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Hard data on online learning in Ontario

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Ontario's Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities is to be congratulated for undertaking a comprehensive survey of online offerings in its post-secondary institutions. The...

Growth of distance education in Québec

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Saucier, R. (2011) Portrait des inscriptions en formation à distance (secondaire, collègial et universitaire) au Québec depuis  1995-1996 Québec: CLIFAD I have commented several times...

11 EdTech Ideas for 2011

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Joshua Kim (2010) 11 EdTech Ideas for 2011 Inside Higher Education, December 20 Joshua Kim's always interesting blog gives his ideas for 2011. My favourite: 10....

Online learning in Britain: what the hell is going on?

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White, D. et al. (2010) Study of UK Online Learning Oxford: Department of Continuing Education/HEFCE. This is a report funded by the Higher Education Funding...

Interpreting international comparisons in academic achievement

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OECD (2010) OECD Program for International Assessment Paris: OECD The media, worldwide, have been having a field day interpreting the latest OECD PISA results, which...

Some key findings from this year’s Sloan survey of online education in the USA

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Allen, I. and Seaman, J. (2010) Class Differences: Online Education in the United States 2010 Babson Park MA: Babson Survey Research Group/Sloan-C Babson Survey Group...

Main findings from the 2010 Campus Computing Project

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Green, K. C. (2010) Managing Online Education, Encino CA: The Campus Computing Project,/WCET Kolowich, S. (2010) Internal barriers to online expansion, Inside Higher Education, November...

Hope and despair: managing technological change

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In a very funny low budget British movie called 'Clockwise', John Cleese plays a school principal with an obsession about punctuality who is asked...

Book review: Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

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Christensen Hughes, J. and Mighty, J. (eds.) (2010) Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Montreal QC and Kingston ON: McGill-Queen's...

Reforming the university: evolution or revolution?

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Who will bring about change? In reviewing Ehlers and Schneckenberg's 'Changing Cultures in Higher Education', I began to wonder if or how the modern university...