Monday, November 25, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

What Presidents think of technology investment for teaching and learning

Green, K., Jaschik, S., and Lederman, D. (2011) Presidential Perspectives Inside Higher Education, March 4 Not much, it appears. Inside Higher Ed sought the frank and...

Competing internationally in online programs

Keith Hampson's Higher Education Management Group has an interesting discussion of the recent report from the UK: Online Learning Task Force (2011) Collaborate to compete:...

European report on best practices in lifelong learning strategies using ICTs

This project, called Hextlearn, funded by the European Commission, came to an end in October 2010. There are four main outcomes: a report on Good...

The future of universities: research or teaching?

Daniel, J. and Uvalic-Trumbic, S. (2011) Will higher education split? CoL Blog, February 10 In this very interesting blog, Sir John Daniel of the Commonwealth...

Ten recommendations for using technology to save time and money

Ehrmann, S. (2010) Taking the Long View: ten recommendations about time, money, technology and learning Change: The Magazine of Higher Education, Vol. 42, No....

Organizing social media: an oxymoron?

Petroff, M. (2011) Social media strategy and business organizational structure .eduGuru, January 31 Thanks to Academic Impressions for directing me to this interesting, short post...

Carrots for online courses

Kolowich, S. (2010) Spare the rod, pay the prof Inside Higher Education, December 21 An article about the University of Kentucky that allows most of...

Online learning in Britain: what the hell is going on?

White, D. et al. (2010) Study of UK Online Learning Oxford: Department of Continuing Education/HEFCE. This is a report funded by the Higher Education Funding...

An example of shared services: Drexel University

McCrea, B. (2010) IT beyond the campus Campus Technology, December 2 Many smaller institutions face significant problems when faced with major upgrades or changes to...

A ‘free’ online MBA via Facebook?

Guttenplan, D. (2010) Poking, Tagging and Now Landing an M.B.A. New York Times, November 28 Note: this post was up-dated on 27 March 2023. The above article...