-Learning and Distance Education London/New York: Routledge

The development of new organizational arrangements in virtual learning

Dirr, P. (2001) ‘The development of new organizational arrangements in virtual learning’ in Farrell, G. (ed.) The Changing Faces of Virtual Education Vancouver, BC:...

Avoiding the industrialization of research universities: Big and little distance education

Garrison, R. & Anderson, T. (1999). ‘Avoiding the industrialization of research universities: Big and little distance education’. American Journal of Distance Education Vol.13, No....

Swiss Virtual Campus: Final Evaluation Report

Gertsch, M., Perellon, J. and Weber, K. (2004) Swiss Virtual Campus: Final Evaluation Report Berne, Switzerland: University of Berne Centre de la formation continue Gianetti,...

Corporate Universities: Lessons in Building a World Class Workforce

Meister, J. (1998) Corporate Universities: Lessons in Building a World Class Workforce New York: McGraw Hill

Virtual Models of European Universities

PLS Ramboll Management (2004) Virtual Models of European Universities Aarhus, Denmark: PLS Ramboll Management A/S/European Commission DG Education and Culture

Web 2.0 And Independent Learning

Everyone is getting excited about the new Web 2.0 tools for education (see, for instance, Stephen Downes on e-Learning 2.0.   Indeed, so am...