Some key findings from this year’s Sloan survey of online education in the USA
Allen, I. and Seaman, J. (2010) Class Differences: Online Education in the United States 2010 Babson Park MA: Babson Survey Research Group/Sloan-C
Babson Survey Group...
Main findings from the 2010 Campus Computing Project
Green, K. C. (2010) Managing Online Education, Encino CA: The Campus Computing Project,/WCET
Kolowich, S. (2010) Internal barriers to online expansion, Inside Higher Education, November...
Comparing Chinese and British HE systems through their distance teaching universities
Wei, Runfang (2008) China's Radio and TV Universities and the British Open University: A Comparative Study Nanjing China: Yilin Press
This has been sitting on...
How higher education policy really works: a Canadian example
First of all, apologies for the interruption to normal service over the last month. I was on a tight deadline to finish revisions to...
Tuition fees in England could reach $15,000 a year
Coughlan, S. (2010) Students face tuition fees rising to £9,000 a year BBC News Education and Family, November 3
The UK government is more or...
NMC Horizon Report on new learning technologies for Latin America
The 2010 Horizon Report: Edición Iberoamericana, a Spanish language edition, is the result of a collaboration between the NMC and the Open University of...
Free new guide to teaching at a distance from South Africa
The South African Institute of Distance Education has developed a new guide for adjunct instructors supporting learners at a distance (called tutors outside North...
Towards a national framework for degrees?
Lederman, D. (2010) Borrowing from Bologna? Inside Higher Education, September 13
This is a report of an interesting initiative by the Lumina Foundation in the...
International comparisons in higher education: the OECD’s Education at a Glance
OECD (2010) Education at a Glance 2010 Paris: OECD
The OECD has brought out its annual 'Education at a Glance Report', which provides data from...
Book review: Changing Cultures in Higher Education
Ehlers, U-D. and Schneckenberg, D. (eds. ) Changing Cultures in Higher Education: Moving Ahead to Future Learning Heidelberg/London/New York: Springer, 610 pp, US$129.00
What the...