Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Online learning and (k-12) schools: the role of parents

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

Online learning and (k-12) schools: do we need a different curriculum for online learning?

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

The importance of ‘intangibles’ in teaching and learning

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I'm going to raise a fundamental epistemological issue here about how we know things to be true. This starts off fairly abstractly but like...

Research reports on Covid-19 and emergency remote learning/online learning

Post last up-dated: 9 June, 2021 Since March 2020, there has been a flurry of research on emergency remote learning. Most published research up to...

Learning Analytics and ‘Learning Design’

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The latest edition of the journal 'Distance Education' is focused on the use of learning analytics: the aim of this special themed issue...is to foster...

Second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age now published

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The second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age is now available at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/teachinginadigitalagev2/ The first edition was published in 2015. The second edition is...

Chapter 11.4 Open pedagogy

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Figure 11.4.1 Current landscape of Open. Image: Paul Stacey, 2018 I am in the process of finalising a second edition of Teaching in a Digital...

Rethinking the purpose of online learning: 3. Supporting disadvantaged learners

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This is the third post in a series on rethinking the purpose of online learning. In the first post, I discussed Ontario's strategy of...

Is the current use of video a step backwards in online learning?

The use of video There is evidence from the two national surveys of online learning in Canadian post-secondary education that video is increasingly being used...

Why is innovation in teaching in higher education so difficult? 3. Learning management systems

Reasons for using a Learning Management System I pointed out in my previous post that the LMS is a legacy system that can inhibit innovation...