Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Book review: Teaching and Learning in Digital Worlds

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Gisbert, T. and Bullen, M. (2015) Teaching and Learning in Digital Worlds: Strategies and Issues in Higher Education Tarragona Spain: Publicacions Universitat Rovira i...

Some (further) thoughts about ‘agile’ learning design

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In my online, open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age, I felt I needed a separate section on agile learning design, to capture some...

MIT and German research on the [appalling] use of video in xMOOCs

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Hansch, A. et al. (2015) Video and Online Learning: Critical Reflections and Findings From the Field Berlin DE: Alexander von Humbolt Institut für Internet und...

EDUCAUSE looks beyond the (current) LMS environment: is it a future we want?

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Brown, M, Dehoney, J., Millichap, N. (2015) The Next Generation Digital Learning Environment: A Report on Research EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative What is it about? EDUCAUSE has published...

Last chapter of Teaching in a Digital Age now published

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Chapter 12, Supporting teachers and instructors in a digital age, the last chapter of my online, open textbook for teachers and instructors, Teaching in...

Ensuring quality teaching in a digital age: key takeaways

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I have now completed and published Chapter 11, 'Ensuring quality teaching in a digital age', for my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital...

10 key takeaways about differences between classroom, blended, online and open learning

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Lucky readers: you get a bonus! This is really a brief summary of all of the ten previous posts on this topic, which constitute...

A future vision for OER and online learning

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For each chapter of my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age, I am developing imaginary but hopefully realistic scenarios. In this scenario,...

The implications of ‘open’ for course and program design: towards a paradigm shift

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I am usually very cautious not to use the term 'paradigm shift', but I do believe that the term is justified by the implications of...

Integrating open textbooks, open research and open data into teaching

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This is the third of five posts on open education for my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age. The previous two posts...