Thursday, January 2, 2025
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

What’s right and what’s wrong about Coursera-style MOOCs

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  TED Talks: Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education Daphne Koller, one of the two founders of Coursera, describes some of the key features...

Nine steps to quality online learning: Step 8: Communicate, communicate, communicate

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© Care2, 2012In this post I stress the importance of ongoing, continuing communication between instructor and students in an online environment, and in particular...

Nine steps to quality online learning: Step 6: Set appropriate learning goals

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In this post I argue that you need to think about what kinds of goals could best be achieved in an online course, rather...

Why learning management systems are not going away

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Contact North has just published online a series of six short papers (10-12 pages) under the title of Learning Management Systems: Disruptive Developments, Alternative Options...

Book review: Learning Theory and Online Technologies

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Harasim, L. (2012) Learning Theory and Online Technologies New York/London: Routledge Linda Harasim is one of the pioneers of online learning and this book brings...

From dream to reality: why implementation is as important as goal setting in e-learning

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Two recent developments have brought home clearly the need to consider and discuss implementation strategies at the same time as setting educational goals. The...

Book review: The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

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Davidson, C and Goldberg, D. (2010) The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age Chicago: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur...

Journal: Distance Education, Vol. 32, No. 1 now available

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Is online distance education about to collapse like the Tower of Babel? So asks Jon Baggaley Distance Education, Vol. 32, No. 1, May 2011 The academic...

IRRODL on Connectivism

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IRRODL (the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning) has just published a very special issue focused on connectivism. Connectivism claims to be...

Some basic assumptions about e-learning challenged

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Guri-Rosenblit, S. and Gros, B. (2011) E-Learning: Confusing Terminology, Research Gaps and Inherent Challenges Journal of Distance Education, Vol. 25, No.1 Following its admirable policy...