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Demand for online learning likely to grow in British Columbia

Last week the BC Provincial government released two reports critical to the economic future of the province, and which have implicit implications for online...

New white paper on the English higher education system

Cable, V. and Willets, D. (2011) Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System London: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills This paper sets out...

20 million more graduates needed in the USA

Carnavale, A. and Rose, S. (2011) The Undereducated American Washington DC: Georgetown University Centre n Education and the Workforce This short report by two prestigious...

How Britain is moving to the privatization of higher education

Shepherd, J. (2011) Private university BPP launches bid to run 10 publicly funded counterparts Guardian Newspaper, June 21 BPP, a subsidiary of the Apollo Group, which...

Online learning in the Garden of Eden

Daniel, J. (2011)  20 Years of Distance Education in the Garden of EDEN: Good News and Bad News EDEN 20th Anniversary Conference: Learning and Sustainability:...

Mobile learning devices, and some Canadian players

  Kim, J. (2011) A mobile learning platform matrix Inside Higher Education, June 13 A simple matrix that compares the pros and cons of full laptops,...

Tuition costs vs middle class income in the USA

  Censky, A, (2011) Surging college costs price out middle class CNN Money, June 13 Drawing on data from the IRS and the College Board, this...

Unleashing web 2.0 for African learning

Kasumuni, L. (2011) Unleashing web 2.0 for African Learning, eLearning Africa News Portal, June 8 The e-Learning Africa conference goes from strength to strength, emphasising...

Trends in Canadian higher education

AUCC (2011) Trends in Higher Education: Vol. 1, Enrolment Ottawa: AUCC This publication of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada is packed full...

Is e-learning the food-bank of education?

  Bitti, M. T. (2011) Student loans a hard lesson National Post, June 4 This article provides some sobering statistics about student debt in Canada: $26,680 Average...