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

Unleashing web 2.0 for African learning

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Kasumuni, L. (2011) Unleashing web 2.0 for African Learning, eLearning Africa News Portal, June 8 The e-Learning Africa conference goes from strength to strength, emphasising...

Games and learning in digital worlds – en français

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The latest edition of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (Vol. 37. No. 2, 2011) has five articles on this topic, all in...

European research on e-learning 2.0

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Links-up is a European project: about how ‘Web 2.0’ technologies – e.g. social networking software – are changing the face of education and training for...

The digital future of higher education, on video

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Videos have now been posted of presentations at two conferences in British Columbia, both looking at the future of digital learning. The digital future of...

Instructional design: the times they are a’changing

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  Last week I attended a very interesting workshop, called Just ID,  at the University of British Columbia. The workshop was organized with the support of...

DE in Community Colleges in the USA: 2010 in review

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Lokken, F. (2011) Trends in eLearning: Tracking the Impact of eLearning at Community Colleges: 2010 Distance Education Survey Results Washington DC: Instructional Technology Council. This carefully conducted...

Book: Managing Technology in Higher Education now available

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Bates, A. and Sangrà, A. (2011) Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Co. Now out!...

Advice on online learning from 13 world experts

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Maxim Jean-Louis, as special advisor to the Minister on the Ontario Online Institute, has being doing a lot of homework recently. He asked 20 world...

Blackboard diversifies – but will it work?

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 Kolowich, S. (2011) Blackboard's next phase Inside Higher Education, February 22 I'm catching up a bit on some old news feeds, and thought this was...

California State System’s experience with e-books

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Roscoria, T. (2011) CSU System Shares e-Book Pilot Results Converge March 14 This reports on a large pilot with nearly 4,000 students across seven different...