EET Learns

"Online education is often held out as a way to increase access to higher education, especially for those -- adult students, the academically underprepared, members of some minority groups -- who have historically been underrepresented in college. But that access is meaningful only if it leads somewhere, and if the education students get helps them reach their goals. New data from a long-term study by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College suggest that some of the students most often targeted in online learning's access mission are less likely than their peers to benefit from -- and may in fact be hurt by -- digital as opposed to face-to-face instruction. The study did not, however, account for the quality of the online courses studied, making it difficult to draw from its findings overly sweeping generalizations about the efficacy of online learning."

Interesting article on online learning - completion rates, completers . . .

BC is running a pilot between some key post-secondary institutions to provide online tutoring for writing for students.

A blog post with helpful tips on publishing an open textbook. Written for BCampus and their open textbook initiative, but most steps relate to publishing in general

Weebly for nursing PD day

The Global Index of Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment compares the performance of 39 countries and one region (Hong Kong) on two categories of education: Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment. The Index provides a snapshot of the relative performance of countries based on their education outputs."

County College of Morris Teaching Centre collects OER's on pinterest

Interesting....

Another interesting video and more what people think of when thinking about learning styles. I think that learning styles is conflated with learning intelligences much of the time.

Digital Badges for faculty PD

The Woodrow Wilson and MIT are doing some interesting things to transform how we educate future teachers.