Kuali Foundation goes commercial
Straumsheim, C. (2014) Kuali Foundation: If you can't beat them....., Inside Higher Education, August 25
While there are several providers of open source learning management...
Special edition on research on MOOCs in the journal ‘Distance Education’
The August 2014 edition of the Australian-based journal, Distance Education (Vol.35, No. 2.), is devoted to new research on MOOCs. There is a guest editor,...
WCET’s analysis of U.S. statistics on distance education
U.S.Department of Education (2014) Web Tables: Enrollment in Distance Education Courses, by State: Fall 2012 Washington DC: U.S.Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics
Hill,...
The success or otherwise of online students in the California Community College system
Johnson, H. and Mejia, M. (2014) Online learning and student outcomes in California's community colleges San Francisco CA: Public Policy Institute of California, 20...
A balanced research report on the hopes and realities of MOOCs
Hollands, F. and Tirthali, D. (2014) MOOCs: Expectations and Reality New York: Columbia University Teachers' College, Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, 211 pp
We...
More developments in online labs
Zalaznik, M. (2014) Online labs evolve University Business, May
What's happening
This article reports on the following developments in online labs:
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has created an...
What I learned from the Open Textbook Summit
BCcampus (2014) Five lessons learned at the Open Textbooks Summit Vancouver BC: BCcampus
BCcampus organized an open textbook summit again this year (the first one...
Why successful consortia for online learning are so difficult
Fishman, R. (2013) State U Online Washington DC: The New America Foundation
Fishman, R. (2014) Seeking Your Input on Online Consortia and Online Community Colleges WCET...
Contact North on Online Learning, Innovation, Flexibility and Open Educational Resources
Contact North's humble office in Sudbury, OntarioContact North continues to produce a range of interesting short pieces on different aspects of online learning. (Disclaimer:...
Learn to fly – online
Warnock, C. (2014) 1,600 students worldwide take online flight classes Daily Herald, April 5
"Yeah, you'll be telling me next that you can learn to...