Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada offers free, online, their collection of "individual practitioners’ views of the principal pedagogical and course management opportunities and challenges raised by the move to an online environment." (quoting from the Preface). The online education methods they developed were a necessary response to a fiscal crisis in the 1990's. The methods resulted in a dramatic improvement in the quality and quantity of the University's offerings. They now share as a gift the benefit of their faculty's experience.
Theory and Practice of Online Learning (2004)
From the Introduction: "This book is written by authors from a single university — Athabasca University — which has branded itself “Canada’s Open University.” As an open university, we are pleased to be the first such institution to provide a text such as this one as an open and free gift to others. The book is published under a Creative Commons license (see http://creativecommons.org) to allow for free use by all, yet the copyright is retained by the University (see the copyright page for license details)."
Thanks to the Legal University Weblog for this discovery.
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