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Guest post: a review of the Ontario government’s discussion paper on transforming post-secondary education

Ontario (2012) Strengthening Ontario's Centres of Creativity, Innovation and Knowledge Toronto ON: Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities in the ides of summer (June 27), the...

The status of online learning in Canada in 2012

Contact North (2012) Online Learning in Canada: At a Tipping Point Sudbury ON: Contact North Contact North's report Contact North in Ontario has just published a...

More developments in e-learning in Saudi Arabia

Photo: Tony Bates, 2009 Albalawi, M. (2012) Web-Based Instructions (WBI): An Assessment of Preparedness of Conventional Universities in Saudi Arabia" Hershey PA: IGI Global This recent study by...

Roundup of news on online developments in US higher education

Having been on the road for the last two weeks, I've accumulated a backlog of material for the blog. Here I'm providing a very...

Examples of hybrid online learning from Ontario

Judith Tobin of Contact North has been collecting examples of innovation in online learning from the 20 universities and 24 colleges in the Ontario...

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...

Who has the richest professors? Canada!?

Jaschik, S. (2012) Faculty Pay, Around the World, Inside Higher Education, March 22 Philip Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Maria Yudkevich, Gregory Androushchak, Iván Pacheco (in press) Paying...

A project using e-readers in Africa

Trucano, M. (2012) An update on the use of e-readers in Africa EduTech, March 16 Michael Trucano's excellent World Bank blog here reports on the use...

South Koreans extensive users of e-learning

  Sang Yoon Shin (2011) Smart Education in Korea: South Korea’s Making the Switch to Digital Textbooks Advanced Technology Korea, October 10 Anon (2012) Over half South...

Survey on online learning in Africa

e-Learning Africa is requesting those involved in online learning in Africa to participate in a survey regarding the state of ICT-enhanced education and training in Africa. Here is...