Monday, December 23, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Book review: Changing Cultures in Higher Education

Ehlers, U-D. and Schneckenberg, D. (eds. ) Changing Cultures in Higher Education: Moving Ahead to Future Learning Heidelberg/London/New York: Springer, 610 pp, US$129.00 What the...

Using the web for open peer review

Cohen, P. (2010) Scholars test web alternative to peer review New York Times, August 23 Interesting article about the Shakespeare Quarterly's experiment in open peer...

Campus Technology’s Annual Awards for 11 best technology innovations

Lloyd, M. and Raths, D. (2010) Campus Technology's Innovators'Awards Campus Technology, August 3 Campus Technology chose from over 400 submissions to identify their 11 most...

More tips on faculty development for a competency-free profession

Young, J. (2010) Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom Chronicle of Higher Education, July 24 An interview with Chris Dede,...

Useful tips on faculty development for teaching with technology

Fusch, D. (2010) Supporting Faculty in Adopting Emerging Learning Technologies Academic Impressions, July 22 An interview with Jerome Waldron, Salisbury University, on how to engage...

Designing research for the Ontario Online Institute

HECQO and the Ontario Online Institute I spent a very interesting day on July 7 at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), discussing...

Another perspective on quality

I have referred in another post to a paper by Maxim Jean-Louis, the President of Contact North, who was one of the participants...

Barriers to change: two perspectives

Miller, B. (2010) The Course of Innovation: Using Technology to Transform Higher Education Washington DC: EducationSector Batson, T. (2010) Innovation in Higher Education: It’s Not...

Simulating teacher training in a virtual world

Kolowich, S. (2010) Avatars to teach the teachers Inside Higher Education, July 7 An article about a really interesting project, TeachME, by faculty in the...

Dispelling myths

I came across some blogs about 'myths', so I thought I'd put them together. Myth No. 1: 'A university education is becoming so costly -...