Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

How to get started in blended learning: an interview with Tony Bates

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Following my keynote at the ‘Dé Onderwijsdagen’ conference in the Netherlands this week (a blog post about my presentation and a video recording of the...

Spotlight on online experiential learning at Ryerson University

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A week or so ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Digital Education Strategies team at the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing...

Recorded webinar on use of media in higher education

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The second of four webinars on my open, online textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age, was 'broadcast' last Tuesday (3 November 2015) by Contact North. In...

Research on ‘academic innovation centres’ supporting online learning

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Bishop, M. and Keehn, A. (2015) Leading Academic Change: An Early market Scan of Leading-edge Postsecondary Academic Innovation Centers Adelphi ML: William E. Kirwan centre...

Don’t want to retire? Alternatives to dying on campus

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Kaskie, B. et al. (2012) Promoting Workplace Longevity and Desirable Retirement Pathways Within Academic Institutions TIAFF-CREF Institute, March Marcus, J. (2015) Aging faculty who won’t leave thwart...

Using scenarios to develop ‘soft’ skills

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Boller, S. (2013) Best Practices for Using eLearning in Soft Skills Training Bottom Line Performance, July 13 I blogged recently about the link between online learning...

MIT introduces credit-based online learning

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Bradt, S. (2015) Online courses + time on campus = a new path to an MIT master’s degree MIT News, October 7 MIT is famous for...

Australia moves backwards from online apprenticeship training

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Raggatt, M. (2015) Government slammed for dumping Energise Oz electrician apprenticeship program Brisbane Times, October 10 Those of you with Netflix may have been watching the...

Answering questions about teaching online: assessment and evaluation

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Following on from my Contact North webinar on the first five chapters of my book, Teaching in a Digital Age, and my blog post...

Reading between the lines: the ‘intangibles’ in quality online teaching and learning

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Contact North has organised a series of four webinars highlighting the practical advice and guidelines offered in my online, open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age....