Thursday, January 16, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Blogs and wikis in formal higher education: examples of open education

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  Raths, D. (2014) An e-portfolio with no limits Campus Technology, March 2 This is an article on a project by the University of Mary Washington,...

Instructional design, the academy and industry: a ‘blended’ event

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What: The Academy and Industry: Exploring Instructional Design Roles In a professional discipline, sometimes there can be uneasy tensions between those in the Academy (i.e. professors...

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...

CAID webinar: instructional design in Spain and the Netherlands

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 What:  The Canadian Association of Instructional Designers is offering a webinar workshop that  invites you on a quick world tour to become acquainted with the practices...

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...

An ADDIE infographic for online training

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© Commonwealth of Australia, 2014 Flexible Learning Australia has developed an interactive infographic for developing online training. Click here to access the graphic. Thanks to Richard...

A comprehensive review of the literature on digital natives

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Image retrieved from Hastac.org (Stephen Berg's blog)Jones, C. and Shao, B. (2011) The Net Generation and Digital Natives: Implications for Higher Education Milton Keynes:...

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...

Producing ‘innovative’ graduates and how online learning can help

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Avvisati, F., Jacotin, G., and Vincent-Lacrin, S. (2013) Educating Higher Education Students for Innovative Economies: What International Data Tells Us, Tuning Journal for Higher...

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...