Readings+&+Web+Links

April 19, 2011

Web 2.0 Business Models



April 13, 2011

Great information on services available to distance learners from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - valuable resources!

[|Student Support and Resources]

April 8, 2011

Learning Management Systems - Open Source!

Case Study on Strategic Alliances: The online Master of Distance Education & Certificate in Distance Education programs jointly offered by the University of Maryland University College & Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, by Ulrich Bernath



April 1, 2011

An article by Borje Holmberg entitled //On the Potential of Distance Education in the Age of Information Technology//

March 18, 2011

Here is a useful link I found when working with cost effectiveness and cost efficiency in DE:

[|Cost and Financing in Open Schooling/Efficiency and Effectiveness of ODL/Introduction]

February 1, 2011

An interesting article I found during Module 1, debating if a college education is worth the price??? What do you think???

[|Learning by Degrees]

Required textbooks for the course included:
 * 1) Bates, A. W. (2005). //Technology, e-learning and distance education.// London New York : Routledge.
 * 2) Rumble, G. (Ed.). (2004). //Papers and debates on the costs and economics of distance education and online learning (Vol. 7).// Oldenburg: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.
 * 3) Rumble, G. (1997). //The Costs and Economics of Open and Distance Learning//. London : Kogan Page.

Our pre-week enlightened us to the Global Education Database, where we configured our own query to compare educational statistics [].



In addition, each module contains relevant readings from journal articles, web sites, or other sources, which can be found in the respective module pages of my wiki.