Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Incorporating Google Apps with Blackboard

1
eSchool News (2009) Blackboard works on Google integration, eSchool News, November 3 A report of work at Northwestern University to provide an open-source integration of...

Call for action on open education from NMC and the Open University of Catalonia

0
A communiqué has just been released about the outcome of the Open Ed Tech conference held jointly by NMC and UOC in Barcelona October...

Using LMSs to identify 'at-risk' students

1
Kolowich, S. (2009) The new diagnostics, Inside Higher Education, September 30 An article about three institutions, Rio Salado Community College, Purdue University, and Capella University,...

JISC analysis of global activity in e-learning in higher education

0
MindSet Research (2009) Understanding Global Activity in Higher Education and Research: Primary, desk and web-based research Bristol UK: JISC This study was commissioned by the...

What technology students have this year

1
Smith, S., Salaway, G., and Caruso, J. The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009—Key Findings Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied...

LMS wars: e-learning’s third phase

1
Kolowich, S. (2009) E-Learning's Third Phase Inside Higher Education, September 27 An article about new players in the learning management system field. However, I don't...

Cloud computing at the University System of Ohio

0
Fingerhut, E. (2009) Ohio Takes to the Clouds Campus Technology, October 22 Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut provides a personal account of the perceived benefits in...

Learning English via games on cell-phones in rural India

4
Simmi Aujla (2009)  In Rural India, Learning English via Cellphone Chronicle of Higher Education, October 21 A project based at Carnegie Mellon University will study...

Useful sources on mobile learning

0
The Ontario Educator Meetup has a useful reading list on mobile learning, mainly web posts about mobile learning in schools. Thanks again to Richard Elliott's...

Free book on mobile learning in higher education

1
Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (editors), (2009) New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education, Wollongong, Australia:...