Friday, December 6, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Producing ‘innovative’ graduates and how online learning can help

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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...

A Franco-Canadian forum on MOOCs

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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...

Improving productivity in online learning: can we scale ‘the learning that matters most’?

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The story so far This is a continuation of the discussion on whether online learning can increase educational ‘productivity.’ Previous posts in this series include: Technology,...

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...

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...

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...

No. 5 aha moment: the Web as a universal standard

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This is the sixth in a series of posts about the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational technology, where I...

No. 4 aha moment: Computers for communication, not as teaching machines

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This is the fourth in a series of posts about the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational technology, where I...

The role of information sciences in online learning: a review of IRRODL, Vol. 13,...

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An overview of the papers IRRODL (the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning) has once again produced a fascinating themed edition, this...

An archive of alI I know about online learning

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At the recent COHERE conference I delivered two keynotes: Meeting the challenge of technology: are we failing as managers? Designing university teaching to meet the needs...