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Call for papers for conference on blended learning
What: Blended Learning: A Strategy for Transforming Teaching and Learning Who: COHERE is a collaboration of universities focusing on the research and practice of blended and online learning within...
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California State University partners with Pearson for system-wide online program
Campuses in the California State University system PRWeb (2012) California State University Selects Pearson to Launch Cal State Online Long Beach CA: PRWeb, August 22 The California State University is...
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Book proposes a regional organization for distance education in Eastern...
A map of the ICDEEWA region Demiray, U. (2012) Leadership role for Turkey for ICDEEEWA Midas eBooks This free e-book (in English), by Urgur Demiray of the Turkish Anadolu University, looks at the...
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MOOCs move into credit-based higher education
Kolowich, S. (2012) MOOCs for credit, Inside Higher Education, October 29 This article reports on an interesting deal signed between Coursera and Antioch University. Antioch is a well-established...
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U.S. ‘quality’ consortium to offer online credit courses
Krache, D. (2012) Leading colleges announce, for-credit online courses Schools of Thought, CNN News, November 16 Using a common portal called Semester Online, 10 leading U.S. universities have...
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Webinar on the results from the VISCED project
When: Monday, 10 December 2012, between 15.00 – 16.00 CET (9.00 am – 10.00 am EST) Participation is free but you need to register online at...
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Serving remote and rural communities: lessons from 25 years of Contact North
Contact North's modest main office in Sudbury; its other main office is in Thunder Bay - 1,000 kilometres away! Paul, R. (2012) Contact North: A Case Study in Public Policy Sudbury ON: Contact North...
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Sir John crosses to the dark side? Public universities and outsourcing online...
PR Newswire (2012) Online Learning Pioneer, Sir John Daniel, Joins Academic Partnerships as Senior Advisor PRNewswire, December 4 From the article: Academic Partnerships announces that international...
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Online learning set to expand and become a core function in Ontario’s...
The flag of Ontario Contact North (2013) An Overview of the Strategic Mandate Agreement Proposals Prepared by Ontario’s Public Colleges and Universities: Online Learning Set to Expand and Become a Core...
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California buzzing with online learning
Cotterell, S. (2013) UC Online aims to increase number of courses offered online The California Aggie, January 22 Powell, S. (2013) CSU rolls out expansion of online courses Daily Sundial, January 30...
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MIT, learning technologies, and developing countries: lessons in technology...
This week I spent three days at the MIT LINC (Learning International Networks Consortium) conference in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the theme: ‘Realizing the Dream: Education Becoming...
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MOOCs, MIT and Magic
MOOC panel: Dan Hastings, Anant Agarwal, Tony Bates, Sanjay Sarma, John Daniel In my previous post, there were two sessions at the LINC 2013 conference that referred specifically to MIT’s own...
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What happened in online learning over the summer? – 1
Jervis Inlet, British Columbia I hope you have all had a wonderful summer break in the Northern Hemisphere. This has been the best summer since I moved to Vancouver 23 years ago – the driest and...
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Commonwealth of Learning celebrates 25 years of operation
CoL’s lifelong learning for farmers project Kanwar, A. (2013) Celebrating COL’s 25th Anniversary Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning I had the privilege of attending COL’s Board of Governors Reception...
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What happened in online learning in the summer? – 3
Egmont, BC An Ontario online university? I have a strict rule when reporting news to make sure it’s based on published secondary sources – in other words, if I get it wrong, I can blame someone else....
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A review of the HEQCO report on productivity and quality in online learning...
The view from HEQCO, Toronto Carey, T., & Trick, D. (2013). How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the Literature....
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Tom Carey’s reflections on the HEQCO report on online learning and...
© Leblanc, P., EDUCAUSE, 2013 Carey, T., & Trick, D. (2013). How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the Literature....
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Welcome back and a review of online learning developments in July and August
Here in Canada, tomorrow is the start of a new academic year. I know, because our garbage cans are full and the back lane is full of discarded furniture as the new students move into new lodgings...
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How online content development and delivery could improve the productivity of...
Content development at Laval University This is a continuation of the exploration of the potential for online learning to increase educational ‘productivity.’ Previous posts in this series include:...
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The World Academy Forum on the Future of Global Higher Education.
UC Berkeley I just came back from this conference at the University of California at Berkeley that took place between October 2-3. The World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) is an international...
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