Monday, December 23, 2024
Online Learning and Distance Education Resources — Moderated by Tony Bates, Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

Is this the future of online learning?

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Rosen, K. (2020) 2020: Lost Year of Schooling or Year One in a New Era of Education? Attention FWD, November 12 I found this an...

Free online modules for k-12 teachers on how to teach online

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Following on from my post yesterday about the lack of training for k-12 teachers in how to teach online during the pandemic, I am...

Post-Pandemic Lesson 10: We need more (and better) data

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This is the last of 10 Lessons from a Post-Pandemic World. For the other nine, click here. “Research studies were of necessity quick and dirty,...

Post-Pandemic Lesson 1: Online and blended learning will increase substantially post-COVID-19

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This is the first of 10 Lessons from a Post-Pandemic World. For the other nine, click here. “…in blended learning, student performance improves over both...

Post-Pandemic Lesson 5. COVID-19 resulted in innovative teaching, but will it stick?

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This is the fifth of 10 Lessons from a Post-Pandemic World. For the other nine, click here. “…we need to take a more holistic approach,...

Post-Pandemic Lesson 4. COVID-19 showed the need for more flexible assessment methods.

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This is the fourth of 10 Lessons from a Post-Pandemic World. For the other nine, click here. “...a reassessment of assessment itself is long overdue...

10 Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World from Covid-19 for Canadian universities and colleges

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2020: Resilience and adaptability “Canada responded amazingly well to the challenge of adapting to an existential threat to its post-secondary education system. The system...

Why school boards need to listen to online learning professionals

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Guzman, Y. (2020) Students miss out and teachers feel overwhelmed as school boards blend in-person and virtual classes The Globe and Mail, November 1 As...

The importance of ‘intangibles’ in teaching and learning

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I'm going to raise a fundamental epistemological issue here about how we know things to be true. This starts off fairly abstractly but like...

Why, ‘logically’, online learning is superior to face-to-face teaching

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The issue I came to this conclusion in the middle of the night by worrying at the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous learning. (Yeah, I...