Recommendations for a new Ontario Online Institute
The final recommendations for an Ontario Online Institute are now published. Tucked away on the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities 'In the...
For-profits, student loans, new rules, and how these affect students in the USA, Canada...
For profits are in the news again for several reasons.
The Obama administration has produced new rules that determine whether for-profit institutions will qualify for...
France moving in the right direction with universities?
Guttenplan, D. (2011) France Reinvesting in Universities, Education Minister Says New York Times, May 22
This article, an interview with Valérie Pécresse, the minister for higher...
The calamitous state of higher education in England and Wales
I have to be careful when writing about my home country. Having decided to emigrate to Canada just over 20 years ago, a psychological...
DE in Community Colleges in the USA: 2010 in review
Lokken, F. (2011) Trends in eLearning: Tracking the Impact of eLearning at Community Colleges: 2010 Distance Education Survey Results Washington DC: Instructional Technology Council.
This carefully conducted...
Integrating technology into the African classroom
The latest edition of eLearning Africa's News Portal has several interesting previews of what will be presented and discussed at the conference. I've picked out...
Advice on online learning from the private sector
Background
Ontario is a technology hub and home to several leading private sector providers of platforms, services and infrastructure for online learning. Research in Motion...
Advice on online learning from 13 world experts
Maxim Jean-Louis, as special advisor to the Minister on the Ontario Online Institute, has being doing a lot of homework recently.
He asked 20 world...
Costs of DE in Indonesia
Belawati, T. (2006) Financial Management System in Open and Distance Learning: An Example at Universitas Terbuka EduComm Asia, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 2-7
In...
Is for-profit online learning the answer for developing countries?
Daniel. J. (2011) The Role of For-Profit Higher Education Commonwealth of Learning, April 7
Sir John Daniel, the President of the Commonwealth of Learning, reports...