Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

New book on Web 2.0 and Social Informatics for Tertiary Learning

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Lee, M. and McCoughlin, C. (2010) Web 2.0 Based e-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Learning Hershey PA: IGI Global, 415 pp, US$180 hardback Description...

Implementing e-portfolios in a two year college

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Schaffhauser, D. (2010) Cultural Shift at a Community College: E-Portfolios Go Campuswide Campus Technology, August 12 This article on an excellent e-portfolio implementation strategy at...

The state of mobile phone learning in Africa

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Talent Ng’andwe (2010) Mobile Phone Learning on the Move in Africa, e-Learning Africa News Portal, June 28 From the article: By 2009, about one third of...

Google Wave comes to an end

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McCracken, H. (2010) Google axes Wave PC World, August 4 Google's Urs Hölzle has blogged that the company is ceasing development on Wave. Several analysts have...

Summer books for e-learners

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To follow up on my blog 'In defence of books', for those of you going off on a summer break, here's some book suggestions,...

In defence of the book and other thoughts on the digitalization of knowledge

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I have been struggling with the concept of books and publishing for some time now. I have authored over 10 books published 'traditionally', i.e....

More news on video games

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From Natasha Boskic: Serious games in elementary and high schools Goldman, T. (2010). Miyamoto Focusing on Getting DS into Schools. The Escapist Magazine, 21 Mar 2010. With...

iPad versus books

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Foresman, C. (2010) iPad gets the university treatment this fall Wired, July 24 A summary of the various initiatives taking place this fall semester in...

Wikis and academic scholarship

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Kolowich, S. (2010) Whither wikis? Inside Higher Education, July 14 This article takes a broad look at the use of wikis, particularly for academic scholarship/research,...

Another view on research for the Ontario Online Institute

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Maxim Jean-Louis, the President of Contact North, was one of the participants in the recent HEQCO meeting to discuss possible areas of research that...