A vision for the future: Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness...
Identifying the problem with higher education in the 21st was the easy part (Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 1). Much more difficult is finding solutions to the...
View ArticleOnline learning in Ontario
I’ve had several people contact me to ask what is the Ontario Online Institute? It was announced by the Ontario Provincial Government in the Throne Speech to the legislature on March 8. The first thing...
View ArticleMr 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 report on my presentation to the Canadian Senate Standing Committee...
View ArticleA state wide online consortium for California?
Taylor, M. (2010) Using Distance Education to Increase College Access and Efficiency Sacramento CA: Legislative Analyst Office, State of California The Contra Costa Times is not normally on my reading...
View ArticleSkills development, credit transfer, quality assurance and the cost of...
These are all topics covered in the October issue of the Commonwealth of Learning’s October edition of its Connections journal. The Commonwealth of Learning is a relatively small organization that...
View ArticleWhat can Ontario learn from BC in e-learning?
The central importance of Ontario in Canada Ontario is, if not the centre of the universe, certainly the centre of Canada, geographically, economically and in terms of size. Its population at over 13...
View ArticleA degree of open-ness: University of Texas offers online degree completion route
Hamilton, R. (2011) UT System Launches Online Route to Degree Completion The Texas Tribune, December 13 I complained in my retrospective of e-learning for 2011 that some institutions that promote open...
View ArticleThe challenge of converting MOOCs (or anything else) into college credits
Kolowich, S. (2012) The online pecking order Inside Higher Education, August 2 This article takes a careful and detailed look at different ways that students might convert MOOCs into formal university...
View ArticlePlan to assess credit value of MOOCs
Marklein, M.B. (2012) College credit for online courses gains momentum USA Today. November 13 The American Council on Education, ‘a non-profit organization that represents most of the nation’s college...
View ArticleKeeping up with MOOC developments
How are you keeping up with MOOC developments? If you are like me, you are probably feeling swamped and not a little overwhelmed by all the coverage and news about MOOCs. Here’s what I’ve come across...
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