Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Models for teaching by doing (labs, apprenticeship, etc.)

  Context I am gradually working my way through Chapter 4 on different models of teaching for my open textbook, 'Teaching in a Digital Age.' First drafts of...

The nature of knowledge and the implications for teaching

Teaching in a Digital Age I've now just published Chapter 2 of my open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age. Chapter 1 looks at the fundamental changes...

The success or otherwise of online students in the California Community College system

  Johnson, H. and Mejia, M. (2014) Online learning and student outcomes in California's community colleges San Francisco CA: Public Policy Institute of California, 20...

Learn to fly – online

Warnock, C. (2014) 1,600 students worldwide take online flight classes Daily Herald, April 5 "Yeah, you'll be telling me next that you can learn to...

Instructional design, the academy and industry: a ‘blended’ event

What: The Academy and Industry: Exploring Instructional Design Roles In a professional discipline, sometimes there can be uneasy tensions between those in the Academy (i.e. professors...

An ADDIE infographic for online training

© Commonwealth of Australia, 2014 Flexible Learning Australia has developed an interactive infographic for developing online training. Click here to access the graphic. Thanks to Richard...

EDEN Annual Conference 2014, Zagreb, Croatia

  What: E-learning at work and the workplace. This is the 2014 annual conference of The European Distance and E-Learning Network When: June 10 - 14, 2014 Where: The  Hypo...

Producing ‘innovative’ graduates and how online learning can help

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...

Commercial e-learning platform launched in Nigeria

Wakoba, S. (2014) Tutor.ng, an online tutoring platform with a marketplace for teachers launches to disrupt online learning in Africa, TechMoran, January 27 I have...

e-learning trends from South Africa

Chadwick, K. (2014) e-Learning Trends for 2014 Bizcommunity.com This is an interesting perspective on corporate e-learning trends from Kirsty Chadwick in South Africa. I've focused...