Archives For Research
The Chronicale of Higher Education points to an innovative web-based service Memorial University in Canada has developed called Yaffle which is essentially a matchmaking tool designed to bring together researchers at the University with the public and business. The goal of the project was to improve the Universities ability to communicate the breath and impact of its research. Yaffle has been running for just under a year and Memorial is considering commercializing, licensing or perhaps even making it available for free. This is one to watch…
David Nagel of Campus Technology refers to a market research report from Ambient Research that points to the their Chief Research Officers claim:
by 2014, at which time, Adkins forecast, only 5.14 million students will take all of their courses in a physical classroom, while 3.55 million will take all of their classes online, and 18.65 million will take some of their classes online.
While I am not surprised by these claims I and led to ask: What are we doing to prepare for this?
