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Who has the richest professors? Canada!?

Jaschik, S. (2012) Faculty Pay, Around the World, Inside Higher Education, March 22 Philip Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Maria Yudkevich, Gregory Androushchak, Iván Pacheco (in press) Paying...

A project using e-readers in Africa

Trucano, M. (2012) An update on the use of e-readers in Africa EduTech, March 16 Michael Trucano's excellent World Bank blog here reports on the use...

South Koreans extensive users of e-learning

  Sang Yoon Shin (2011) Smart Education in Korea: South Korea’s Making the Switch to Digital Textbooks Advanced Technology Korea, October 10 Anon (2012) Over half South...

Survey on online learning in Africa

e-Learning Africa is requesting those involved in online learning in Africa to participate in a survey regarding the state of ICT-enhanced education and training in Africa. Here is...

European universities: re-form or die; but what about Canada?

Grove, J. (2012) Long, cold financial winter lies ahead for Europe's academy Times Higher Education, February 9 What's happening in Europe This is a really depressing,...

Australian universities to collaborate in online learning

  Lane, B. (2012) UNE and La Trobe hook up online, The Australian, February 20 Two Australian public universities, the University of New England in Armidale, NSW,...

Où sont les spécialistes francophones des OERs/REO?

Veuillez pardonner que j'écrisse le pauvre français - l'anglais suivit. UNESCO et le Commonwealth of Learning organisent un Forum Politique Africain au sujet des ressources...

Are cyber charter schools giving online learning a bad name?

This is at the moment a peculiarly United States of America debate, but it is almost certain to spill over into other countries. This...

Qatar’s e-learning success

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Gulf Times (2012) ictQATAR e-learning initiative receives tremendous response, February 9 Another interesting development from an Arabic country. Qatar (population 1.76 million) has 8,000 participants taking web-based...

Book review: Quality assurance in distance education and e-learning

Jung, I. and Latchem, C. (2012) Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Distance Education and e-Learning New York/London: Routledge What the book is about 'There is relatively...