By Ashley A. Smith. Joint degree programs between private and public colleges are being embraced as a way to meet growing demand for nurses with bachelor's degrees -- in less time. More...
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Public and Private Institutions Partner to Produce More Nurses, More Quickly
Cal State Sees Major Gains in Graduation Rates
By Ashley A. Smith. Administrators at the California State University System worried two years ago when the system set ambitious goals for increasing graduation rates. More...
Momentum for Prison Education
By Ashley A. Smith. Prison education programs are thriving and enjoy bipartisan backing, but colleges say they could do more with federal and state funding. More...
Online Professional Development in Support of Online Teaching: Some Issues for Practice
Online Professional Development in Support of Online Teaching: Some Issues for Practice
I've had a number of posts in my Community area concerning the use of telephones to support e-learning (mostly in favour, which surprises me a bit) so I thought this would be a good article to throw into the mixture. This paper doesn't address the blended approach directly but it's a fascinating examination of faculty attitudes toward teaching online (introduced with the observation that people tend to teach the way they were taught). More...
Learning Objects: A Practical Definition
Learning Objects: A Practical Definition
The September issue of the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning has arrived and I am running two articles, beginning with this item by Rory McGreal, who leaps once again into the fray with a (nother) definition of learning objects. Once again, McGreal has me defining learning objects as "anything and everything" but has this time managed to catch the nuance of my position - "Whether something counts as a LO, depends on whether it can be used to teach or learn, and this can only be determined by its use, not by its nature." But he still disagrees with me. More...
How's Your E-Learning
How's Your E-Learning
Interesting article, worth a quick read in its own right, but I must confess I was much more intrigued by the new advertising technique used by Syllabus here - the magazine has embedded 'sponsored links' in the text of the article, which when you hover over them, deliver annoying CSS pop-ups and (presumably) link to a sponsor page. More...
E-learning Products of the Future Will Operate in an Interconnected World
E-learning Products of the Future Will Operate in an Interconnected World
The author writes (correctly), "E-learning products of the future will operate in a world that is interconnected through information and communication technology (ICT) that will be used by all teachers, trainers and managers, not just IT 'geeks'." The remainder of the article serves to introduce a new online resource offered by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework called the 'VET Interoperability Framework'. More...
Private Providers "Critical to Australia's Education and Training System"
Private Providers "Critical to Australia's Education and Training System"
Australia is in the middle of an election, and I am in the middle of Australia, so I will tread a little carefully here. But that said, it has yet to be shown to me how private providers solve (rather than exaggerate) problems like equity of access, the advancement of social objectives, advertising-free educational content, and fair distribution of resources. More...
Virtual training on show at NET*Working 2004
Virtual training on show at NET*Working 2004
The Net*Working 2004 conference will be held online this year, and while organizers in this article are enthusiastic about the many new technologies that will be employed, I have noticed a certain amount of apprehension as to whether they will work. Certainly, my own experience with a wide variety of synchronous conferencing platforms has not been good. More...
MERLOT: A Model for User Involvement in Digital Library Design and Implementation
MERLOT: A Model for User Involvement in Digital Library Design and Implementation
Overview of the MERLOT project, including an account of the history and a nice outline of the role of the editorial boards. Nice organizational diagram though I will confess to some uncertainty as to why all this organizational structure and the $50,000 membership fees are necessary. More...
