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Replace lecturers with videos
“The government are slowly getting around to tackling education in this country. They’re proposing an introduction of fees for students, cutbacks for special needs students … now they want to sack...
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E-learning: looking back on a great future?
“For the past ten years or so one of the big questions has been whether new online capabilities would transform the educational experience, and in particular whether a large number of students would in...
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Is Social Learning a fad? One Organization Seems to Believe So
“Reflecting upon the growing adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in enterprises and organizations, about two weeks ago I wrote a post called Shiny new technologies used by dusty old professions. In it I...
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Digital leap forward for universities
“France is launching a €16 million (US$23 million) ‘digitised university’ programme to install wireless internet connections and develop podcasting for online courses throughout the university system....
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‘The World Is Open’
“Technology is changing higher education in more ways than can be counted. Distance education has become common. Leading universities are putting course materials or even entire courses online – free....
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Online disruption of the classical university model
“A little while ago I blogged about the potential challenge which online education can pose for the traditional model of the university, comparing and contrasting the positions of newspapers and...
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Context for the Government’s 500 Million: Digital Media in Online Higher Ed
“Frederick M Hess wrote an interesting piece for Inside Higher Ed in which he questioned the logic and fairness of the U.S. government’s initiative to ‘provide $500 million to develop free, and “freely...
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Microsoft’s Vision for Higher Ed and Lecture Capture
“… Microsoft is in danger of becoming irrelevant at the front-lines of learning and teaching. How much space does Microsoft’s products and services occupy in the minds of our students? From what I can...
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Online Education’s Great Unknowns
“Distance learning has broken into the mainstream of higher education. But at the campus level, many colleges still know precious little about how best to organize online programs, whether those...
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2 Universities, Citing Concerns of Blind, Hold Off on Kindle
“The National Federation of the Blind will announce today that Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison are holding off on expansions of Kindle offerings for students until the...
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Technology, students and universities
“There are some – related – articles in today’s Irish Independent on themes which have featured on this blog. A report published yesterday by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) shows that the number...
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College teams up with Notre Dame for online theology course
“They might be studying texts thousands of years old but it’s all part of a high-tech course available without leaving home. Future theologians can earn their college qualifications with tutorials from...
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Hybrid Education 2.0
“What if you could teach a college course without a classroom or a professor, and lose nothing? According to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, there’s no ‘what if’ about it. Earlier in the...
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How the iPhone Could Reboot Education
“How do you educate a generation of students eternally distracted by the internet, cellphones and video games? Easy. You enable them by handing out free iPhones — and then integrating the gadget into...
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An Open Letter To All Irish Universities
“Dear cash strapped university heads, My name is James Foley, I’m in my third year of study in the University of Limerick and I have a confession to make. In my three years here, I’ve only bought two...
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Online encyclopaedias for 4,000 schools
“The country’s 4,000 schools are to get free access to online versions of the popular Encyclopaedia Britannica and World Book as part of an e-learning initiative announced today by the Minister for...
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Diana Oblinger on ‘The Future of Higher Education’ at EDUCAUSE ’09
“The economic downturn and society-wide changes catalyzed by information technology (disintermediation, consumerization, and so forth) are causing many colleges and universities to question what the...
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IT Sligo launches online lecture series
“Much like the iTunes U service from Apple, the Institute of Technology, Sligo, is launching a free online series of lectures in the form of webinars that begin on 27 January. IT Sligo, which also...
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Maryland System Leaders Try to Reverse Ruling That Blocked Online Program
“A fight between two public universities in Maryland rages on, with state-university leaders now trying to overturn a decision that impeded University of Maryland University College from offering an...
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‘Horizon Report’ Highlights 6 Technologies to Watch in Education
“‘The Horizon Report’, an annual guide to tech trends, comes out next week. And it’s predicting a new technology king: open content. After failing to make last year’s ‘Technologies to Watch’ list, the...
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