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Guest post: How Online Learning Compares with the Classroom

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My site gets visited by a large number of students or potential students (one of the most active posts is 'Recommended graduate programs in...

How higher education policy really works: a Canadian example

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First of all, apologies for the interruption to normal service over the last month. I was on a tight deadline to finish revisions to...

How the Federal government can improve university teaching at (almost) no cost

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The challenge In our study of 11 institutions trying to implement technology for teaching, Albert Sangra and I found over and over again that most...

Open content and the costs of online learning

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I've been doing some analysis recently of the costs of a fully online master's degree program from a major research university (which for the...

Hope and despair: managing technological change

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In a very funny low budget British movie called 'Clockwise', John Cleese plays a school principal with an obsession about punctuality who is asked...

Reflections on demographics, video-conferencing and aboriginal distance education

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I apologise for the lack of postings this past week. I have been on the road, visiting the University of Saskatchewan in central Canada...

Back from holiday

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My wife and I have just spent one great week in Spain with friends, and another good week with family in England. For the...

World University Rankings: A reality based on a fraud

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I am still seething with outrage at the methodology used by the THES World University Rankings. Under a headline 'University rankings key tool in recruiting...

Reforming the university: evolution or revolution?

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Who will bring about change? In reviewing Ehlers and Schneckenberg's 'Changing Cultures in Higher Education', I began to wonder if or how the modern university...

Aggregated resources on online learning and the visually impaired

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(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...