Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Main findings from the 2010 Campus Computing Project

Green, K. C. (2010) Managing Online Education, Encino CA: The Campus Computing Project,/WCET Kolowich, S. (2010) Internal barriers to online expansion, Inside Higher Education, November...

Comparing Chinese and British HE systems through their distance teaching universities

Wei, Runfang (2008) China's Radio and TV Universities and the British Open University: A Comparative Study Nanjing China: Yilin Press This has been sitting on...

Data analytics and online learning

Business intelligence data display: Oracle Inc. Kolowich, S. (2010) Technology and the completion agenda Inside Higher Education, November 9 This article highlights what I...

Hope and despair: managing technological change

In a very funny low budget British movie called 'Clockwise', John Cleese plays a school principal with an obsession about punctuality who is asked...

Reflections on demographics, video-conferencing and aboriginal distance education

I apologise for the lack of postings this past week. I have been on the road, visiting the University of Saskatchewan in central Canada...

Book review: Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Christensen Hughes, J. and Mighty, J. (eds.) (2010) Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Montreal QC and Kingston ON: McGill-Queen's...

Reforming the university: evolution or revolution?

Who will bring about change? In reviewing Ehlers and Schneckenberg's 'Changing Cultures in Higher Education', I began to wonder if or how the modern university...

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...

Cheating in online learning

Academic Impressions is one of my main sources of news on e-learning and educational developments. The editor, Daniel Fusch occasionally does interviews with experts...

Designing campuses for e-learning

McCrea, B. (2010) Remaking the College Campus Campus Technology, August 5 This article focuses on Glasgow Caledonian University's Saltire Centre, the centerpiece of learning and...