Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

When online learning fails

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Figlio, D., Rush, N. and Yin, L. (2010) Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on...

Distance Education and Mobile Learning

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The Australian-based Distance Education journal has just brought out a special edition on distance education and mobile learning. The articles between them provide a good...

New book on Web 2.0 and Social Informatics for Tertiary Learning

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Lee, M. and McCoughlin, C. (2010) Web 2.0 Based e-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Learning Hershey PA: IGI Global, 415 pp, US$180 hardback Description...

Designing research for the Ontario Online Institute

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HECQO and the Ontario Online Institute I spent a very interesting day on July 7 at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), discussing...

e-portfolios and ‘legacy’ assessment

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Batson, T. (2010) The testing straightjacket Campus Technology, July 7 Fusch, D. (2010) Integrating e-portfolios in your assessment strategy Academic Impressions, July 16 Chen, H. and...

Another view on research for the Ontario Online Institute

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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...

What does ‘open’ really mean?

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Hilton III, J. et al. (2010) Using online technologies to extend a classroom to learners at a distance, Distance Education, Vol. 31, No....

More on epistemology, course design and e-learning

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I was recently asked three excellent questions by Elizabeth O'Neill, of EducationDynamics. How does e-learning lend itself to specific epistemologies or pedagogies (e.g. social constructivism...

Evolution or revolution?

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Another report from the B.C. Educational Technology Users Workshop in Victoria, June 5-6. My keynote on strategic thinking about e-learning argued strongly for a 'revolutionary'...

The future of instructional design – or my heart belongs to ADDIE

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On Sunday, I attended a very interesting meeting of about 50 instructional designers (what is a good collective noun for instructional designers?) from across...