Pick Your Favorite Online Instructor for a Course on the 2008 Election
I intended to write a post addressed to the new president informing him, not that he asked, about what he should do to promote quality online education. But, after seeing a few letters in similar veins, I am attempting to […]
Pomp and Circumstance: The Value of Ceremony for Graduations
Suppose you complete a degree at accredited online institution, which would make you feel more like a graduate: 1) If you marched across a stage, shook the hands of dignitaries, and were handed a diploma? 2) If you get your […]
Tweed Jackets, Black Turtlenecks, and Speculation about Apple University
While the origin of “university” is guild or corporation, the modern definition is “an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools… and authorized […]
“I’ll probably be taking more courses online now”
The “US corporate market for Self-paced eLearning reached $5.2 billion in 2007” according to a report from Ambient Insight. This is roughly equivalent to the GNP of Burkina Faso, which used to be the most illiterate country in the world, […]
eLearning in the News
Just for fun and totally fabricated: ACM’s new president, Wendy Hall, a longtime advocate of e-learning, told me she had a new vision for eLearn Magazine. I flew to London where we met for afternoon tea at the Ritz. Wendy, […]