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

Welcome back to online learning

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I hope all my readers in the northern hemisphere have had as good a summer as we have had here in Vancouver, and you...

How to remove the barriers to innovation in higher education and online learning

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Morriss-Olson, M. (2017) Why is it so difficult to nurture innovation and academic entrepreneurship at a college or university? Academic Impressions, March 9 Barriers to...

Discussing the future of higher education in the holiday season

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Mrig, A. and Sanaghan, P. (2019) The Future of Education: Will Higher Education Seize the Future or Fall Victim to IT? Academic Impressions I've been...

The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education: 3 – Some strategies for survival

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The issue I have argued in earlier posts that universities and colleges (everywhere, not just Canada) need to move more quickly into digital learning for...

The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education: 2 – The Canadian context

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This is the second in a series of posts on this topic. The first post looked at external developments that will influence Canadian post-secondary...

The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education: 1 – External Developments

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Where's the disruption? I don't normally get excited about talk of digital technology disrupting higher education, especially when that talk originates from south of the...

Online and problem-based learning: the Danish experience

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Aalborg University and digital learning I have just completed a visit to my third Danish university (University of Copenhagen in 2004, Syddansk University in 2017,...

Rethinking the purpose of online learning: 4. Developing skills for a digital society

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This series is turning out to be longer than I initially anticipated. In the first three posts I looked at the following possible reasons...

Ontario: leading Canada in online learning

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A couple of months ago, the Canadian Digital Learning Research Association (CDLRA) provided eCampus Ontario, one of the survey's main sponsors, with a regional...

Is Western Canada falling behind in online learning?

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Reports from the 2018 survey The main public report on online and distance learning in Canadian post-secondary institutions was published last month and is available,...