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Strategic management for e-learning: a New Zealand study

Higgins, A., Prebble, T. and Suddaby, S. (2008) Taking the Lead: Strategic Management for e-Learning Wellington NZ: Ministry of Education/Aotearoa, National Centre for Tertiary...

Can web 2.0 tools be legally used for education in Canada?

I raise this as a result of an interesting question from Ron Richard,of Meritus University, Canada. Ron asked Tony Vincent, who runs the excellent...

A personal view of e-learning at the University of British Columbia

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (home of OLT) It's now seven years since I resigned as Director of Distance Education and Technology at UBC,...

Libraries wade into the Google Books debate

Kolowich, S. (2009) Eye on Google Inside Higher Education, December 18 More concerns about Google becoming the master of the digital universe. The article describes...

New book on ICTs in higher education

Guri-Rosenblit, S. (2009) Digital Technologies in Higher Education: Sweeping Expectations and Actual Effects Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers From the publisher's synopsis: The visible gap between...

Integrating e-learning in African universities

Last week I participated in a three day workshop in Bonn, Germany, for senior African higher education leaders on Integrating e-Learning: Key Challenge for...

Feds want Google to rewrite book deal

eSchool News (2009) Feds want Google to rewrite book deal eSchool News, Sept 21 The U.S. Justice Department advised a federal judge on Sept. 18...

Report on Open Education Conference, Vancouver, August

Wong, M. and Hayes, L. (2009) Amazing stories of open-ness - learning to share with Open Ed UBC e-Strategy Update, September The International Open Education...

Google Books Settlement deadline and discussion

Kolowich, S. (2009) Speak now or forever hold your copyrights Inside Higher Education, Sept 4 Like many other authors, I have been grappling with how...

Submissions for new Canadian copyright law

Canadian Network for Innovation and Education (2009) Canadian Copyright Electronic Submission Ottawa: CNIE The Canadian Federal Government is planning to introduce new copyright laws, and...