Why learning management systems are not going away
Contact North has just published online a series of six short papers (10-12 pages) under the title of Learning Management Systems: Disruptive Developments, Alternative Options...
5 video case studies of e-portfolio implementation + an implementation toolkit
JISC has created a site with videos from five UK universities and colleges that document their experience in implementing e-portfolios across a relatively wide...
Another step towards open-ness from Stanford professors – but not the university
Kolowich, S. (2011) Opencourseware 2.0 Inside Higher Education, December 13
In my retrospective for e-learning in 2011, I complained that merely making content open to...
Review of Distance Education, Vol. 32, No. 3
Oh, dear, more reading! The latest edition of the journal, Distance Education, the official journal of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, is...
Book review: Clark Quinn’s ‘The Mobile Academy’
Quinn, C. (2012) The Mobile Academy: mLearning for Higher Education San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 120 pp
The author points out that 90% of the world's...
Book review: Ross Paul’s ‘Leadership Under Fire’
15 Canadian university presidents en route for India, 2011
Paul, R. (2011) Leadership Under Fire: The Challenging Role of the Canadian University President Montreal &...
Use of e-portfolios by migrants
CHECKpoint eLearning (2011) Migrants to Australia Embrace e-Portfolios CHECKpoint eLearning September
News about the use of e-portfolios for migrants in Australia, building on the Australian Flexible...
About Mozilla Badges
© The Tree Maker, 2011
I'm currently on holiday so shouldn't even be logging on, but I want to capture an important development that needs...
Book: Managing Technology in Higher Education now available
Bates, A. and Sangrà, A. (2011) Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Co.
Now out!...
New journal on e-portfolios
Virginia Tech’s Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research (CIDER - not to be mistaken with the much more famous Canadian Institute of Distance...