Online Learning News - February 24, 2021

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A bi-weekly update from Contact North ǀ Contact Nord, Ontario’s Distance Education & Training Network

Now on teachonline.ca:

Hot Off the MIT Press!
Teaching Machines – The History of Personalized Learning

By Audrey Watters
“Education writer, independent scholar, serial dropout,
rabble-rouser, and ed-tech's Cassandra”

In this must read-book, Audrey Watters challenges the “transformation” narrative
that often accompanies an emerging educational technology and, in doing so, challenges the “learnification” industry as a whole.

She debunks what she calls “the teleology of ed tech”, the idea that not only is computerized education inevitable, technological progress is the sole driver of events.

Full of excellent examples and case vignettes, including stories of failed adventures (including some from repeat offenders), Teaching Machines – The History of Personalized Learning offers a compelling narrative of caution and respect for the bigger purposes of education.

“Teaching Machines is a vital cultural history of our desire for a technical solution to the fundamentally social problem of how to make education work for all families. Watters has written the rare book that is necessary, important, and readable.” Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Learn How to Improve How We Teach and Learn Online

Monday, March 1, 2021
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (ET)

Register Now!

Colleges and universities are rapidly responding to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by leveraging the power of the Internet for both real-time sessions and online learning anytime. Some colleges and universities are doing exceptional work. Some are struggling, others are challenged, but are “making it”.

In this interactive webinar, our host Stephen Downes, Contact North I Contact Nord Research Associate, presents:

10 lessons from teaching and learning in a pandemic
Three challenges of leveraging these lessons for “what’s next” in online and blended learning
Three specific ways we can facilitate improvements in teaching and learning, based on these 10 lessons

Digital Storytelling Engages Students in Rural Nursing Course

A Trent University Innovation

Learn how Professor Kim English uses digital storytelling as a key activity in her Rural Nursing Practice course, where students create digital stories to document personal experiences, communicate ideas, raise awareness and inform others.

How to Design Online Teaching for Engaged Learning: Merging Instructional Design
and Teaching and Learning Research

Thursday, March 4, 2021
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (ET)

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How do we marry the substantial research on effective teaching and learning with our knowledge and experience of instructional design to ensure effective learning and increase student retention and course completion?

What pedagogical techniques are needed to make online learning engaging and empowering for students?

In this interactive webinar, Dr. Linda Nilson, author of Online Teaching at Its Best – Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research, shares:

Specific approaches to course design you can take to increased retention and completion.
Practical insights on how to improve your online teaching, based on cognitive science and instructional design.
Approaches to the assessment of learning that help students succeed.

Explore the Largest Searchable Directory of Vendors of Online Learning Products and Services Worldwide!

With over 3,200 vendors of online learning products and services worldwide, this searchable directory provides colleges, universities, training providers, faculty and instructors with information on how to find the latest products and services to help improve the learning experience for their students.

These vendors offer products and services ranging from software to hosting and organizing learning content to adaptive learning systems that use intelligent algorithms to adjust learning to suit individual needs.

Search the Contact North I Contact Nord Searchable Directory

Read Dr. Tony Bates’ Blog Post

In this blog post, Dr. Bates analyzes the results of two important surveys (The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations and Higher Education Strategy Associates) on the Canadian university student response to the measures put in place by universities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read Contact North I Contact Nord Research Associate Dr. Tony Bates’ blog post:

Tilting at windmills: two research studies on students’ views on Canadian universities’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic

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