Friday, June 20, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

How online content development and delivery could improve the productivity of post-secondary education

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Content development at Laval UniversityThis is a continuation of the exploration of the potential for online learning to increase educational 'productivity.' Previous posts in...

Tom Carey’s reflections on the HEQCO report on online learning and productivity: 2 –...

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Carey, T., & Trick, D. (2013). How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the...

A review of the HEQCO report on productivity and quality in online learning in...

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The view from HEQCO, TorontoCarey, T., & Trick, D. (2013). How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan...

Conference on science education at Western University

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I was at the Western Conference on Science Education on July 10-11. I gave a a public lecture on designing teaching for 21st century...

MOOCs, MIT and Magic

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MOOC panel: Dan Hastings, Anant Agarwal, Tony Bates, Sanjay Sarma, John Daniel In my previous post, there were two sessions at the LINC 2013 conference...

The beginning of the end of the lecture hall?

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The conference in Orlando University Business is a magazine that focuses on equipment and facilities, including IT and AV systems. UB thus has its pulse...

CNIE conference on Leadership and Innovation in Learning

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I was in Ottawa in early May also to give a keynote at the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education conference. I am ashamed...

Discussing design models for hybrid/blended learning and the impact on the campus

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 A couple of weeks ago I had an interesting meeting with about 25 instructional designers from UBC, where we discussed design models for hybrid...

Can you teach lab science via remote labs?

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Contact North (2013) The Colorado Community College System Sudbury ON: Contact North Contact North has been developing a series of posts on institutions that are 'game-changers'...

A MOOC platform open to all?

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Empson, R. (2013) edX Merges With Stanford’s Class2Go To Build An Open-Source Online Learning Platform Tech Crunch, April 3 Empson, R. (2012) Class2Go: Stanford’s New...