Friday, April 4, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

An archive of alI I know about online learning

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At the recent COHERE conference I delivered two keynotes: Meeting the challenge of technology: are we failing as managers? Designing university teaching to meet the needs...

COHERE conference on blended learning

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I was privileged to be the key speaker at a conference organized by Canada's Collaboration for Online Higher Education and Research (COHERE) and the...

Are public universities and colleges the ‘sleeping giants’ of online learning?

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  Ross, C. (2012) Are the Sleeping Giants Awake?  Non-Profit Universities Enter Online Education at Scale Boston: The Parthenon Group Interesting report comparing growth of online enrollments...

Book proposes a regional organization for distance education in Eastern Europe/West Asia

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Demiray, U. (2012) Leadership role for Turkey for ICDEEEWA Midas eBooks This free e-book (in English), by Urgur Demiray of the Turkish Anadolu University, looks...

Call for papers for conference on blended learning

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What: Blended Learning: A Strategy for Transforming Teaching and Learning Who: COHERE is a collaboration of universities focusing on the research and practice of blended and online...

Una mirada personal sobre el uso de tecnologías digitales en la formación de docentes...

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Ileana Farré, a quien solicité una mirada personal sobre el uso de tecnologías digitales en la formación de docentes, es profesora en el Instituto...

A personal view of the use of learning technologies in teacher education in Argentina

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Ileana Farré is a professor at a Teacher Training Institute (Instituto Superior de Formación Docente 803) in Puerto Madryn, Patagonia, Argentina. I have asked...

Spanish version of ‘Managing Technology in Higher Education’ now available

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 Bates, A. and Sangra, A. (2012) La gestión de la tecnología en la educación superior Barcelona ESP: Octaedro:ICE-UB The Spanish version of 'Managing Technology in...

“What should we do about MOOCs?” – the Board of Governors discusses

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By accident, a microphone was left switched on at a medium sized state university's Board of Governors meeting last week. In the best tradition...

Is online learning really cracking open the public post-secondary system?

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I suspect that I'm not the only one who has been 'disengaged' from the online world of online learning for the past few weeks,...