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Call for papers on research into blended and online learning
The Canadian Journal of Higher Education is a publication of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education. It has issued a call for papers for a special issue on: ‘Blended and online...
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An archive of alI I know about online learning
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 of 21st century students. The...
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Online learning in 2012: a retrospective
© The Greening of Gavin, 2012 Well, 2012 was certainly the year of the MOOC. Audrey Watters provides a comprehensive overview of what happened with MOOCs in 2012, so I won’t repeat what she has done....
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Distance Education journal: November 2012 edition
Volume 33, No. 3 of Distance Education does not have a particular theme. But all the articles in one way or another discuss critical factors for student success in online or distance learning: the...
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Call for papers on blended and online learning: Canadian Journal of Higher...
A chance to move your research from the ghetto of online learning specialists into a wider audience. This journal is planning a special issue on blended and online higher education: teaching and...
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The University of Western Sydney goes for blended learning – big time!
University of Western Sydney, School of Medicine Griffith, C. (2012) University to roll out 11,000 Apple iPads, The Australian, December 20 All new students enrolling in first year courses in the...
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Outlook for online learning in 2013: online learning comes of age
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 predictions in online learning. Bearing in mind the hazardous...
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Grants for research on blended learning – from a lecture capture company
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 capture technology, has...
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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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Exploiting the affordances of the iPad at Lynn University
Students at Lynn University Tilsley, A. (2013) iPadU Inside Higher Education, January 15 This is a report about Lynn University, a private nonprofit university based in Boca Raton, Florida, moving its...
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Rethinking online learning in a hybrid world
Wolfe, J. (2103) Concordia should re-boot its e-learning strategy The Link, March 5 I am seeing increasingly sophisticated discussions now on campus about the role not just of online learning, but the...
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No. 6 aha moment: the convergence of online learning (from the periphery to...
Joseph Kim's blended learning class at McMaster University This is the seventh in a series of posts about the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational technology, where I...
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UBC is going big with online and flexible learning
UBC's Vancouver campus Yesterday (March 11), Stephen Toope, the president of the University of British Columbia, sent an e-mail to all faculty announcing a strategy to increase flexible learning across...
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Queen’s University’s report on online learning
Senate Academic Planning Task Force (2013) Draft Report March 2013 Kingston ON: Queens University Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, was one of the first universities worldwide to offer distance...
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Discussing design models for hybrid/blended learning and the impact on the...
A couple of weeks ago I had an interesting meeting with about 25 instructional designers from UBC, where we discussed design models for hybrid learning, defined as a deliberate attempt to combine the...
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A report on e-learning from the University of Ottawa
At the beginning of May I was in Ottawa, first to present to the University of Ottawa’s Board of Governors about the current state of online learning in Canada, in support of their excellent plan for...
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MOOCs, MIT and Magic
MOOC panel: Dan Hastings, Anant Agarwal, Tony Bates, Sanjay Sarma, John Daniel In my previous post, there were two sessions at the LINC 2013 conference that referred specifically to MIT’s own...
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A review of the HEQCO report on productivity and quality in online learning...
The view from HEQCO, Toronto Carey, T., & Trick, D. (2013). How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the Literature....
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How online learning is going to affect classroom design
Steelcase Node Classroom Design (© Steelcase, 2013) I have an unusual occupation. A couple of weeks ago I attended a meeting in an office furniture warehouse in a small industrial park in Vancouver....
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A blended learning toolkit from the University of Central Florida
UCF Campus Blended Learning Toolkit The University of Central Florida has been doing blended learning for at least 15 years, long before video capture and flipped classrooms came on the scene. Based in...
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