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Free Contact North | Contact Nord Webinar
How to Enhance, Extend and Even Transform Your Teaching with Hyper-Engaging Strategies
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Time)
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Are you interested in active, engaging learning? What about hyper-engaging learning? Do you want to know how to foster critical and creative thinking as well as collaboration and technology integration? Do you focus too much on the risks and not enough on the opportunities? Do you want to be inspired by other innovative educators and rich examples?
Professor Curtis J. Bonk (Indiana University) and Assistant Professor Meina Zhu (Wayne State University) share how teachers from around the world are motivating and engaging their learners — and in the process, transforming education as we know it.
In this webinar, you’ll explore:
- Hyper-engaging strategies to foster critical and creative thinking and collaborative learning in fully online, blended and face-to-face environments
- Innovative ideas for technology integration in an increasingly digital world
- Dozens of activities that are low risk, low cost and low time
- Ways in which award-winning educators around the planet are implementing ideas from this webinar, and the challenges they have overcome
- Education 20/20 as a framework to help integrate ideas from this session, which can ultimately lead to transformative teaching
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Free Contact North | Contact Nord Webinar
How to Improve Assessment and Feedback Practice
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
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In this webinar, Sarah Knight, Head of learning and teaching transformation, higher education at Jisc, explores the seven principles of good assessment and feedback. Based on a sound body of evidence of good pedagogic practice from across the UK and internationally, these principles can be applied to all aspects of learning design and teaching in all sectors of education. They offer an actionable way to improve learning, teaching and assessment, underpinned by the effective application of technology.
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Micro-Credentials
Three Things to Stop, Improve and Start!
Need to make sense of micro-credentials? Check out the fourth instalment of Stop, Improve, Start, a new series on what faculty, instructors and education and training providers need to stop doing, improve on and start doing to make micro-credentials fulfill their potential.
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Dr. Tony Bates’ Blog:
Online Learning and Distance Education
In this blog post, Dr. Bates addresses the need for consistent definitions for the various delivery methods, and the need for quality assurance to be applied to all modes of teaching.
Read Contact North I Contact Nord Research Associate Dr. Tony Bates’ blog post:
Defining quality and online learning
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Beyond the Basics:
Helping You Teach More Effectively with Zoom’s Advanced Tools
You have mastered the basic features of teaching on Zoom, so now what?
Beyond the Basics is live training geared specifically to educators and trainers like you. Led by Contact North | Contact Nord’s e-Learning Training Facilitator, our FREE session will help you boost engagement and accessibility for all types of learners:
- Enable live transcriptions for added accessibility
- Use PowerPoint as a virtual background, as a more immersive way to present
- Use focus mode to help learners avoid distractions by only seeing the host’s webcam
- Use immersive view for creative discussions
- Set up and use exit surveys for all types of feedback
- Set up advanced polling and quizzes for instant engagement
Register now for a one-hour live FREE training session!
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This Week’s Must-Read Book
on Online Learning
Modular Online Learning Design: A Flexible
Approach Diverse Learning Needs
By Amanda Nichols Hess (2020)
Using an equity lens for modular design, Amanda Hess has crafted a helpful, practical and resource full book to guide instructors and instructional designers who need to create modular learning resources quickly. It includes materials on leveraging OER, ensuring accessibility and inclusion and resources related to scaling up and down. Immensely practical, it is very easy to read and useful book.
Browse all Must-Read Books
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Search Contact North | Contact Nord’s Directory of Teaching and Learning Centres in Ontario and across Canada
Access the resources of over 80 teaching and learning centres at colleges and universities in Ontario and across Canada that support faculty and instructors by offering resources, tools, coaching, and training to enhance teaching and learning strategies, assessment practices, and student interaction.
Search the Directory of Teaching and Learning Centres
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Upcoming Events in Online Learning
EDEN 2022 Annual Conference
Tallinn University
In-Person and Virtual Options
June 20-22, 2022
“Shaping the digital transformation of the education ecosystem in Europe”
This yearʼs conference is intended as a continuation of the efforts of EDEN to support educators by providing a space to explore the issues and insights that have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
For More Information and to Register
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About Contact North | Contact Nord
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