Book review: Quality assurance in distance education and e-learning
Jung, I. and Latchem, C. (2012) Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Distance Education and e-Learning New York/London: Routledge
What the book is about
'There is relatively...
Stanford profs explore new business model(s) for open learning
Kolowich, S. (2012) Massive courses, sans Stanford, Inside Higher Education, January 24
This is an excellent article about two of the Stanford professors, and another...
New international quality label for e-learning courseware
epprobate is a new international quality label for courseware, an initiative of three organisations: The Learning Agency Network (LANETO), the Agence Wallonne des Télécommunication (AWT) and the e-Learning Quality Service Center...
e-learning outlook for 2012: will it be a rough ride?
© Firehorse Blog, 2012
Another year, and online learning, e-learning, learning technologies, educational technologies, digital learning, or whatever you call it or them, will continue...
Another step towards open-ness from Stanford professors – but not the university
Kolowich, S. (2011) Opencourseware 2.0 Inside Higher Education, December 13
In my retrospective for e-learning in 2011, I complained that merely making content open to...
A 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...
Adjuncts, LMSs and lack of training: an accident waiting to happen?
The use of underpaid, untrained adjunct faculty is one of higher education's dirty little secrets, especially (but not only) in the USA. The two...
Thinking about innovation in higher education
Stokes, P. (2011) Want innovation? Remove the barriers Inside Higher Education, October 27
This article by Peter Stokes, an executive vice-president at Eduventures, has some...
Introducing the OERu – and some questions
I've been following the development (at a distance) of the OERu, and here's my understanding of what it's trying to do.
The OERu (the Open...
About Mozilla Badges
© The Tree Maker, 2011
I'm currently on holiday so shouldn't even be logging on, but I want to capture an important development that needs...