Open and Distance eLearning in Asia: Country Initiatives and Institutional Cooperation for the Transformation of Higher Education in the Region
Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria, Journal of Learning for Development, 2018/08/14
This article covers the region in very broad strokes, as is to be expected, but offers a good overview. It lists eight major mega open universities (with links and stats), some cooperation initiatives, and a number of open education initiatives (which are almost invariably based on MOOCs). More...

Outsourcing to India in Business Week and at MIT...
The point of this short item is to complain about two things: first, that MIT's OpenCourseWare was developed using Microsoft products, and second, that much of the back-end work was done in India. I can't get over the logic of the first - "We read a Gartner Group report that said the Microsoft system was the simplest to use among the commercial vendors and that open-source toolkits weren't worth considering." Sheesh. More...

Australian Public Broadcasters - Educational Resources
A bit of a departure for WWWTools this week as they look at the state of the debate surrounding the role of Australian public broadcasters in education. As readers Down Under will know, in August Australian Broadcasting cancelled 'Behind the News', a weekly summary of events accompanied with printed and online learning materials. More...