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27 mai 2017

Why Education in IT Fields is Different

By Alex Usher. A couple of years ago, an American academic by the name of James Bessen wrote a fascinating book called Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages and Wealth. (It’s brilliant. Read it). It’s an examination of what happened to wages and productivity over the course of the industrial revolution, particularly in the crucial cotton mill industry. And the answer, it turns out, is that despite all the investment in capital which permitted vast jumps in labour productivity, in fact wages didn’t rise that much at all. Like, for about fifty years. More...

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27 mai 2017

Conservative Leadership Platform Analysis

By Alex Usher. Actually, it was a pretty quick exercise because it turns out almost no one in the Tory leadership race places much importance on post-secondary education, skills, innovation, youth. They seem to care a lot about taxes, and immigration (and to a lesser extent guns), but for a party that was in government less than two years ago, the Conservative candidates seem to have remarkably little appreciation for the things that actually drive a modern economy. Anyways, briefly, here is what the candidates say about the issues this blog cares about. More...

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27 mai 2017

Naylor Report, Part II

By Alex Usher. What’s best about the report? The history and most of the analysis are pretty good. I think a few specific recommendations (if adopted) might actually be a pretty big deal – in particular the one saying that the granting councils should stop any programs forcing researchers to come up with matching funding, mainly because it’s a waste of everyone’s time. More...

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27 mai 2017

Latest data on USA distance education enrolments

By Tony Bates. Indeed there has been a considerable shake-up in the for-profit sector in the USA, the purchase of Kaplan by Purdue, a state-funded university, being the latest example. It will be interesting to watch what happens to the for-profit DE enrolments under the more liberal regulatory environment being brought in by the Trump administration. Will they rebound. More...

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27 mai 2017

One business case for OER examined

By Tony Bates. Distance Education is one of the oldest and most established journals in the field. It is the journal of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) and over the years it has published some of the best research in distance education. However, it is not an open access journal, so I am providing my own personal review of one of the articles in this, generally excellent, edition. I should point out though that I am a member of the editorial board so do have an interest in supporting this journal. More...

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27 mai 2017

Rubrics as part of online MOOC peer reviews #mooc #elearning

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. An addition to the EdTech options that I am currently organising. A rubric is a grading tool used within a course (blended or online courses) which is used to enable students as well as learners to understand what is expected of them in terms of solving an assignment or reviewing assignments from their peers. Read more...

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