Journal: Distance Education, Vol. 32, No. 1 now available
Is online distance education about to collapse like the Tower of Babel? So asks Jon Baggaley
Distance Education, Vol. 32, No. 1, May 2011
The academic...
Thoughts on the history and future of distance education
Capella University is a for-profit online university based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It offers a graduate course on the Delivery of Distance Education as part...
New directions for ICDE
ICDE (2011) Annual Report, 2010 Oslo: ICDE
ICDE has recently published its 2010 Annual Report and a Progress Report on the organization's work towards activities...
DE in Community Colleges in the USA: 2010 in review
Lokken, F. (2011) Trends in eLearning: Tracking the Impact of eLearning at Community Colleges: 2010 Distance Education Survey Results Washington DC: Instructional Technology Council.
This carefully conducted...
Call for proposals for Themed Issue of Distance Education (Volume 33, Number 2, 2012)
The journal “Distance Education” is calling for proposals for the development of a guest-edited themed issue that will need to go to press in...
Distance Education in Afghanistan
Kuchi family near Bamian © Tony Bates, 2010
My experience in Afghanistan
I worked on a UNESCO project for four months in Afghanistan...
What’s planned for “E-learning and DE Resources” for 2011
I hope you will have noticed that I have made very few posts over the last two weeks. There are several reasons for this:
I...
Report on Online Educa Berlin 2010
The report summarizing the Online Educa Berlin 2010 conference earlier this month concluded:
'A new paradigm of learning emerged during the sessions attended by a...
e-learning retrospective: 2) how good were my predictions?
On December 30, 2009, I posted my predictions for 2010:
1. Follow the money:
'In many countries, 2010 will be a difficult year financially....So we’ll have...
e-learning 2010 retrospective: 1) what my web site indicates
'That was the year that was - it's over, let it go' to adapt the title song of a 1960's British satirical TV series.
To...