Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Getting into the online learning industry

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Lynch, M. (2022) Do You Have the Skills to Succeed in the Online Learning Industry? The Tech Edvocate, April 11 Three years ago, I wrote a blog post...

Discussing the strengths and weaknesses of synchronous or asynchronous teaching

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The context I am continuing the process of updating the third version of my open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age, to take account of...

The role of open universities post-Covid

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OGoH1q4Kms Anadolu University Anadolu University in Turkey is nominated by the Turkish Higher Degree Act of 1981 as the national provider of distance education.  Enrollment in...

Defining quality and online learning

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The issue Institutions are struggling to define online or digital learning for their students. In particular, students need to know whether a course requires attendance...

Book review: Teaching in the Post Covid-19 Era

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Fayed, I. and Cummings, J. (2021) Teaching in the Post Covid 19 Era Springer: Cham, Switzerland, 764 pp This is a longish post - you...

Has online learning gone backwards because of the pandemic?

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Back to the classroom model I was recently struck by a comment my former colleague Diana Laurillard made in a podcast for Mark Nichols' excellent...

Investigating Indigenous learners’ experience of online learning

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Davey, R.C.E. (2019) "It will never be my first choice to do an online course": Examining Experiences of Indigenous Learners Online in Canadian Post-Secondary...

More on lecture-based online learning for Teaching in a Digital Age

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Wow, thanks to several readers for some great and speedy feedback on Discussing classroom-type online learning, a revision for the third edition of Teaching...

Discussing classroom-type online learning

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I am slowly working on the third edition of Teaching in a Digital Age. I have added a section to the first chapter on...

Groundhog day in online learning? What’s different this time

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The pandemic grinds on I've entered 2022 with a sense of déjà vu. After nearly two years of Covid, it's like going back to the...