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

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...

A post-graduate certificate in neuroscience and online learning

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One of the interesting things I discovered during my visit to Drexel University a couple of weeks ago is that they offer a post-graduate...

Report on SFU’s experiences of teaching with technology

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I always enjoy going to a university or college and seeing how they are using learning technologies. I am always a little surprised and...

Second webinar on choosing media for online learning

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This morning I delivered (for the second time) a Contact North webinar: Choosing Media: How They Differ and How to make the Best Choices...

What I learned at Drexel University in National Distance Learning Week

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Fear and loathing in Philadelphia On Tuesday and Wednesday last week, I found myself in Philadelphia on U.S. Presidential Election day, and even more importantly, the...

Scary tales of online learning and educational technology

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The Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG) of British Columbia held an appropriately Halloween-themed get together today called 'The Little Workshop of Horrors' at which participants...

Initiating instructors to online learning: 10 fundamentals

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Click to download the pdf What? Not ANOTHER book from me? Well, no, not quite. 'Teaching in a Digital Age' has been a great success but...

More webinars on ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’

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Last year I did a series of five webinars on topics from my online, open textbook, 'Teaching in a Digital Age.' These proved to...

Welcome back and what you may have missed in online learning over the summer

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I hope you all had a great summer break and have come back fully charged for another always challenging year in teaching. I thought...

My encounters with grizzly bears

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I have always kept this blog as a strictly professional activity focused solely on online learning. However, I have something so extraordinary to report...