Free online workshop on open content licensing
2012 is a significant year for open education. It is 10 years since UNESCO adopted the term "Open Educational Resources" (OER). In joining the...
New MIT president a driving force behind MITx and edX
L. Rafael Reif, a distinguished electrical engineer, who is completing his seven-year tenure as MIT’s provost, has been selected as the 17th president of...
An opportunity to win an international award for e-learning
Submissions for the 2012 International E-Learning Awards - Academic Division, presented by the International E-Learning Association (IELA), are due soon! The Entry Submission Page is posted...
Two Sloan-C conferences on online learning
5th Annual Sloan Consortium/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium
July 25-27, 2012
The Venetian and Palazzo Resort – Las Vegas, Nevada
This joint symposium of...
European forum on quality in e-learning: promoting innovation in education
The Alhambra, Granada (photo: © Tony Bates, 2009)
What
EFQUEL (the European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning) is holding a three day forum on '“Learning for Open...
University of Wisconsin Distance Education conference 2012
What:
28th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning
TEACH…LEARN…CONNECT with colleagues at this year’s conference. More than 150 learning opportunities will be presented by distance education...
EDEN 2012 conference program ready
The full program for the EDEN conference in Porto, Portugal, 6-9 June, is now available.
This is one of the major conferences for online and...
Conference: e-Learn 2012, Montréal; call for presentations
What
E-Learn - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education is an international conference organized by the Association for the Advancement...
Video of presentation on ‘Designing online learning for the 21st century’
Université Laval has now made available the full video version on my presentation on this topic. It can viewed here: Apprentissage et enseignement à l'ère...
New book on learning design
Laurillard, D. (2012) Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology New York/London: Routledge, 258 pp, from $40
This book is just...