Friday, January 17, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Talking numbers about open publishing and online learning

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Please forgive me here for a little self-indulgence. By sheer coincidence, two statistics converged yesterday. 2 million blog post hits First, I passed the 2 million...

Examining ethical and privacy issues surrounding learning analytics

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Drachsler, H. et al. (2016) Is Privacy a Show-stopper for Learning Analytics? A Review of Current Issues and Their Solutions Learning Analytics Review, no. 6,...

EDEN 2016: Re-imagining Learning Environments

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The EDEN conference I have just attended the annual conference of the European Distance and E-Learning Network in Budapest, Hungary. EDEN is one of my favourite conferences...

A full day of experiential learning in action

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On Wednesday, February 17, the Chang School of Continuing Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto, put on an impressive one day conference, called ChangSchoolTalks, focused on...

Webinar recording: How open education will revolutionize higher education

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Last Tuesday I did a Contact North webinar on the above topic. This was the last of five webinars based on my book, Teaching...

CAUCE-CNIE conference, 2016: Education 3.0

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What: TARGET: EDUCATION 3.0, Possibilities at The Nexus of Pedagogy, Technology and Access Creative pedagogy coupled with openly shared digital resources are inspiring educators to explore...

EDEN conference 2016

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What: 'Re-Imagining Learning Environments'. We are set a challenge to really understand our learning environments. To create and invent responses that are possibly not even...

A Happy Online Learning New Year for 2016

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I wish all the readers of this blog a wonderful New Year. May your online courses be innovative, fun and highly effective in developing...

That was the year that was: what I did in 2015

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No, I didn't die and get a Viking funeral at sea from my grandchildren, as did Billy Connelly in the wonderfully funny movie "What...

Innovation in online teaching in a Mexican university

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The University of Guadalajara I spent last week in and around Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco in Mexico. The Universidad de Guadalajara, whose origins go...