Thursday, April 3, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Another view on research for the Ontario Online Institute

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...

Another review of DIY U

Norris, D. (2010) Book review: DIY U Planning for Higher Education Planning for Higher Education, Vol. 38, No. 4 This is a comprehensive review of...

Mr Bates goes to Ottawa: or increasing access to post-secondary education

The context OK, I'm not James Stewart, and it wasn't Washington, and this posting's a little late, due to other things, but this is a...

Will elite universities offer online undergraduate degrees?

Young, J. (2010) U. of California Considers Online Classes, or Even Degrees Chronicle of Higher Education, May 9 This is a strange article that discusses...

An essay on the impact of the digital age on scholarship and institutions

Katz, R. (2010) Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Digital Age Educause Review, Vol. 45. No. 2, pp. 44-56 It is always interesting...

A report of online learning activities in the USA

The European Re.Vica project has been building country reports on online learning and virtual campuses for a growing number of countries. It has just published...

Preliminary book review: An Introduction to Distance Education

Cleveland-Innes, M. and Garrison, R. (eds.) 2010 An Introduction to Distance Education: Understanding Teaching and Learning in a New Era New York/Abingdon UK: Routledge This...

Decentralizing distance education

Kolowich, S. (2010) Texas kills its Telecampus Inside Higher Education, April 9 This is one of those blogs I probably shouldn't write, but what the...

Online learning in Ontario

I've had several people contact me to ask what is the Ontario Online Institute? It was announced by the Ontario Provincial Government in the...

Is this the way to change higher education?

Kamenetz, A. (200) Adapt or decline Inside Higher Education, March 26 This is another breathless romp through the reasons why higher education must change, and...