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Book: Managing Technology in Higher Education now available

We would like to share with you this interesting post from tonybates.ca: Bates, A. and Sangrà, A. (2011) Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Co. Now out! The book is available in cloth or e-book from Jossey-Bass, at US$45 a copy (but see below), or [...]

Saudi higher education: The National Center of E-learning and Distance Learning

The National Center of E-learning and Distance Learning guides the various efforts of Saudi higher education institutions to develop digital content, enrich the curricula and facilitate learning to achieve excellence in the educational process as a whole. For those services to be implemented and provided, it was essential to create a main stream to communicate [...]

Open source software for research administration

I try not to use this site to promote particular products or services, but occasionally something that is likely to be of genuine interest to readers comes up – hence my previous posting on the Canadian launch of the iPad. In a similar vein, the development of the Kuali consortium and its goal of developing [...]

GETEX Dubai

GETEX was launched in 1984 as the Gulf Education & Training Exhibition in Dubai. The event focused on bringing higher education options from around the world to students in the Middle East. Having ventured into Bahrain and India over the more recent past, and with more international locations in sight, the brand is now migrating [...]