Saturday, December 21, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

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...

Discussing design models for hybrid/blended learning and the impact on the campus

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 A couple of weeks ago I had an interesting meeting with about 25 instructional designers from UBC, where we discussed design models for hybrid...

No. 6 aha moment: the convergence of online learning (from the periphery to the...

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This is the seventh in a series of posts about the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational technology, where I...

Throttling access to online learning

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Lennett, B. and Kehl, D. (2103) Capping the Nation's Broadband Future Washington DC: New America Foundation Lennett, B. and Kehl, D. (2013) Data Caps Could...

No. 3 aha moment: asynchronous is (generally) better than synchronous teaching

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In an earlier post, I listed the seven ‘aha’ moments that have been the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational...

Grants for research on blended learning – from a lecture capture company

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Nagel, D. (2013) Grants support research into blended, distance learning Campus Technology, January 7 Echo360, a vendor of a range of educational technology, including lecture...

Outlook for online learning in 2013: online learning comes of age

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FunTab Class 9.1 Android ICS Tablet: will 2013 be the year of the tablet? In a previous post, I talked about the difficulties in making...

The role of information sciences in online learning: a review of IRRODL, Vol. 13,...

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An overview of the papers IRRODL (the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning) has once again produced a fascinating themed edition, this...

An archive of alI I know about online learning

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At the recent COHERE conference I delivered two keynotes: Meeting the challenge of technology: are we failing as managers? Designing university teaching to meet the needs...

My summer paranoia: computers will replace teachers in higher education

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I had a strange dream last night. I was in discussion with an editor from a publishing company about the draft of a new...