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Tom Carey’s reflections on the HEQCO report on online learning and productivity: 1-Catching a teachable moment 27 Aug 2013 | 06:09 am
© Leblanc, P., EDUCAUSE, 2013 Carey, T., & Trick, D. (2013). How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the Literature. Toront...
A review of the HEQCO report on productivity and quality in online learning in higher education 21 Aug 2013 | 12:47 am
The view from HEQCO, Toronto Carey, T., & Trick, D. (2013). How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the Literature. Toronto...
What happened in online learning in the summer? – 3 20 Aug 2013 | 05:48 am
Egmont, BC An Ontario online university? I have a strict rule when reporting news to make sure it’s based on published secondary sources – in other words, if I get it wrong, I can blame someone else...
Commonwealth of Learning celebrates 25 years of operation 20 Aug 2013 | 04:03 am
CoL’s lifelong learning for farmers project Kanwar, A. (2013) Celebrating COL’s 25th Anniversary Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning I had the privilege of attending COL’s Board of Governors Recepti...
What happened in online learning over the summer? – 2 20 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am
English Bay Vancouver This is the second summary post of some newsworthy items that happened over mainly July and August. MOOCs Peters, M. (2013) Massive Open Online Courses and Beyond: the Revolut...
What happened in online learning over the summer? – 1 19 Aug 2013 | 04:04 am
Jervis Inlet, British Columbia I hope you have all had a wonderful summer break in the Northern Hemisphere. This has been the best summer since I moved to Vancouver 23 years ago – the driest and sunn...
Co-ordinating online learning at the state and provincial level 1 Aug 2013 | 03:11 am
Negrea, S. (2013) Colleges breaking new ground in distance learning University Business, August This excellent article sets out how four states in the U.S.A. – Georgia, Wisconsin, Kentucky and Florid...
Is there a link between flexible access and ‘productivity’ in higher education? 28 Jul 2013 | 05:36 am
© Dr. Scott Simmerman, 1993 This is the third in a series of posts about ways in which learning technologies and online learning could improve educational productivity in higher education. The first ...
Los Angeles schools to issue iPads to all students 27 Jul 2013 | 06:20 am
Weiss, T. (2013) Los Angeles plans to give 640,000 students free iPads, CITE World, July 25 I don’t normally cover k-12 developments, but this one seems pretty significant. Los Angeles Unified School...
An explanation of how ACE accredits MOOCs 26 Jul 2013 | 11:26 pm
Book, P. (2103) ACE as Academic Credit Reviewer–Adjustment, Accommodation, and Acceptance WCET Learn, July 25 Over the next few weeks, WCET will publish a series of blog posts on Massively Open Onli...
