Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

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,...

The status of online learning in Canada in 2012

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Contact North (2012) Online Learning in Canada: At a Tipping Point Sudbury ON: Contact North Contact North's report Contact North in Ontario has just published a...

Catholic Church establishes new e-learning centre for child protection

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AFP (2010) Catholic Church launches global centre against child abuse, February 9 The Catholic Church launched an international Internet centre against paedophilia on Thursday at the...