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17 May 08

NussbaumOnDesign The End of The One Laptop Per Child Experiment--When Innovation Fails. - BusinessWeek

An interesting report on the admission of the failure of the OLPC experiment. More a problem of culture and context than innovation.

www.businessweek.com/...the_end_of_the.html - Preview

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  • The lesson here is that however brilliant the innovation, it needs to be appropriate to the context and the culture. It needs to fit in and not be imposed. And it needs coalitions, teams, to support it. In fact, in the case of education, which is extremely politically sensitive in every country, OLPC should have developed both the design of the computer and the pedagogy with the Indian and Chinese teachers and administrators, not for them.
15 May 08

::: Brihaspati, E- content delivery system - University Grant Commission :::

  • IIT Kanpur has developed an Open-source, Freeware E-learning Platform that is available to all for enhancing existing learning environments in their institutions through their campus networks. A pamphlet on this is available at http://home.iitk.ac.in/~ynsingh/tool/pamphlet.pdf
06 May 08

Surge in Distance Ed at Community Colleges :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs

  • In the survey — completed by 320 institutions, a representative sample of community colleges nationally — the council found that online enrollments had increased by 15 percent on average over the last year, during a period when community colleges’ total enrollment was up by 2 percent.



    In addition, 70 percent of responding institutions reported that there was more student demand for distance learning than they could meet.



    “I think this shows that this is the area where a lot of the future growth and vitality of community colleges will be found,” said Fred Lokken, a member of the board of the council who presented the data at the AACC meeting, in Tampa.

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