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With Students Flocking Online, Will Faculty Follow?

Guess, A. (2008) 'With Students Flocking Online, Will Faculty Follow?' Inside Higher Education, Nov 18 This article discusses an issue rarely raised in the academic...

Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008

Allen, I. E. and Seaman, J. (2008) Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008 Needham MA: Sloan Consortiun The annual survey by...

Competing in a Global Economy Through Open Education

Michael King, Vice President, IBM Education Industry will be a keynote at Online Educa Berlin 2008. He will be speaking on the following...

World Economic Forum Global Advisory Council on Technology and Education

The World Economic Forum held its first Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai between 7-9 November, 2008. The summit was attended by over...

Increasing Access, the Online Way

Guess, A. (2008) Increasing access, the online way Inside Higher Education, Nov. 1 Another report from Andy Guess at the Educause 2008 conference, on an...

Distance Education and Academic Achievement in Business Administration: The case of the University of...

Edvardsson, I. and Oskarsson, K. (2008) Distance Education and Academic Achievement in Business Administration: The case of the University of Akureyri International Review of...

The Future of Higher Education: How Technology will Shape Learning

Economist Intelligence Unit (2008)  "The Future of Higher Education:  How Technology will Shape Learning" The NMC, in conjunction with the Economist Magazine and in collaboration...

Taking the Lead: Strategic Management for e-Learning

Higgins, A. and Prebble, T. (2008) Taking the Lead: Strategic Management for e-Learning Wellington, NZ: Ako Aotearoa (National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence) This report...

Teaching with wikis: addressing the digital divide

Samarawickrema, G., Benson, R. and Brack, C. (2008) 'Teaching with wikis: addressing the digital divide' in Whitton, N., and McPherson, M. (Eds) Rethinking the...

Open educational resources (OER)

Whatever happened to learning objects? Well, they've been replaced (or rather swallowed up) by open educational resources. Increasingly, more and more institutions are making...