NMC Horizon Report on new learning technologies for Latin America
The 2010 Horizon Report: Edición Iberoamericana, a Spanish language edition, is the result of a collaboration between the NMC and the Open University of...
Free new guide to teaching at a distance from South Africa
The South African Institute of Distance Education has developed a new guide for adjunct instructors supporting learners at a distance (called tutors outside North...
Towards a national framework for degrees?
Lederman, D. (2010) Borrowing from Bologna? Inside Higher Education, September 13
This is a report of an interesting initiative by the Lumina Foundation in the...
International comparisons in higher education: the OECD’s Education at a Glance
OECD (2010) Education at a Glance 2010 Paris: OECD
The OECD has brought out its annual 'Education at a Glance Report', which provides data from...
Book review: Changing Cultures in Higher Education
Ehlers, U-D. and Schneckenberg, D. (eds. ) Changing Cultures in Higher Education: Moving Ahead to Future Learning Heidelberg/London/New York: Springer, 610 pp, US$129.00
What the...
Distance Education and Mobile Learning
The Australian-based Distance Education journal has just brought out a special edition on distance education and mobile learning.
The articles between them provide a good...
Rapid growth forecast in ICTs in BRIC countries + Indonesia
Boston Consulting Group (2010) The Internet’s New Billion: Digital Consumers in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Indonesia Boston MA: Boston Consulting Group. You can...
A challenge to new Canadian copyright law
Valiente, G. (2010) New copyright law hits opposition Canada.com, August 23
'Last week, the Canadian Association of University Teachers and the Canadian Federation...
Ontario students’ vision for the Ontario Online Institute
Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (2010) The Ontario Online Institute: Students' Vision for Opening Ontario's Classrooms Toronto ON: OUSA
OUSA have produced a superb document outlining...
The state of mobile phone learning in Africa
Talent Ng’andwe (2010) Mobile Phone Learning on the Move in Africa, e-Learning Africa News Portal, June 28
From the article:
By 2009, about one third of...