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15 mai 2016

What Ottawa Spends

By Alex Usher. The Parliamentary Budget Officer did everyone a solid yesterday by publishing a really helpful compilation of federal government expenditures on higher education. According to the publication, the Government of Canada in 2013-14 spent $12.3 billion on post-secondary education (not including money for apprenticeships, training programs or labour market agreements; that includes $5.1 billion for “human capital measures”, which is mostly Canada Student Loans and Tax Expenditures of various kinds, $3.5 billion for research, three-quarters of which is from the granting councils and the remainder through various departmental programs, and $3.7 billion through the Canada Social Transfer, which is a theoretically earmarked. More...

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15 mai 2016

Normal service will be resumed shortly

By Tony Bates. I have done no blogging over the last month or so as my wife and I have been taking a long vacation which included a spell of 12 days without any Internet connection while I was sailing in a small ship across the Atlantic from San Juan in Puerto Rico to Malaga in Spain. The rest of the time has been spent in Seville in Spain, Paris, France, and ending in England, where I am visiting family. More...

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15 mai 2016

Culture and effective online learning environments

By Tony Bates. Within every learning environment there is a prevailing culture that influences all the other components. In most learning environments, culture is often taken for granted or may be even beyond the consciousness of learners or even teachers. I will try to show why faculty, instructors and teachers should pay special attention to cultural factors, so that they can make conscious decisions about how the different components of a learning environment are implemented. More...

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15 mai 2016

A Retrospective on Implementing Common Course Management Systems

By Phil Hill. At e-Literate we mostly avoid blogging about our consulting work through MindWires Consulting, but we have an opportunity with our work for California’s Online Education Initiative (OEI) to share information with the higher education community on a topic of growing importance. More...

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15 mai 2016

Fall 2014 IPEDS Data: Interactive table ranking DE programs by enrollment

By Phil Hill. Last week I shared a static view of the US institutions with the 30 highest enrollments of students taking at least one online (distance ed, or DE) course. But we can do better than that, thanks to some help from Justin Menard at LISTedTECH and his Tableau guidance. More...

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15 mai 2016

We Have Personalization Backwards

By Mike Caulfield. I drive my oldest daughter to high school every day. She goes to a magnet STEM school in the district that’s on the campus where I work. I’ve been brainwashing her into liking indie rock one car ride at a time using carefully planned mix CDs. More...

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15 mai 2016

The Battle for “Personalized Learning”

By Michael Feldstein. So here we go again. Another terminology war. First there was the battle for open. Then the battle for MOOCs. Somewhere in there was the battle for edupunk. More...

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15 mai 2016

Arab Researchers Dive into “Big Data”

By Benjamin Plackett. The solution to a huge number of modern-day problems lies hidden in plain sight—obscured among tables of endless statistics and lines of binary zeros and ones. From the promise of better health care to the chance to wipe out traffic jams, there’s a mountain of unearthed opportunity just waiting to be mined. Fortunately, a rising number of researchers in the Arab world are taking on these huge datasets in search of answers. More...

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15 mai 2016

Damascus University Seeks to Combat Forged Degrees

By Riham Alkousaa. Damascus University recently issued its first digitally enhanced diplomas, part of an initiative to combat the use of forged certificates by students wanting to claim they graduated from the country’s oldest institution of higher education. More...

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15 mai 2016

Arts Back on the Agenda in Assiut

By Tarek Abd El-Galil. It’s been a long time coming, but after nearly 30 years of clampdown from extremist Islamists in the city, the arts are creeping back onto Assiut University’s campus with a successful film festival, and plans for more creative events to come. More...

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