Mobile Online Courses

Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey is implementing an interesting model of mobile online course delivery that uses cloud computing technology and flash drives to deliver the courses. The goal is to make the courses accessible without the need for a constant Internet connection.

Read more about this initiative.

New Issue of Journal of Distance Education Published

Volume 23.3 of the Journal of Distance Education has been published. Here's the table of contents.

Research Articles
Teachers’ Perspectives on Motivation in High-School Distance Education
Elizabeth Murphy, María A. Rodríguez-Manzanares

Le développement professionnel des enseignants en contexte de mise en réseau de classes de petites écoles rurales : au-delà de l’alphabétisation technologique
Stéphane Allaire, Thérèse Laferrière, Julia Gaudreault-Perron, Christine Hamel

Learning From a Distance: The Experience of Remote Students
Janet Owens, Lesley Ann Hardcastle, Ben Richardson

Mobile Learning in Nursing Practice Education: Applying Koole's FRAME Model
Richard F. Kenny, Jocelyne M.C. Van Neste-Kenny, Caroline L. Park, Pamela A. Burton, Jan Meiers

An Exploration of Burnout Among Online University Professors
Jack Thomas McCann, Roger Holt

Dialogues
A Rose by Any Other Name: Still Distance Education - A Response to D.R. Garrison Implications of Online and Blended Learning for the Conceptual Development and Practice of Distance Education
Terry Anderson

FYI
Far Seeing and Far Reaching: How the Promise of a Distance Technology Transformed a Faculty of Education
George H. Buck

Book Reviews
Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education
Lorraine Mary Carter

Internationalizing the Curriculum at BCIT

BCIT's new strategic vision emphasizes internationalization; in this project, attitudes, strategies, and challenges around internationalization of the curriculum were revealed through surveys and interviews of BCIT instructors and students, as well as a literature review, and phone interviews of faculty at other institutions. Download the Internationalization of the Curriculum at BCIT report (PDF).

Principal investigators: Terry Fuller and Qin Liu

View Framework for Internationalizing the Curriculum presented in Toronto at the Canadian Bureau of International Education (CBIE) conference on November 10, 2009.