Tracking online learning in the USA – and Ontario
Allen, I. and Seaman, J. (2014) Grade Change: Tracking Online Learning in the United States Wellesley MA: Babson College/Sloan Foundation
This is the eleventh annual report...
Ontario at last establishes “Ontario Online”
Bradshaw, J. (2104) Ontario to launch $42million central hub for online postsecondary classes, Globe and Mail, January 14
After more than two years discussion and...
Pakistani Punjab creates open content platform
Business Standard (2014) Pakistani Punjab to launch e-learning platform, Lahore, Pakistan, January 5
The provincial government of the Punjab, Pakistan, though its Punjab Information Technology...
The cost of being a student in Canada – and where to find online...
vouchercloud is a Canadian discount coupon website and they have a selection of student specific coupons. They have produced the above infographic focusing on the cost of being a student in...
Book review: The Smartest Kids in the World
Ripley, A. (2013) The Smartest Kids in the World - and How They Got That Way New York/London/Toronto/Sydney/New Delhi: Simon and Schuster
OECD (2013) PISA...
Look back in anger? A review of online learning in 2013
Well, where did 2013 go? It seems like only last week I was writing the 2012 review!This year, I did better with my predictions...
Leadership in open and distance education universities
The conference
For 20 years, the Standing Committee of Presidents (SCOP) of the members of the International Council of Distance Education (ICDE) has provided a...
A Franco-Canadian forum on MOOCs
The conference
Last week was a hell of a week. I was at a two-day conference in Lyon, France (jet-lagged most of the time with...
MOOCs, Norway, and the ecology of digital learning
© Ron Niebrugge, 2013 MOOCs are just one species in the online digital forest - and a big and clumsy oneEarlier this week I...
Examining the potential and reality of open educational resources: the 2013 COHERE conference
COHERE (Collaboration for Online Higher Education and Research) runs one of my favourite annual conferences. It is relatively small (around 75), the participants are...