Pakistani Punjab creates open content platform
Business Standard (2014) Pakistani Punjab to launch e-learning platform, Lahore, Pakistan, January 5
The provincial government of the Punjab, Pakistan, though its Punjab Information Technology...
University of Florida Online launches first undergraduate programs this month
Moran, C. (2013) UF expands opportunities for four-year degrees UF News, September 27
State University System of Florida (2013) UF Online Comprehensive Business Plan, 2013-2019 Gainsville,...
Order of Canada for Sir John Daniel
Congratulations to Sir John Daniel for his appointment to the Order of Canada, 'for his advancement of open learning and distance education in Canada and...
The cost of being a student in Canada – and where to find online...
vouchercloud is a Canadian discount coupon website and they have a selection of student specific coupons. They have produced the above infographic focusing on the cost of being a student in...
Book review: The Smartest Kids in the World
Ripley, A. (2013) The Smartest Kids in the World - and How They Got That Way New York/London/Toronto/Sydney/New Delhi: Simon and Schuster
OECD (2013) PISA...
Happy holidays with my 2,000th post
I'd like to wish all readers of this blog a merry Christmas, happy Hanuka, or a fantastic holiday, whatever your faith or lack of...
Leadership in open and distance education universities
The conference
For 20 years, the Standing Committee of Presidents (SCOP) of the members of the International Council of Distance Education (ICDE) has provided a...
A Franco-Canadian forum on MOOCs
The conference
Last week was a hell of a week. I was at a two-day conference in Lyon, France (jet-lagged most of the time with...
MOOCs, Norway, and the ecology of digital learning
© Ron Niebrugge, 2013 MOOCs are just one species in the online digital forest - and a big and clumsy oneEarlier this week I...
Examining the potential and reality of open educational resources: the 2013 COHERE conference
COHERE (Collaboration for Online Higher Education and Research) runs one of my favourite annual conferences. It is relatively small (around 75), the participants are...