The Draft New Zealand Tertiary Education Strategy (for 2011 to 2014) has been released for consultation.
Full press release

A lot of mainstream education providers are willing to sell their soul for their next fix of government funding. Best practise e-learning does not require government funding to work. The opportunity to break free of the government purse strings leaves us with no reason to jump through the usual hoops. It allows us to provide what our learners need, when and where they need it.

Tertiary Education Minister Anne Tolley has today released the Government’s draft Tertiary Education Strategy 2010-2015 for consultation. “The draft strategy sets out the direction the Government wants tertiary education to take in the next five years. With a growth in demand we need to ensure the best return on the public’s investment.

An interesting article from Business Week discussing online education in relation to traditional higher education providers in the United States. Many of the issues identified apply equally in New Zealand – if not more so as the US is much further along the curve when it comes to elearning provision and uptake. I’d love to [...]

BNET: The Rise of the Virtual MBA
Distance learning has come a long way since the first “Get your diploma by mail” ad appeared in the back of a magazine. In a year when 4 million Americans took a class over the Internet, the phrase “online degree” can describe everything from a diploma mill to the [...]

Try this refreshingly succinct list which sets out the pros and cons of e-learning. If you are beginning to explore the benefits e-learning might offer you or your orgnisation, this sets out the basics well. This is not a ‘business case’ for e-learning, instead it looks more at how the nature of elearning sets it apart from other types of teaching and learning.

Te Wananga o Aotearoa are currently inviting applications for a Site Coordinator to be based at Arai te Uru Kokiri Centre, 51 Macandrew Road, Dunedin. The job description and person specification for this role are in this post…

Welcome to our world of elearning. We use best practise approaches to deliver excellent e-learning using software like Moodle through our own online campus. We use those same skills to provide e-learning capability to other organisations.

We offer a wide range of elearning courses through our own E-Campus. Our E-Campus uses the Moodle learning management system, widely used by the best Tertiary Education organisations throughout the world.

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