New resources for online educators from Contact North
Over the last few months, Contact North has been gradually adding an impressive range of online resources to its Educator Portal. As well as the numerous articles...
MIT to develop new Open Learning Enterprise unit for online learning
Reif, L. (2012) Letter to the community on appointment of Open Learning Enterprise director MIT News, March 16
News Office (2012) Anant Agarwal named director of new...
European universities: re-form or die; but what about Canada?
Grove, J. (2012) Long, cold financial winter lies ahead for Europe's academy Times Higher Education, February 9
What's happening in Europe
This is a really depressing,...
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...
Posts from a foreign land: Online Educa 2011, No. 2: Corporate Learning ( #oeb11...
Introduction
I realise that there's only one thing more 'dead' than yesterday's newspaper and that's yesterday's conference, so I apologise for the gap of two...
Posts from a foreign land: Online Educa 2011, No. 1 ( #oeb11 )
Why I'm here
This will be the first of several posts on this year's Online Educa Berlin conference. This is the first time I have...
From dream to reality: why implementation is as important as goal setting in e-learning
Two recent developments have brought home clearly the need to consider and discuss implementation strategies at the same time as setting educational goals. The...
European report on the future of learning
Redecker, C. et al. (2011) The Future of Learning: Preparing for Change Seville Spain: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, JRC, European Commission
What the report...
#Change 11: Week 6: Managing Technology: final thoughts and closing
I'm wrapping up this week of the MOOC by drawing attention to a few more excellent comments to my last post (and my responses),...
#Change 11: Week 6: Managing Technology: the discussion so far
Comments to date on Managing Technology to Transform Teaching
It's now Friday, five days into the week, and I've tracked the following comments or responses...