The African Health OER Network
Mawayo, M. and Tlaka, M. (2011) The African Health OER Network, SAIDE Newsletter, Vol. 17, No. 5
A useful short description of the African Health...
Research on Virtual Learning Environments
Smart, C. (2011) VLEs at the heart of curriculum innovation, JISC e-Learning Focus, February 7
This article looks at four projects using VLEs in the...
Managing dairy farming with mobile devices in Kenya
Kahumbu, S. and Kithika, C. (2010) iCow: Transforming Animal Husbandry in Kenya e-Learning Africa 2011 Newsletter, No. 2, December 15
Young technology entrepreneurs led by...
A gradual move to open-source textbooks
Rosenhall, L. (2010) Internet, cost spur textbook revolt Sacramento Bee, December 6
For those of you who don't get the Sacramento Bee newspaper (you dont?!),...
The joy of statistics
To cheer you up for the new year, I offer you:
In this four minute BBC video on YouTube, Hans Rosling animates life expectancy and...
What is more important than grades?
In an earlier posting on the OECD's PISA tests, there was some discussion about what was NOT measured in standardized tests of reading, science...
Innovative e-learning in the Vancouver area
I worry about the often negative tone of many of my posts. It was therefore a great pleasure to attend the joint Justice Institute...
November issue of journal ‘Distance Education’
The November 2010 edition of 'Distance Education', Vol. 31, No 3. is now out, but not as an open access document. If you are...
Distance Education and Mobile Learning
The Australian-based Distance Education journal has just brought out a special edition on distance education and mobile learning.
The articles between them provide a good...
Using the web for open peer review
Cohen, P. (2010) Scholars test web alternative to peer review New York Times, August 23
Interesting article about the Shakespeare Quarterly's experiment in open peer...