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There is no doubt in my mind that eLearning is an important topic for the maritime industry. All of us involved in maritime education, whatever our views on eLearning, are going to have to come to terms with it. This is the first installment in a series of articles where I take a step back […]
The accounting major at Virginia State University got by in several courses with study groups and professors’ lectures. “It’s not that I didn’t want to buy,” he says. “Sometimes, I just didn’t have the money for a $200 book.” VSU, a 129-year-old historically black college in Petersburg, Va., knows Martin isn’t the only one. More […]
I propose five factors — peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata — as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles, a constellation of five independent criteria within a multi-dimensional publishing universe against which online journal articles can be evaluated, to see how well they match up with current visions for […]
With a cumulative enrollment of 2.02 million learners, Sitansu S Jena, Chairman, National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), talks to Tirna Ray on how open schooling can educate India SOURCE: The Times of IndiaFull Article
Wikipedia has decided to black out the English version of the online encyclopedia for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Wikipedia’s move follows the lead of other Internet sites, including social news site Reddit which will black out its site for 12 hours on the same day.SOURCE: MacworldFull […]
New study examines availability, variety of apps for mobile devicesFull Article
The space between nonprofit and for-profit higher education gets a little more crowded today. University Ventures Fund, a $100 million investment partnership founded by a quartet of veterans of the for-profit and nonprofit education sectors, is the latest entrant in a market that aims to use private capital to expand the reach and impact of […]
For a subscription-based content vault like JSTOR, the economy of the modern Web is a double-edged sword.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationFull Article
Quick Response (QR) codes—those black-and-white squares that look like a cross between supermarket bar codes and postage stamps—have real potential for school communications.SOURCE: eSchool NewsFull Story
Professor Olufunke Lawal, the Director, Distance Learning Institute (DLI), University of Lagos, in this interview with Akinduro Akinrolabu, speaks on the relevance and challenges of the institute. Excerpts:SOURCE: Saturday TribuneFull Article