Monday, October 7, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Bridging the Digital Dive: 2: Technology inequities and solutions

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McKenzie, L. (2021) Bridging the Digital Divide: Lessons from Covid-19 Washington DC: Inside Higher Education, February 2, 27 pp This is the second post in...

Online learning and (k-12) schools: 2. Technology and cost issues

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This is the second in a series of posts on online learning in the (k-12) school sector. The first was What needs to be...

Developing digital literacy for a digital world: a Québec report

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Conseil supérieur de l’éducation (2020). Éduquer au numérique, Rapport sur l’état et les besoins de l’éducation 2018-2020, Québec, Le Conseil, 96 p. In November, in...

Post-Pandemic Lesson 7. More attention is being paid to online access and equity

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This is the seventh of 10 Lessons from a Post-Pandemic World. For the other nine, click here. “Every institution needs a strategy to support students...

Network security, international students and online learning

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Lohrmann, D. (2020) Online learning still struggles - especially with security, government technology, September 20 Eckhart, B. (2020) To use or not to use virtual...

Online learning and Covid-19: Internet coverage in Canada

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Policy Many commentators have raised the question of inequity due to lack of Internet coverage. So what actually is the coverage like in Canada? According to...

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...

A look at online learning and digital wisdom from Madeira

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Madeira Madeira is a Portuguese island in the Atlantic about 200 kilometres west of north-west Africa. I'd never been there before this year, but now it's twice in...

Why digital technology is not necessarily the answer to your problem

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World Bank (2016) World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends. Washington, DC: World Bank. What is the report about? This 359 page report, partly funded by Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade,...

Synergies between online learning, on-campus teaching and flexible learning

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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...