Monday, May 5, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Responses to the Canadian survey of online and distance learning

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Hi, everyone, and welcome back. I hope you all had a great summer. As many readers will know, I am leading a team conducting...

Virtual Reality and education: some thoughts

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I spent a very interesting evening this week at a Vancouver VR Community event at Mobify's headquarters in downtown Vancouver. Mobify is a provider...

Pushing the boundaries of higher education – in Barcelona

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If you are going to push any boundaries, Barcelona is as good a place as any to do it. Home of Antoni Gaudi, Joan Miró,...

E-portfolios from Dublin City University to enhance student employability

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Dublin City University (2017) DCU launches new online learning portfolio to enhance student employability 24 May I have been neglecting my blog because I have...

Ontario funds research and innovation in online learning

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eCampus Ontario (2017) Research and Innovation: Funded Projects Toronto ON: eCampus Ontario A few days ago, eCampus Ontario officially announced nearly $2.5 million of grants...

A Spanish version of ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ is now available

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I am very pleased to announced that La Enseñanza en la Era Digital, a complete, open, online Spanish version of 'Teaching in a Digital Age', translated...

Maintenant publié: Les 10 fondamentaux de l’enseignement en ligne pour le personnel enseignant et...

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Contact Nord est venu de paraître l'édition française de 'The 10 Fundamentals of Teaching Online for Faculty and Instructors.' Ces guides visent à examiner quelques...

Latin American version of 10 Fundamentals of Teaching Online now available

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Professor Selin Carrasco, of la Universidad de la Punta in San Luis, Argentina, has developed a Latin American version (in Spanish, of course) of...

2016: The Year I Failed Retirement

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The new age of retirement I decided in April 2014 'to stop (nearly) all professional activities from now onwards'. I argued that 'it is dangerous...

Webinar on choosing modes of delivery and the role of face-to-face teaching in an...

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On Tuesday I gave another in the Contact North series of webinars designed around my open, online textbook for faculty and instructors, Teaching in...