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Udacity continues Massive online course
I wrote earlier about Norvig and Thrun’s experiement with massive online courses and how it would impact on the university model this century. I am now following another link in the experiment, Udacity. Tweet
Tablet ownership amongst students growing rapidly
I have been predicting the increase of tablet computing in the general endpoint ecology for some time, and others have been there with me. Just last year there was a study which showed that students were ready to go to … Continue reading
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Tagged Dev, education, Elearning, eresources, higher education, online, web 2.0
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Effectiveness of fully on-line courses for HE
I and many others have been writing about online learning for some time, asking what mix is most effective and what needs to happen to help students succeed with this medium. Meanwhile, there has been increasing pressure to increase enrollments … Continue reading
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Interview with Center for 21st Century Universities
Chronicle did an interesting, if too brief, interview with Richard A. DeMillo and Paul M.A. Baker, of the Center for 21st Century Universities where they discussed the threat to traditional HEs who focused on the wrong value proposition and tried … Continue reading
Students use technology badly to criticise university lectures
In a mixed video stream, a number of student submissions railing on university lectures serves as an ironic critique of university lectures. Tweet
Two new platforms to rival Apple ebook platform recently announced
There was quite a bit of activity recently over the announcement by Apple of iBooks Author. Now two other platforms are gaining some profile regarding their offerings. To me, it just shows à al Christensen, how ripe the market is … Continue reading
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Tagged copyright, Elearning, eresources, higher education, OER, online, publishing, university
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Questions being asked publicly on how much eresource access should cost
So I have been arguing for some time that the business models that online publishing in academia are pursuing are failing to match the new digital world, to leverage digital technologies and scale up their user base. Apple has demonstrated … Continue reading
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Tagged digital, economics, Elearning, eresources, higher education, publishing, research
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New entrant in the etextbook market – Amazon
I did write that big moves were happening in academic publishing and it just got bigger. The big five thought that they were wrapping it up with Blackboard, and McGraw-Hill opened the gate by throwing open the door to all … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, digital, ebooks, education, Elearning, eresources, higher education, publishing
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Online students more likely to not complete than f2f students
The Chronicle writes about a study from the Community College Research Center at the Teachers College at Columbia University that finds that Community-college students enrolled in online courses fail and drop out more often than those whose coursework is classroom-based. … Continue reading
Blackboard making ties with all major academic textbook publishers
In a pre-calculated move, Blackboard has just released news that it is now making interoperability deals with remaining four of the big five of the US HE textbook market to wrap it all up in a single stance of corporate … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackboard, Elearning, higher education, LMS, online, publishing, VLE
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