Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Conference: Social Media in Vocational and Adult Training

Can you get to Brussels? If so, the Next Generation Learning Conference has a conference on: How to Integrate Social Media in Vocational and Adult...

BigMarker: a free, open web conferencing hub

For those interested in non-formal learning, you may want to take a look at BigMarker, a web 'hub' for those wanting to teach or...

Online simulations for bomb dispersal

New Security Learning (2011) Virtual training for bomb dispersal experts, Issue 8 A German company, szenaris GmbH, has developed a virtual reality simulation for the...

British police cut online training program

Rosthorn, A. (2011) Questions over training after the riots New Security Training, Issue 8 Rosthorn reports: Britain’s pioneering online police training website closes down next week,...

IRRODL June 2011

For the very few readers of this site who are not already subscribers, the latest edition of the International Review of Research in Open...

What the security services know about e-learning

One of the great things about e-learning is that it pops up in the most unexpected of places. This month's New security learning, Issue, No....

Beyond the campus: hope, trades training and skulduggery

  I spent a very interesting day at Camosun College’s professional development day last Tuesday. Camosun is a two year community college in Victoria, British...

How will glass affect the future of e-learning?

I don't often show commercials, but Corning's 'A Day Made of Glass' set me thinking about how its vision for the future could inspire...

Innovative e-learning in the Vancouver area

I worry about the often negative tone of many of my posts. It was therefore a great pleasure to attend the joint Justice Institute...

Skills development, credit transfer, quality assurance and the cost of technology in developing countries

These are all topics covered in the October issue of the Commonwealth of Learning's October edition of its Connections  journal. The Commonwealth of Learning is...