Welcome back and what you may have missed in online learning over the summer
I hope you all had a great summer break and have come back fully charged for another always challenging year in teaching. I thought...
Corruption in higher education: a wake-up call
Daniel, J. (2016) Combatting Corruption and Enhancing Integrity: A Contemporary Challenge for the Quality and Integrity of Higher Education: Advisory Statement for Effective International...
EDEN Research Workshop, October, 2016
What: Forging New Pathways of research and innovation in open and distance learning: reaching from the roots
The Ninth EDEN Research Workshop in Oldenburg, Germany,...
Online learning for beginners: 3. ‘Aren’t MOOCs online learning?’
What are MOOCs?
Just in case you don't know what MOOCs are (massive, open online courses), they are usually courses that use video recordings of lectures...
Conference in Africa: E-Learning Innovations
What: The 4th E-Learning Innovations Conference and Expo provides an opportunity to showcase cutting-edge research, innovation and contemporary e-learning practices. The main theme: Powering...
Brexit and online learning in Europe
Little England triumphs
Well, Little England has triumphed at last. The votes in suburban and industrial England and Wales were enough to defeat Londoners, Scots...
EDEN 2016: Re-imagining Learning Environments
The EDEN conference
I have just attended the annual conference of the European Distance and E-Learning Network in Budapest, Hungary.
EDEN is one of my favourite conferences...
State support for public higher education is declining in the USA
Young Invincibles (2015) 2016 State Report Cards Washington DC: Young Invincibles
This is a very interesting state by state report card on the support for...
EDEN conference 2016
What: 'Re-Imagining Learning Environments'.
We are set a challenge to really understand our learning environments. To create and invent responses that are possibly not even...
In the USA, fully online enrollments continue to grow in 2014
Straut, T.T. and Poulin, R. (2015) Highlights of Distance Education Trends from IPEDS Fall 2014, WCET Frontiers, 21 December
Source
WCET (the Western Co-operative for Educational...