Synergies between online learning, on-campus teaching and flexible learning
Kiczcales, G. (2014) Online to improve on-campus Digital Learning Blog, UBC, Vancouver BC, April 14.
UBC's flexible learning strategy
Nearly two weeks ago, Eric Grimson, the Chancellor...
Contact North on Online Learning, Innovation, Flexibility and Open Educational Resources
Contact North's humble office in Sudbury, OntarioContact North continues to produce a range of interesting short pieces on different aspects of online learning. (Disclaimer:...
Teaching assistants, adjunct faculty and online learning
I am struggling these days with the issue of who should teach online courses, in terms of qualifications and status, and in particular, the...
Contact North on How to Design an Innovative Course
Anon (2014) How to design an innovative course, Sudbury.Thunder Bay ON: Contact North
As reported in Contact North's Online Learning News:
There is a lot of pressure...
How problem-based learning can help develop innovation skills
Hoidn, S. and Kärkkäinen, K. (2014) Promoting Skills for Innovation in Higher Education A Literature Review on the Effectiveness of Problem-based Learning and of Teaching Behaviours...
Producing ‘innovative’ graduates and how online learning can help
Avvisati, F., Jacotin, G., and Vincent-Lacrin, S. (2013) Educating Higher Education Students for Innovative Economies: What International Data Tells Us, Tuning Journal for Higher...
2020 Vision: Outlook for online learning in 2014 and way beyond
Taking the long view
Doug Saunders in the Globe and Mail on January 4 wrote an interesting piece on prediction, entitled: "Gadgets alone don't make...
Productivity and online learning redux
Summarizing the previous posts
In previous posts (see end of this post), I tried to identify a range of areas where online learning might enable...
Leadership in open and distance education universities
The conference
For 20 years, the Standing Committee of Presidents (SCOP) of the members of the International Council of Distance Education (ICDE) has provided a...
A Franco-Canadian forum on MOOCs
The conference
Last week was a hell of a week. I was at a two-day conference in Lyon, France (jet-lagged most of the time with...