How useful is strategic planning for e-learning?
I've just completed the first draft of a chapter for a book on integrating technology in post-secondary educational institutions that I am writing with...
Using online learning to increase enrolments and revenue
Kirk, A. (2010) Leveraging Technology to Increase Enrollment, Capacity, and Revenues University Business, February
This is quite a good article on what is involved in...
How well has your institution integrated technology?
I'm currently writing a book with Albert Sangra of the Open University of Catalonia on the integration of technology within post-secondary institutions.The book is...
A personal view of e-learning at the University of British Columbia
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (home of OLT)
It's now seven years since I resigned as Director of Distance Education and Technology at UBC,...
Six priorities for Canadian e-learning in 2010
Summary of my priorities
1. A requirement for all newly appointed full-time instructors in public Canadian post-secondary educational institutions to have a formal certification in...
The state of e-learning 2009
It's that time of year again. Here's a personal look back at e-learning in 2009 (I will do another blog on priorities for Canadian...
The business of higher education
Lederman, D. (2009) The business of higher education Inside Higher Education, December 2
An interview with the authors of a new book:
Knapp, J. and Siegel,...
The current status of the Open University of Japan
Aoki, K. (2009) The current status of the Open University of Japan Re.ViCa Newsletter, November
The Re.Vica newsletter contains an interesting update on the Open...
So: is e-learning really failing in higher education? An answer
Background
This is the last in a series of ten blogs on the topic: 'Is e-learning failing in higher education?' My blogs on this topic...
Barriers to change: Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 3
The story so far
In an earlier post (Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 1), I argued that higher education institutions...