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Contact North | Contact Nord’s Pockets of Innovation Showcase Webinar Series features new and innovative online teaching practices from Ontario’s public colleges and universities. These practices are featured in Contact North | Contact Nord’s Pockets of Innovation Series, which includes more than 220 examples since 2011.
Join faculty and instructors from colleges and universities across Ontario as they share best practices, tools and strategies for teaching online during a one-hour interactive Zoom webinar. Each webinar includes a presentation followed by a moderated question and answer session.
Join us for the first three webinars!
- Using Lightboards to Successfully Teach Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Subjects Online at McMaster University
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (ET)
Host: Michael Justason, Program Chair, Civil Engineering Infrastructure Technology and Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University
- Developing a Class Response System to Promote Active Learning During Online Courses at Seneca College
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (ET)
Hosts: Dr. Ken Wong, Professor, School of Marketing, Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology, and Margaret Osborne, Professor, School of Marketing, Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology
- Motivating First-Year Computer Science Students Using Gamification at Laurentian University
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (ET)
Host: Dr. Aaron Langille, Master Lecturer, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Engineering and Architecture, Laurentian University
View Contact North | Contact Nord’s full list of Upcoming Pockets of Innovation Showcase Webinars
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Host: Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD
Andreas Schleicher initiated and oversees the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and other international instruments that have created a global platform for policy-makers, researchers and educators across nations and cultures to innovate and transform educational policies and practices.
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A Special Briefing on OECD’s 2020 Education at a Glance
Crucial Data for a Post-Covid-19 World
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (ET)
Join Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at OECD for a 1-hour session as he shares his insights on the recent Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report Education at a Glance 2020.
Find out who participates in education, what is spent on it, how education systems operate and the results achieved.
Get a special briefing on education statistics that play a pivotal role in informing decisions, important indicators that not only shape education, but are critical to monitor during and after the COVID-19 crisis.
Register for A Special Briefing on OECD’s 2020 Education at a Glance: Crucial Data for a Post-Covid-19 World
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Register Today for the Virtual Edition of
The Learning & Training Conference 2020
Tuesday, December 8 – Wednesday, December 9, 2020
The 2020s is a decade of learning innovations enabled by technologies.
Over two days in December, join us virtually to focus on the skills needed by individuals, corporations, organizations and communities for tomorrow’s workplace, the ways technology can enable the development of these skills, and how learning is being organized and delivered through new approaches, partnerships and credentials.
- Explore the emerging pedagogy that embraces emerging technology and highly skilled faculty, instructors, and teachers to achieve new levels of student engagement and outcomes.
- Learn from examples of innovative organizations – schools, colleges, universities, corporations, social enterprises – that are imagining and delivering new approaches to learning.
- Look at new approaches to skills recognition and support for learners and the ways in which learning on demand is being imagined and delivered.
- Explore new and emerging technologies to support the delivery of quality learning experiences.
The Learning & Training Conference 2020, formerly the ONLINE LEARNING conference series, is hosted by Contact North | Contact Nord.
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Read 10 Lessons from a Post-Pandemic World – Teaching & Learning in the Digital Age
The COVID-19 pandemic forced nearly all colleges and universities to move their classes to emergency online learning in March 2020.
Canada’s post-secondary system responded amazingly well to the challenge of adapting its programs and courses for online delivery and providing support services to its students during the pandemic. While the system proved its resilience, there are lessons we can collectively learn and unlearn from the pandemic experience as the planning starts for 2021-2022 and beyond.
Building on his observations and direct experience during the pandemic and his 40 years in the distance and online world, Contact North | Contact Nord Research Associate Dr. Tony Bates gives us 10 Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World to improve both the quality of the learning experience and outcomes for students in the future.
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How to Create Active and Engaging Learning Experiences with Zoom Breakout Rooms
Friday, November 20, 2020 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (ET)
Zoom’s breakout rooms provide a unique opportunity to learn to create active and engaging learning experiences for students.
Join Contact North | Contact Nord’s Research Associate, Dr. Ron Owston, who describes how educators can:
- Move beyond holding ineffective, unstructured breakout room discussions
- Create distinctive breakout room roles for students to promote active participation
- Employ a variety of tools and techniques to enhance breakout room experiences
- Pre-assign students to breakout rooms or allow them to chose their own
- Design creative ways for students to report breakout room outcomes to the whole class
- Make use of breakout rooms in large enrolment courses
Participants have ample opportunity to ask questions during the webinar.
NOTE: Registrants are expected to have a basic knowledge of how to use Zoom.
Register Now!
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Read Dr. Tony Bates’ Blog Post
In this blog post, Dr. Bates reviews the six types of blended learning models and the differences between them.
Read Contact North I Contact Nord Research Associate Dr. Tony Bates’ blog post:
Defining blended learning: Farmer’s theory-based models
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Directory of Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences From Around the World
Search the 43rd edition of the Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences by Contact North I Contact Nord Research Associate, Clayton R. Wright, updated to include May to December 2020 conferences.
Use three unique search features of the comprehensive directory offered by Contact North I Contact Nord:
- Sort the directory by date, conference name or country
- Filter the results by date or country
- Search for a conference name, country or topic using a keyword search
Search the Directory
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Documenting Triage: Detailing the Response of Provinces and Territories to Emergency Remote Teaching
CANeLearn is researching what K-12 school districts across Canada offered in the way of programming and supports during the pandemic.
Read the first report
Join CANeLearn for a series of webinars offering insights into each report:
- Friday, November 13, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. (ET) (10 a.m. PT)
- Friday, December 4, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. (ET) (10 a.m. PT)
Register for the webinars
e-Mail info@CANeLearn.net for more information.
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Must-Read Books on Online Learning
Must-Read Books on Online Learning features books and articles of interest to those involved in the expansion and improvement of online learning.
Molenda, M.H. & Subramony, D.P. (2020). The Elements of Instruction: A Framework for the Age of Emerging Technologies. New York: Routledge.
How do we optimize technology and people for effective instruction and learning? What are the models and frameworks that should inform our design thinking? How should we assess the opportunity to create a design for learning that will meet the needs of both our discipline and the learners? These are the questions that inform this book. The book proposes a new framework for teaching and learning based on theory, research and practice. Seasoned instructors who have been working online and those new to this work will benefit from the way in which this book is written and presented – lots of ideas presented in a focused way.
Browse all Must-Read Books
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