Online Learning News - July 25, 2018 | Welcome to TeachOnline

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

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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.

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Selected Pockets of Innovation Now Available in French and Spanish

The 24 Selected Pockets of Innovation available in French and Spanish are organized in 8 key topics, with one topic offering examples of MOOCs and OERs. The English-language version of the Pockets of Innovation featured under this heading can be read at Universities in France, the University of Iceland, Iceland, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

For access to All Selected Pockets of Innovation in French, click here.

For access to All Selected Pockets of Innovation in Spanish, click here.

Multicultural Collaborative Online Learning and Teaching Designed and Implemented by the Center for Technology, Education and Cultural Diversity in Israel

One of the objectives at the Center for Technology, Education and Cultural Diversity(TEC Center) at the MOFET Institute in Israel is the development of innovative educational models that bridge cultures using advanced technology. Online courses using the TEC Model bring together students from Jewish religious, Jewish secular and Arab Muslim teacher education colleges, with a pedagogical model designed to use educational discussion and cooperation to build mutual trust and respect.

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Five Key Ways to Use Predictive Analytics

Colleges and universities are showing a significant interest in data analytics – the use of their available, complex and comprehensive data systems to improve recruitment, retention, completion, and student engagement.

As analytic systems are getting increasingly sophisticated, administrators, faculty and instructors want to expand the ways in which they can use analytic systems to support their work.

Read About the Predictive Power of Analytics

Must-Read Books on Online Learning
features books and articles that may be of interest to all those involved in the expansion and improvement of online learning.

For Faculty & Instructors

eLearning Ecologies - Principles of New Learning and Assessment

For Instructional Designers

Make it Stick - The Science of Successful Learning

For Policy Makers and Administrators

Beyond MacDonaldization - Visions of Higher Education

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Provincial Land Acknowledgement

Contact North | Contact Nord respectfully acknowledges that our work, and the work of our community partners, takes place on traditional Indigenous territories across the province.

We are grateful to be able to work and live in these territories. We are thankful to the First Nations, Métis and Inuit people who have cared for these territories since time immemorial and who continue to strengthen Ontario and all communities across the province.

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