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Mini-series on e-portfolios and personal learning environments

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Graham Attwell is running a thoughtful min-series of blogs on this topic. See: Attwell, G. (2009) e-portfolios-WTF Pontydysgu: Bridge to Learning, September 4 Attwell, G. (2010)...

Is prior learning assessment better than GPAs for admission to post-secondary education?

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Klein-Collins, R. (2010) Fueling the Race to Post-Secondary Success Chicago IL: The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning One of the features of old age...

Do you know your online student really exists?

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Parry, M. (2010) Online Scheme Highlights Fears About Distance-Education Fraud The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 14 Every once in a while comes along a...

Has the credit hour become a relic?

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Blumenstyck, G. (2010) Beyond the Credit Hour: Old Standards Don't Fit New Models Chronicle of Higher Education, January 3 Blumenstyck writes: In the era of distance...

An e-portfolio approach to measuring competencies

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Pereira, A. et al. (2009) Evaluating continuous assessment quality in competence-based education online: the case of the e-folio EURODL, December 9 The paper, from researchers...

Old mantras instead of new thinking

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Tolley, R. (2010) A New Year - but Old Mantras? e-Folio in the UK, January 3 In an excellent diatribe from the UK, Roy Tolley...

New edition of the Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

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The TOJDE is always an interesting compilation of papers by researchers mainly from outside the Western Anglo-Saxon culture. Volume: 11 Number: 1 can be...

Reigning in costs with online learning

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Bassis, M. (2009) Reigning in college costs Businessweek, December 21 This is a useful article, from the President of Westminster College, Salt Lake City, to...

So: is e-learning really failing in higher education? An answer

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Background This is the last in a series of ten blogs on the topic: 'Is e-learning failing in higher education?' My blogs on this topic...

e-portfolios and skills (competences) assessment

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Krämer, J. and Seeler, G. (2009) E-portfolios as tools to assess generic competences in distance learning study courses Elearningpapers, September This paper by faculty from...