By Doug Lederman. The consortium, which emerged from what was previously known as the Sloan Consortium, stages conferences, publishes scholarly journals and otherwise works with colleges and their leaders to promote the use and quality of digital education. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. Bills targeting for-profit institutions in California would prohibit tuition-sharing deals -- a sign of growing political scrutiny of the role of online program management companies. More...
Sometimes my designs worked and sometimes they did not. I learned what participants liked and what they did not like through course evaluations and from talk around the office. The true results, however, showed on the job. It didn’t take long for me to realize that a decent e-learning program requires more than a set of clickable PowerPoint slides. More...
Le Fffod souhaite étudier les avantages et freins de la formation à distance. Il propose à tout acteur et financeur dans la formation de participer à une enquête en ligne sur leurs pratiques. Plus...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Judy Baker: Span the Silos for Comprehensive Distance Education, EDUCAUSE Blogs September 21, 2005
The author taps into a common problem: departments that operate independently tend to remain insular, and staff within those departments remain unaware of the nature and work of the other department. The solution proposed - job shadowing, wherein an employee from one department shadows one from another department for a day or so - is less satisfactory. It takes too much time and is too disruptive, with too nebulous a gain, for most employees to contemplate. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Tom Hoffman: School Walk Out Organized Online, ESchool News September 21, 2005
OK, so 1500 students walked out of class at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. Nothing really unusual. More interesting is that they used an online sevice, Sconex, to organize it. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors: MSCTC Online Writing Lab, September 16, 2005
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. E-Learning 2.0
September 16, 2005 I spent the day at the Canadian Heritage Information Network engaged in a lengthy and free-wheeling discussion of the concepts surrounding E-Learning 2.0 Although the PowerPoint Slides for my presentation today are basically the same as those I used in Edmonton a few months ago, the discussio0n was much more wide ranging. Audio segments (each about an hour): Part One, Part Two, Part Three. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What E-Learning 2.0 means To You
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Eric Goldman: Details on Marquette's Participation in BSA's "Define the Line" Program September 13, 2005
Define the Line is an anti file sharing initiative launched by commercial software companies; last spring they announced a campus initiative, which this item update. The title is a bit misleading; few additional details are available, save for news about the distribution of posters, brochures and handouts, and the discussion of copyright infringement at a Campus Safety seminar. More...
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