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Producing ‘innovative’ graduates and how online learning can help

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Avvisati, F., Jacotin, G., and Vincent-Lacrin, S. (2013) Educating Higher Education Students for Innovative Economies: What International Data Tells Us, Tuning Journal for Higher...

New developments in online learning across the University of California system – and the...

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To, K. (2014) UC Regents announce online course expansion, The Guardian, UC San Diego, undated, but probably February 5 The University of California system continues...

Another e-learning platform from Nigeria

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Adepoju, P. (2014) Nigeria is ready for e-learning - Fora.co Humanipo, January 28 I wrote about tutor.ng in a previous post. Fora.co is another e-learning platform, working...

Is Athabasca University moving away from tutoring?

Nolais, J. (2014) Concerns dialed up over ‘call-centre model’ at Alberta’s Athabasca University Metro: Calgary, January 27 More signs of trouble at 'Canada's Open University', as...

2020 Vision: Outlook for online learning in 2014 and way beyond

 Taking the long view Doug Saunders in the Globe and Mail on  January 4 wrote an interesting piece on prediction, entitled: "Gadgets alone don't make...

Conference in Crete on quality in open education

What: SCOPE 2014: Changing the trajectory: quality for opening up education 'In order to make open learning and education more relevant and feasible for organizations as...

The cost of being a student in Canada – and where to find online...

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vouchercloud is a Canadian discount coupon website and they have a selection of student specific coupons. They have produced the above infographic focusing on the cost of being a student in...

Book review: The Smartest Kids in the World

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Ripley, A. (2013) The Smartest Kids in the World - and How They Got That Way New York/London/Toronto/Sydney/New Delhi: Simon and Schuster OECD (2013) PISA...

Productivity and online learning redux

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Summarizing the previous posts In previous posts (see end of this post), I tried to identify a range of areas where online learning might enable...

Productivity and online learning: an summary of the main concepts

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This is the first of two final posts in the series on whether online learning can increase educational ‘productivity.’ In this post I discuss...