Educause: Volume 43, Number 2, March/April 2008

Hoy traemos el último número de Educause :

• Conference Connections: Rewiring the Circuit
  George Siemens, Peter Tittenberger, and Terry Anderson
  Increased openness, two-way dialogue, and blurred distinctions between experts and amateurs have combined with numerous technology tools for dialogue, personal expression, networking, and community formation to “remake” conferences, influencing not only how attendees participate in but also how organizers host conferences today.
• Architectures for Collaboration: Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries
  Peter Brantley
  Libraries are successful to the extent that they can bridge communities and can leverage the diversity of the quest, the research, and the discovery. By building bridges among various sectors, libraries will be able to define themselves in the next generation.
• E-Books in Higher Education: Nearing the End of the Era of Hype?
  Mark R. Nelson
  What is the reality with respect to e-books? Will e-books finally take off? After nearly two decades of talking about how e-books are right around the corner, have we finally reached the corner?
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  Open to Change: An Interview with Leaders of the Open University
  Richard N. Katz
  “The movement toward open content forces us to really think about what value it is we bring to students who enroll at the Open University. I think that we are getting to that tipping point—rethinking the underlying pedagogy with which we have conventionally delivered distance education and open learning.”

Para el que no la conozca:

«EDUCAUSE Review is the association’s award-winning magazine for the higher education IT community. Published bimonthly in print (21,000 distributed copies) and online, the magazine takes a broad look at current developments and trends in information technology, how they may affect the college/university as an institution, and what these mean for higher education and society. In addition to EDUCAUSE members, the magazine’s audience consists of presidents/chancellors, senior academic and administrative leaders, non-IT staff, faculty in all disciplines, librarians, and corporate staff/leaders. The magazine has won numerous editorial and design awards including APEX Awards for Publication Excellence, Magnum Opus Awards, Ozzie Awards, and a Tabbies Award, as well as being named Publication of the Year by the Colorado Society of Association Executives.»

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Fuente: [educause]

The Future of Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: The Survey Says… By Kyong-Jee Kim and Curtis J. Bonk

Hoy traemos un artículo interesante sobre enseñanza on line en la educación superior en el Volume 29 Number 4 2006 de Educause Quaterly.

Me ha encantado el título cuando habla de «Online teaching and Learning» y no titula símplemente e-learning… me gusta más Enseñanza-Aprendizaje en línea, la verdad es que es más largo, pero más esclarecedor, más completo y apunta claramente a un lugar determinado, a un modo de mirar, dentro del campo global.

También tenéis aquí el post que hace elearnspace de 21 de Noviembre de 2006 sobre el artículo: «The Future of Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: The Survey Says…» y los problemas presupuestarios…

A survey substantiates some ideas about online learning and refutes others

By Kyong-Jee Kim and Curtis J. Bonk

Institutions of higher education have increasingly embraced online education, and the number of students enrolled in distance programs is rapidly rising in colleges and universities throughout the United States. In response to these changes in enrollment demands, many states, institutions, and organizations have been working on strategic plans to implement online education. At the same time, misconceptions and myths related to the difficulty of teaching and learning online, technologies available to support online instruction, the support and compensation needed for high-quality instructors, and the needs of online students create challenges for such vision statements and planning documents.

In part, this confusion swells as higher education explores dozens of e-learning technologies (for example, electronic books, simulations, text messaging, podcasting, wikis, blogs), with new ones seeming to emerge each week. Such technologies confront instructors and administrators at a time of continued budget retrenchments and rethinking. Adding to this dilemma, bored students are dropping out of online classes while pleading for richer and more engaging online learning experiences.¹ Given the demand for online learning, the plethora of online technologies to incorporate into teaching, the budgetary problems, and the opportunities for innovation, we argue that online learning environments are facing a «perfect e-storm,» linking pedagogy, technology, and learner needs.² (leer más…)

Fuente: [educause quaterly]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, blog, educause

[not] Drop Patent, Educause Urges Blackboard

The leaders of higher education’s main technology association have written a powerfully worded letter urging Blackboard to relinquish the rights it gained under a controversial patent of online learning technologies in the public domain and to drop a patent infringement lawsuit it filed in August against a Canadian competitor, Desire2Learn.

“We believe this action would be in the best business interests of Blackboard and in the best interests of higher education,” Brian L. Hawkins, the president of Educause, and the group’s Board of Directors said in a letter to Blackboard this month. “We do not make this request lightly or underestimate the courage it will take to implement. However, we believe it is the right action for your corporation and our community.”(leer más…)

Fuente: [insidehighered]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, Blackboard, web 2.0, Educause