Saturday, January 18, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

A ‘free’ online MBA via Facebook?

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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...

Innovative e-learning in the Vancouver area

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I worry about the often negative tone of many of my posts. It was therefore a great pleasure to attend the joint Justice Institute...

Skills development, credit transfer, quality assurance and the cost of technology in developing countries

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These are all topics covered in the October issue of the Commonwealth of Learning's October edition of its Connections  journal. The Commonwealth of Learning is...

Why technology does not lead to lower cost in higher education

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Archibald, R. and Feldman, D.  (2001) Why Does College Cost So Much? New York: Oxford University Press Fish, S. (2010) There is no college cost...

Data analytics and online learning

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Business intelligence data display: Oracle Inc. Kolowich, S. (2010) Technology and the completion agenda Inside Higher Education, November 9 This article highlights what I...

Using technology to save time and money

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Ehrmann, S. (2010) Taking the Long View: Ten Recommendations about Time, Money, Technology, and Learning Change, September-October An excellent article about how to bring about...

Hope and despair: managing technological change

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In a very funny low budget British movie called 'Clockwise', John Cleese plays a school principal with an obsession about punctuality who is asked...

Reflections on demographics, video-conferencing and aboriginal distance education

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I apologise for the lack of postings this past week. I have been on the road, visiting the University of Saskatchewan in central Canada...

Book review: Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Christensen Hughes, J. and Mighty, J. (eds.) (2010) Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Montreal QC and Kingston ON: McGill-Queen's...

Reforming the university: evolution or revolution?

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Who will bring about change? In reviewing Ehlers and Schneckenberg's 'Changing Cultures in Higher Education', I began to wonder if or how the modern university...