Sunday, April 20, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Kuali Foundation goes commercial

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Straumsheim, C. (2014) Kuali Foundation: If you can't beat them....., Inside Higher Education, August 25 While there are several providers of open source learning management...

Special edition on research on MOOCs in the journal ‘Distance Education’

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The August 2014 edition of the Australian-based journal, Distance Education (Vol.35, No. 2.), is devoted to new research on MOOCs. There is a guest editor,...

WCET’s analysis of U.S. statistics on distance education

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U.S.Department of Education (2014) Web Tables: Enrollment in Distance Education Courses, by State: Fall 2012 Washington DC: U.S.Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics Hill,...

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

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  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...

A balanced research report on the hopes and realities of MOOCs

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Hollands, F. and Tirthali, D. (2014) MOOCs: Expectations and Reality New York: Columbia University Teachers' College, Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, 211 pp We...

More developments in online labs

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Zalaznik, M. (2014) Online labs evolve University Business, May What's happening This article reports on the following developments in online labs: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has created an...

What I learned from the Open Textbook Summit

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BCcampus (2014) Five lessons learned at the Open Textbooks Summit Vancouver BC: BCcampus BCcampus organized an open textbook summit again this year (the first one...

Why successful consortia for online learning are so difficult

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Fishman, R. (2013) State U Online Washington DC: The New America Foundation Fishman, R. (2014) Seeking Your Input on Online Consortia and Online Community Colleges WCET...

Contact North on Online Learning, Innovation, Flexibility and Open Educational Resources

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Contact North's humble office in Sudbury, OntarioContact North continues to produce a range of interesting short pieces on different aspects of online learning. (Disclaimer:...

Learn to fly – online

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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...