Important developments in online learning in India in 2012
In my e-Learning Outlook for 2012 published on January 2 in 2012 I wrote:
Watch India
.....there are several reasons behind this prediction:
the Indian government’s decision to subsidize...
OER and social inclusion: review of special edition of ‘Distance Education’
Distance Education, the journal of the Australian Open and Distance Learning Association (ODLAA), has just published a special edition on OER and social inclusion....
What’s right and what’s wrong about Coursera-style MOOCs
TED Talks: Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education
Daphne Koller, one of the two founders of Coursera, describes some of the key features...
Nine steps to quality online learning: Step 8: Communicate, communicate, communicate
© Care2, 2012In this post I stress the importance of ongoing, continuing communication between instructor and students in an online environment, and in particular...
New resources for online educators from Contact North
Over the last few months, Contact North has been gradually adding an impressive range of online resources to its Educator Portal. As well as the numerous articles...
Posts from a foreign land: Online Educa 2011, No. 2: Corporate Learning ( #oeb11...
Introduction
I realise that there's only one thing more 'dead' than yesterday's newspaper and that's yesterday's conference, so I apologise for the gap of two...
European report on the future of learning
Redecker, C. et al. (2011) The Future of Learning: Preparing for Change Seville Spain: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, JRC, European Commission
What the report...
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...
CIDER Webinar on online teacher presence
The next presentation in the fall series of free online CIDER sessions features a presentation and discussion with Dr. Tannis Morgan.
Title: Negotiating Teaching Presence:...
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...