Launch of Arabic e-learning portal for business education
© Tony Bates, 2012 Creative Commons License
Curley, N. (2012) Arabic e-Learning Portal Nibras.com Launches, Offering Online Business Education, Wamda, February 8
Jabbar Internet Group has launched...
Rice University develops free online physics textbooks
Smith, M. (2010) Why Pay for Intro Textbooks? Inside Higher Education, February 7
Rice University, using the Connexions platform, is offering online Introductory Physics textbooks...
Call for papers: law and virtual worlds
The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research has a call for papers for a special issue on law and virtual worlds:
This special issue will focus...
CVU’s report on the state of online university education in Canada: first heal thyself
Canadian Virtual University (2012) Online University Education in Canada: Challenges and Opportunities Athabasca University AB: Canadian Virtual University.
The report was commissioned by the Canadian Federal...
Worldwide mobile phone distribution
Daily Infographics (2012) The World of Mobile Phones, January 20
I'm posting this infographic, because the Canadian government is looking at changing the rules about...
Apple makes iBooks 2 and cheap textbooks available – but is this a good...
© MacWorld 2012
Apple today announced a new strategy for its educational market:
iBooks 2, a new, upgraded version of its iBook application, featuring iBooks textbooks....
The textbook of tomorrow
This very interesting graphic has been created by onlineeducation.net (and thanks Peter Kim for permission to re-use it here)
I would add one other functionality,...
Blackboard launches learning analytics pilot
Blackboard Inc. (2012) Blackboard opens field trial for learning analytics solution, Jan 10
From the press release:
Blackboard Inc. has partnered with several colleges and universities...
New technologies for e-learning in 2012 (and a little beyond)
In my e-learning outlook for 2012, I focused on mainly educational developments in e-learning during 2012. In this post, I want to look at...
Removing barriers to e-textbooks
Graydon, B., Urbach-Buholz, B., and Kohen, C. (2011) A Study of Four textbook Distribution Models Educause Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 4
Textbooks are a major...