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A personal view of e-learning at the University of British Columbia

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The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (home of OLT) It's now seven years since I resigned as Director of Distance Education and Technology at UBC,...

Open resource on essay writing from the University of the South Pacific

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I dedicate this item to all those Canadians who are getting sick of snow and below zero temperatures in the middle of our winter. Established...

The Horizon 2010 report on emerging technologies for education

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Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium The New Media Consortium's annual...

‘Globalizing’ schools in the USA through technology

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Schaffhauser, D. (2010) U Arizona Team Seeks To Construct International Internet Classroom Campus Technology, January 6 Although this is an interesting and worthwhile project, I'm...

More on the Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative

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Kolowich, S. (2009) Hybrid education 2.0 Inside Higher Education, December 28 An interesting article that provides more information about the Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative,...

Reigning in costs with online learning

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Bassis, M. (2009) Reigning in college costs Businessweek, December 21 This is a useful article, from the President of Westminster College, Salt Lake City, to...

Great expectations for e-learning in 2010

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In the Globe and Mail on December 19, Leah McLaren wrote: 'We are living in an Era of Perpetual Advice - and almost none of...

Six priorities for Canadian e-learning in 2010

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Summary of my priorities 1. A requirement for all newly appointed full-time instructors in public Canadian post-secondary educational institutions to have a formal certification in...

The state of e-learning 2009

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It's that time of year again. Here's a personal look back at e-learning in 2009 (I will do another blog on priorities for Canadian...

New policy on OER in Africa

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SAIDE (2009) SAIDE Launches Policy on Open Educational Resources (OER) OER Africa has now been adopted as a SAIDE (South African Association of Distance Education)...