Making online courses accessible to blind students
Parry, M. (2010) Colleges lock out blind students online Chronicle of Higher Education, December 17
'Colleges that wouldn't dare put up a new building without...
UNESCO signs mobile learning agreement
Somewhat late news, but still important for this interested in developing mobile learning applications for developing countries:
UNESCO and telecommunications company Nokia have recently signed...
Distance Education and Mobile Learning
The Australian-based Distance Education journal has just brought out a special edition on distance education and mobile learning.
The articles between them provide a good...
Rapid growth forecast in ICTs in BRIC countries + Indonesia
Boston Consulting Group (2010) The Internet’s New Billion: Digital Consumers in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Indonesia Boston MA: Boston Consulting Group. You can...
Aggregated resources on online learning and the visually impaired
(Updated, 21 April, 2021)
On August 23, 2010, I posted about online learning and students with disabilities. In the post, I asked readers for suggestions...
Online learning and students with disabilities
Kolowich, S. (2010) Blinding technology of online learning Inside Higher Education, August 23
In this excellent article, Steve Kolowich examines some of the issues around...
Mr Bates goes to Ottawa: or increasing access to post-secondary education
The context
OK, I'm not James Stewart, and it wasn't Washington, and this posting's a little late, due to other things, but this is a...
What should the Canadian government do to increase access to post-secondary education?
This is really a posting for Canadian readers, but we're not too proud to take suggestions from anywhere!
I have the honour of being invited...
SAIDE newletter on open and distance education in Africa
The South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) has published its latest newsletter. Two articles caught my eye.
Mhlanga, E. (2010) SOFIE (Strengthening Open and...
Canadian Internet Use, 2009
Statistics Canada (2010) Canadian Internet Use Survey Ottawa: Statistics Canada
From the report
In 2009, 80% of Canadians aged 16 and older, or 21.7 million people, used the Internet...