Friday, March 29, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Why, ‘logically’, online learning is superior to face-to-face teaching

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The issue I came to this conclusion in the middle of the night by worrying at the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous learning. (Yeah, I...

12 shortish videos on Teaching in a Digital Age

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The videos At the request of the Commonwealth of Learning, I have, with their help, developed 12 short videos introducing the main themes of my...

Learning analytics in online learning: trying hard but need to do better

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I have now covered all five main articles in the special August issue of the journal Distance Education on learning analytics (because it is...

Second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age now published

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The second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age is now available at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/teachinginadigitalagev2/ The first edition was published in 2015. The second edition is...

Chapter 11.4 Open pedagogy

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Figure 11.4.1 Current landscape of Open. Image: Paul Stacey, 2018 I am in the process of finalising a second edition of Teaching in a Digital...

Back to the Future: open pedagogy, learning design, and ETUG’s 25th anniversary conference

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  Happy anniversary, ETUG! Last week I spent two days at the British Columbia Educational Technology Users' Group conference at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops. ETUG was...

(Almost) free books on online learning

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I did a big clear-out over the holiday period and found a whole batch of brand new printed copies of three of my books....

A discussion on the risks and benefits to education of AI and automation

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I was interviewed recently by Cecília Tomás, a Ph.D. student at Universidade Aberta, the Portuguese Open University, for her thesis on the Internet of...

Online learning in 2016: a personal review

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                            Image: © Institute for Economics and Peace. Canada is ranked seventh most peaceful. We don't know where it ranks though in terms of online...

5 IDEAS for a pedagogy of online learning

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Guardia, L. (ed.) (2016) Next Generation Pedagogy: IDEAS for Online and Blended Higher Education. Barcelona Spain: UOC eLearn Centre. This report aims to provide a “roadmap”...