Monday, December 23, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

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:...

Teaching assistants, adjunct faculty and online learning

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I am struggling these days with the issue of who should teach online courses, in terms of qualifications and status, and in particular, the...

Contact North on How to Design an Innovative Course

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Anon (2014) How to design an innovative course, Sudbury.Thunder Bay ON: Contact North As reported in Contact North's Online Learning News: There is a lot of pressure...

Thinking about the design of the ‘flipped’ classroom

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Barnett, P. (2014) Let's scramble, not flip, the classroom, Inside Higher Education, February 14 University of Washington (undated) Flipping the classroom, Seattle: University of Washington...

How problem-based learning can help develop innovation skills

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Hoidn, S. and Kärkkäinen, K. (2014) Promoting Skills for Innovation in Higher Education A Literature Review on the Effectiveness of Problem-based Learning and of Teaching Behaviours...

A new approach to online lab classes from the University of South Carolina

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  Adams, S. and Duvall, B. (2014) Designing, building and supporting online lab courses, University Business, February 4 This article is a summary of a presentation...

2020 Vision: Outlook for online learning in 2014 and way beyond

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 Taking the long view Doug Saunders in the Globe and Mail on  January 4 wrote an interesting piece on prediction, entitled: "Gadgets alone don't make...

Look back in anger? A review of online learning in 2013

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Well, where did 2013 go? It seems like only last week I was writing the 2012 review!This year, I did better with my predictions...

“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”: a retrospective of my work

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Brindley. J. and Paul, R. (2013) Understanding the building blocks of online learning: Through the writings and research of pre-eminent online learning expert, Dr. Tony...

A blended learning toolkit from the University of Central Florida

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UCF Campus Blended Learning Toolkit The University of Central Florida has been doing blended learning for at least 15 years, long before video capture and flipped...