Wikis and academic scholarship
Kolowich, S. (2010) Whither wikis? Inside Higher Education, July 14
This article takes a broad look at the use of wikis, particularly for academic scholarship/research,...
Another view on research for the Ontario Online Institute
Maxim Jean-Louis, the President of Contact North, was one of the participants in the recent HEQCO meeting to discuss possible areas of research that...
Blackboard acquires Elluminate and Wimba: the end of LMSs?
Kolowich, S. (2010) Blackboard's big buy Inside Higher Education, July 8
This article leaves me as depressed as a Netherlands soccer supporter. Elluminate follows another...
Simulating teacher training in a virtual world
Kolowich, S. (2010) Avatars to teach the teachers Inside Higher Education, July 7
An article about a really interesting project, TeachME, by faculty in the...
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...
Simulations in paramedical training
The Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) offers a range of applied and academic programs that span the spectrum of safety - from prevention...
Mobile learning in schools
I don't normally cover k-12 (too much extra work and not my area of expertise) but I liked this web site about St Marys...
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...
Do social media result in less sensitive people?
Science Daily (2010) Empathy: College students don't have as much as they used to, study finds Science Daily, May 29
Some people have bad hair...
The impact of digitization on the study of literature
Parry, M. (2010) The humanities go Google Chronicle of Higher Education, June 3
In 1959, a physicist and novelist at Cambridge University, C.P. Snow, argued...