Saturday, December 21, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Informal mobile learning for banana farmers in Africa

Arnquist, S. (2009) In rural Africa, a fertile market for mobile phones New York Times, October 5 An article showing how mobile phones are being...

Video use and higher education

Kaufman, P. and Mohan, J. (2009) Video use and higher education New York: Intelligent Television This report, undertaken by Intelligent Television and the Copyright Clearance...

The impact of information and communications technologies on the university

For francophones, a book by Julie Boissonneault, a professor at Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada Boissonneault, J. (2009) Enjeux de la Médiatisation à l'Université Sudbury ON:...

Kindle and the Blind

'The National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind are suing Arizona State University for its use of the Amazon...

Home dissection kits and more

Molz, D. (2009) Home dissection kits and more Inside Higher Education, June 5 Another form of blended learning: online courses with home kits. The interesting...

Are Learning Management Systems obsolete? Some questions

In an earlier blog about Blackboard buying out Angel Learning Systems, I dropped the throwaway comment: 'I suspect that by the time all the legal...

Does technology use improve learning outcomes?

Reynard, R. (2009) Can We Gauge Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes? Campus Technology, March 25 A thoughtful essay in a long line that discusses the...

Web 2.0 selection criteria

Bovard, B. (2009) Web 2.0 selection criteria Tek Trek March 2 Excellent list of criteria for deciding which Web 2.0 tools to use for teaching...

Steam engines and IT: electronic note-taking (paper-based computing)

(This replaces an earlier post) Hannon, C. (2008) Paper-based Computing EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Vol. 31. No. 4 This article looks at some of the issues arising from...

Asynchronous and synchronous e-learning

Hrastinski, S. (2008) Asynchronous and synchronous e-learning EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4 (October–December 2008) A study of asynchronous and synchronous e-learning methods discovered that...