Depth and Superficiality: E-learning and Global Culture
Outline and link to a presentation looking at the impact of culture on e-learning. The author argues that while most e-learning today merely presents content, such e-learning will not produce a lot of change in the learner and will need eventually to be replaced with new, "deep", technology. More...
Canadian Elearning Workshop 2004
Good coverage of today's Elearning workshop in Vancouver, including my own talk this morning. The meeting is a summary of projects funded by CANARIE, including our own eduSource project. More...
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Machine learning has moved from a mere rave into a real strong, acknowledged learning power (not only in the news, but also on the stock market of AI, e.g. STOXX AI global indices - I was quite surprised to see this). Machine learning has the power to support personalized learning, as well as adaptive learning, which allows an instructional designer to engage learners in such a way that learning outcomes can be reached in more than one way (always a benefit!). More...
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is publishing a report on the past, present and future of students’ unions in the UK. Released just before the new academic year begins, the report traces the history of student representation in higher education to show its role in higher education debates. More...
From this autumn, undergraduates from Wales will no longer get a tuition fee grant. As a result, tuition fee loans will more than double (to £9,000 for those studying in Wales), embedding high tuition fees and loans across more of the UK. Maintenance support is changing too. Although there is to be a new universal maintenance grant, many will be expected to take on larger maintenance loans. More...
The UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute and Canada’s Higher Education Strategy Associates are jointly publishing a new research paper on charging people from poorer backgrounds less for higher education. Targeted Tuition Fees: Is means-testing the answer? by Alex Usher and Robert Burroughs is being simultaneously published in the UK and Canada. More...
The top 20 most-read entries were, unsurprisingly, headed by our ground-breaking research with Kaplan International Pathways and London Economics on the benefits to the UK of hosting international students. We remain hopeful that this will have helped the Migration Advisory Committee come to sensible conclusions in their soon-to-be-published report. More...
They have very odd things to say about including students in a net migration target. In fact, they are trying to ride two horses at the same time. First, they say there is no problem with including students in the target because most students leave the UK after their studies (which is true). Then, elsewhere, they say the Government and educational institutions should continue seeking to increase the number of international students. More...
HEPI’s report on means-tested tuition fees and / or maintenance support is a welcome contribution to the debate about how to pay for mass higher education without making higher education appear too expensive for students from lower-income backgrounds. But it is not just lower-income students who need encouragement. More...
In April, the Open University released a report showing that, a year after its introduction, 92 per cent of apprenticeship Levy funds went unspent, to the tune of almost £1.3 billion. Since then, concerns have continued to grow that organisations are simply writing the Levy off as a tax and Freedom of Information requests submitted for his piece have shown the percentage of unspent Levy funds is yet to decline. More...
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