An essay on the impact of the digital age on scholarship and institutions
Katz, R. (2010) Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Digital Age Educause Review, Vol. 45. No. 2, pp. 44-56
It is always interesting...
A marketer’s view of higher education in the USA
For those of you not familiar with Seth Godin's excellent blog on marketing, take a look at his latest blog:
The coming melt-down in higher...
A report of online learning activities in the USA
The European Re.Vica project has been building country reports on online learning and virtual campuses for a growing number of countries.
It has just published...
Towards a national strategy for e-learning in the U.K.
The excellent Re.Vica project's latest newsletter provides a link to a preliminary report from a high-level task force on online learning created by the...
Struggling with the costs of teaching in higher education
Writer's block
As I have mentioned before, I am currently writing an old-fashioned book (you know, the thing with paper sheets bound together) on the...
Factors affecting time to degree completion
Bound, J., Lovenheim, M. and Turner, S. (2010) Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States Cambridge MA: National Bureau of Economic Research
This...
Strategic management for e-learning: a New Zealand study
Higgins, A., Prebble, T. and Suddaby, S. (2008) Taking the Lead: Strategic Management for e-Learning Wellington NZ: Ministry of Education/Aotearoa, National Centre for Tertiary...
Canada’s digital divide and its implications for other countries
Marlow, I. and McNish, J. (2010) Canada's Digital Divide, The Globe and Mail, April 3
For those of you who don't read Toronto's national newspaper,...
More news from the eLearning Africa 2010 conference
The news portal for the eLearning Africa 2010 conference in Lusaka, Zambia, between May 26-28 has the following news items about presentations to be...
Distance education for teacher training in Africa
Clayton R. Wright, formerly Director of Instructional Media and Development at Grant MacEwan University, Alberta, is currently working in Sierra Leone.
He kindly agreed...