Showing posts with label distance education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label distance education. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Off Campus Librarian - a new blog
Debbie Bezanson has started a nice, brand-new blog for off-campus librarians. See http://www.offcampuslibrarian.com/
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
June 7, 2010 Critical Literaries - and lots of teaching
The first week of teaching three online courses simultaneously is over this evening - starting on week 2! I find it time-consuming which could be considered a bad thing as in "it takes too much time", but more than that, I find it absorbing which is a good thing! I added some notes to two courses and identified two articles that I think will go on ereserves for the third course - all in response to some student remarks. Teaching the courses pushes other things into the background. However I am going to see if I can get to the Critical Literacies open meeting on Wednesday. http://ple.elg.ca/course/?p=1
Friday, April 16, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Sloan report - Online Higher Education Enrollment
Stephen Downes reported on Kevin Carey's comment on the Sloan C report Learning on Demand: Online Education in the United States, 2009. Carey noted that the current Kaplan University ads are a "direct and harsh critique of traditional colleges and universities..." http://www.quickanded.com/2010/01/steady-long-term-trends-rule-the-world.html - and what's remarkable about that is I was thinking the same thing when I saw a Kaplan University ad the other day. Good advertising! As I write this, ads are available at http://talent.kaplan.edu/campaign.aspx. See what you think!
Monday, January 25, 2010
Impact of Opencourseware on Paid Enrollment in Distance Learning Courses
Justin K. Johansen's dissertation - The Impact Of Opencourseware On Paid Enrollment In Distance Learning Courses - explores MIT's OpenCourceWare Initiative and Brigham Young University's OCW Independent Study Program - and subsequent enrollment in the same BYU courses for credit. David Wiley points out (http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1231) that this study presents evidence that a university can provide open access to courses and garner tuition-paying students. Interesting!
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