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Why learning management systems are not going away
Will new LMSs change the teaching and learning environment? Contact North has just published online a series of six short papers (10-12 pages) under the title of Learning Management Systems: Disruptive...
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Examples of virtual worlds, simulations and mobile apps from Ontario
Carleton Virtual This is the second in a series of guest blogs on innovative developments in online learning in Ontario post-secondary institutions. (The first was examples of hybrid learning.) In this...
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Examples from Ontario colleges of faculty development in online learning
This is the third in a series of guest blogs on innovative developments in online learning in Ontario post-secondary institutions. (The first was examples of hybrid learning and the second was examples...
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The status of online learning in Canada in 2012
Contact North (2012) Online Learning in Canada: At a Tipping Point Sudbury ON: Contact North Contact North’s report Contact North in Ontario has just published a 29 page overview of the current state...
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The new Canadian copyright law and its impact on online learning
Contact North (2012) The Perfect Storm: Canadian Copyright Law 2012 Sudbury ON: Contact North Contact North has just published a review of the implications for online learning of Canada’s brand new...
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Serving remote and rural communities: lessons from 25 years of Contact North
Contact North's modest main office in Sudbury; its other main office is in Thunder Bay - 1,000 kilometres away! Paul, R. (2012) Contact North: A Case Study in Public Policy Sudbury ON: Contact North...
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Full report on the Open University of Catalonia now available
The Tibidabo headquarters of the Open University of Catalonia Contact North (2012) The Open University of Catalonia: Fully Online Multi-lingual Innovation-focused Accredited Sudbury ON: Contact North...
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Online learning set to expand and become a core function in Ontario’s...
The flag of Ontario Contact North (2013) An Overview of the Strategic Mandate Agreement Proposals Prepared by Ontario’s Public Colleges and Universities: Online Learning Set to Expand and Become a Core...
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Further developments in competency-based learning
Salt Lake City: HQ of Western Governors’ University Fain, P. (2013) Rise of customized learning, Inside Higher Education, March 5 Contact North (2013) Western Governors’ University, The Gamechangers in...
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Can you teach lab science via remote labs?
Colorado Community College's remote lab: in the background is an air-track for physics, in the middle a spectrometer for chemistry and in the foreground a microscope for biology Contact North (2013)...
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“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”: a retrospective of my work
Still alive on Sunday Brindley. J. and Paul, R. (2013) Understanding the building blocks of online learning: Through the writings and research of pre-eminent online learning expert, Dr. Tony Bates...
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Contact North on How to Design an Innovative Course
Image © University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 2014 Anon (2014) How to design an innovative course, Sudbury.Thunder Bay ON: Contact North As reported in Contact North’s Online Learning News:...
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Contact North on Online Learning, Innovation, Flexibility and Open...
Contact North’s humble office in Sudbury, Ontario Contact North continues to produce a range of interesting short pieces on different aspects of online learning. (Disclaimer: I am a Contact North...
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Contact North’s quick update on online learning in Canada
Contact North recently published a short update on the state of online learning in Canada, which gives a good overview of the following: key Canadian developments and players in online learning and...
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Reading between the lines: the ‘intangibles’ in quality online teaching and...
Teaching needs empathy, intuition and imagination, as well as technical competence. Contact North has organised a series of four webinars highlighting the practical advice and guidelines offered in my...
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Contact North to host the next ICDE conference in Toronto in 2017
Toronto from near Union Station. The International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) announced at the close of this year’s conference in Sun City, South Africa, that its next conference will be...
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Recorded webinar on use of media in higher education
The SECTIONS model for choosing media The second of four webinars on my open, online textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age, was ‘broadcast’ last Tuesday (3 November 2015) by Contact North. In this...
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Recording of webinar on choosing modes of delivery
What makes face-to-face teaching pedagogically unique – if anything? This morning I gave my third webinar in the Contact North series based on my online, open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age. There...
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Webinar recording: How open education will revolutionize higher education
Last Tuesday I did a Contact North webinar on the above topic. This was the last of five webinars based on my book, Teaching in a Digital Age. In this webinar, I briefly touched on the following...
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More details on ICDE’s World Conference on Online Learning
Contact North | Contact Nord, the organizer and host of the 27th International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) World Conference, launches the official portal for the World Conference on...
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