Chronicle Article: India’s ministry in charge of higher education says it will make low-power laptops available, at a cost of just $10 apiece, to the Indian market within six months — as part of a major initiative to increase the number of students going to college, The Indian Express reports.
R. P. Agrawal, India’s secretary of higher education, told the newspaper that online courses are the only way to bring quality education to remote areas of the country. He added that the ministry is working out ways to beam lectures from the Indian Institute of Technology across the country. “We will be providing free e-content to students,” Mr. Agrawal said.
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January 30, 2009
January 28, 2009
Innovative Louisiana CC Program Offers Online Classes via Cell Phone
From Community College Week:
If you’re one of the one million people in Louisiana who own a BlackBerry or similar device, you soon could be taking college courses while text messaging your friends.
If you’re one of the one million people in Louisiana who own a BlackBerry or similar device, you soon could be taking college courses while text messaging your friends.
The Louisiana Community and Technical College System last month introduced its innovative LCTCSOnline, being touted as one of the nation’s first programs offering college courses on a cellular device.
January 26, 2009
Free Global Online University
Will this new higher education model succeed? Maybe.
But make no mistake… the powerful combination of digital open educational resources, social networking, retiring baby-boomer volunteers, falling technology and bandwidth prices, variable cost structures, and the billions of people globally who need / want access to a higher education … is real – and it will drive change.
January 25, 2009
January 19, 2009
WA CTC's Strategic Technology Plan
The Strategic Technology Plan is the product of an 18-month analysis conducted by the Technology Transformation Task Force of the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges for the purpose of creating a roadmap for how our system needs to leverage 21st Century technologies to support student achievement.
January 9, 2009
Educause Names Top Teaching with Technology Challenges for 2009
After four months of spirited discussion, the EDUCAUSE teaching and learning community has voted on the, “Top Teaching and Learning Challenges, 2009.” The final list for 2009, ranked by popularity, includes (click on individual Challenges to visit their wiki page):
- Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation.
- Developing 21st-century literacies among students and faculty (information, digital, and visual).
- Reaching and engaging today's learner.
- Encouraging faculty adoption and innovation in teaching and learning with IT.
- Advancing innovation in teaching and learning (with technology) in an era of budget cuts.
Video: History of the Internet
From Read/Write Web:
If you've ever wondered how the Internet was born, but can't be bothered reading a whole book on the subject, check out this short animated documentary from Milah Bilgil. Entitled History of the internet, it does a great job explaining time-sharing, file-sharing, arpanet and internet.
If you've ever wondered how the Internet was born, but can't be bothered reading a whole book on the subject, check out this short animated documentary from Milah Bilgil. Entitled History of the internet, it does a great job explaining time-sharing, file-sharing, arpanet and internet.
January 5, 2009
Rethinking Student Services
Vision this:
1. every one of our studnets has a mobile device with 3G connectivity (i.e., “fast”), and
2. student services, (some) instruction, library services, financial aid, registration, college news, shuttle service, and any other web-based service you can think of …. are delivered through it.
See the articled (Chronicle / Time) and watch the video (33 seconds).
US Dept Ed Statistics "First Look" at Distance Education - December 2008
From Ray Schroeder's blog.
US Dept Ed Statistics "First Look" at Distance Education - December 2008
At the end of December, 2008, the US Dept of Education released the results of their first look at distance learning in higher education. They found that 2/3 of colleges and universities are offering online, hybrid/blended, or other distance learning.
Areas covered in the report:
• Whether institutions offered various types of distance education courses, and enrollment in those courses, including online, hybrid/blended online, and other distance education courses;
• Number and types of degree or certificate programs designed to be completed totally through distance education;
• Technologies used for the instructional delivery of distance education courses;
• Factors affecting institutions’ decisions about distance education;
• Distance education offerings for elementary or secondary students; and
• Ways in which institutions acquired or developed their distance education courses.
Findings include:
The most common factors cited as affecting distance education decisions to a major extent were meeting student demand for flexible schedules (68 percent), providing access to college for students who would otherwise not have access (67 percent), making more courses available (46 percent), and seeking to increase student enrollment (45 percent) (table 12).
US Dept Ed Statistics "First Look" at Distance Education - December 2008
At the end of December, 2008, the US Dept of Education released the results of their first look at distance learning in higher education. They found that 2/3 of colleges and universities are offering online, hybrid/blended, or other distance learning.
Areas covered in the report:
• Whether institutions offered various types of distance education courses, and enrollment in those courses, including online, hybrid/blended online, and other distance education courses;
• Number and types of degree or certificate programs designed to be completed totally through distance education;
• Technologies used for the instructional delivery of distance education courses;
• Factors affecting institutions’ decisions about distance education;
• Distance education offerings for elementary or secondary students; and
• Ways in which institutions acquired or developed their distance education courses.
Findings include:
The most common factors cited as affecting distance education decisions to a major extent were meeting student demand for flexible schedules (68 percent), providing access to college for students who would otherwise not have access (67 percent), making more courses available (46 percent), and seeking to increase student enrollment (45 percent) (table 12).
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