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e-learning outlook for 2012: will it be a rough ride?

© Firehorse Blog, 2012 Another year, and online learning, e-learning, learning technologies, educational technologies, digital learning, or whatever you call it or them, will continue...

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...

Journal of Learning Design: Vol. 4, No. 4, 2011

The latest edition of the Journal of Learning Design is now available. From the editorial: This issue presents six papers from a wide range of disciplines...

Journal edition on distance education and e-learning in Africa

  Distance Education, Vol. 32, No. 2, August 2011 This edition, edited by Neil Butcher, Colin Latchem, Monica Mawayo and Lisbeth Levey, is focused on distance...

Online search versus $168 textbook

Schaffhauser, D. (2011) Student Research: Can Googling Replace $168 Intro to Psych Textbook? Campus Technology, February 16 11 University of Cincinnati seniors in the psychology...

Innovative e-learning in the Vancouver area

I worry about the often negative tone of many of my posts. It was therefore a great pleasure to attend the joint Justice Institute...

Book: Online learning and assessment in higher education

Benson, R. and Brack, C. (2010) Online Learning and Assessment in Higher Education Cawston UK: Woodhead Publishing This book can be ordered by fax or...

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...

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...

When online learning fails

Figlio, D., Rush, N. and Yin, L. (2010) Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on...