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What’s Next for Online Learning Webinar Series:
Envisioning the Future of Experiential Learning
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
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What’s Next for Online Learning, Contact North | Contact Nord’s signature webinar series on the future of online learning, is proud to welcome its second speaker Dana Stephenson, Co-Founder and CEO of Riipen — an experiential learning platform.
As the world went virtual in the past year, the delivery of experiential education needed to change. This opened up avenues for innovation and opportunities for radical transformation. As we slowly move back to normal, will experiential learning look the same?
In this session, Dana Stephenson takes a deep dive into the world of experiential learning. This session gives educators, practitioners, and enthusiasts an opportunity to envision its future together.
This session explores:
- Innovations in experiential learning
- Trends that are shaping the future of experiential learning
- What the future of experiential learning looks like for every learner
What’s Next for Online Learning features a select group of Canadian CEOs sharing their vision of learning in a post-pandemic world.
Our Host
Dana Stephenson
Co-Founder and CEO, Riipen
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Learn About the Seven Models for Zoom-Supported Teaching and Learning
Thursday, June 10, 2021
11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
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Tailored to instructors, instructional designers and academic administrators, this engaging webinar shares seven models for Zoom-supported teaching and learning. Host Dr. Ron Owston helps participants understand how to ensure all students are fully included and engaged in these models:
- Fully synchronous
- Blended synchronous and asynchronous
- Flex blend: Students alternate between attending face-to-face and online according to predetermined schedules
- HyFlex: Students freely choose whether to attend face-to-face or synchronously
- Traditional blend: Mainly face-to-face with an integrated online component
- Flipped: Content delivered online, students attend in small, in-person groups for guided/tutorial work
- Face-to-face with Zoom breakout discussion/work groups
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Dr. Ron Owston
Research Associate
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Read About the 10 Key Actions that Ensure Micro-Credentials Meet the Needs of Learners and Employers
Micro-credentials are a key component of many government strategies for upskilling and reskilling. They are designed to help close the skills gap and get people back to work. They also reflect a trend towards on-demand, short-form learning that is focused on skills, competencies and specific capabilities — a shift away from long-form learning, such as degrees and diplomas.
As colleges and universities start rolling out micro-credentials, Contact North | Contact Nord suggests 10 key actions to ensure micro-credentials fulfill their promise and deliver to learners and employers the skills and competency-based learning they need.
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Join the HyFlex Learning Community!
Dr. Brian Beatty, Associate Professor of Instructional Technologies at San Francisco State University has launched a new resource called the HyFlex Learning Community to support the community of practitioners exploring, designing, building and facilitating the Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) learning environments.
Find everything you need to know about the HyFlex learning environment, including forums, blogs, training workshops, FAQs, research, articles, podcasts and more!
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This Week’s Must-Read Book
on Online Learning
Serious Games in Personalized Learning – New Models for Design and Performance
By Scott M. Martin, James R. Casey & Stephanie Kane (2021)
Serious games have been with us for some time. Basic pencil and paper simulations, role play, Lego-based games, team activities like building a tower from spaghetti have all been part of the educator and trainer repertoire for years. But now, AI-enabled games and simulation are appearing, with life-like characters interacting with students and instructors to create immersive experiences, aided by augmented and virtual reality. This book, due to be released in July 2021, synthesizes contemporary research, frameworks, and models centered on the design and delivery of serious games, especially those that truly personalize the learning experience. Written by practitioners based at the Virginia Serious Games Institute, it is both grounded in research and practical. Instructional designers and technology advisors to faculty will find real value in this book.
Browse all Must-Read Books
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Searchable Directory of 95+ EdTech Start-Ups
Contact North I Contact Nord’s searchable directory of 95+ EdTech Start-Ups includes companies developing communication/collaborative tools, learning management systems, and online tutoring, student assessment, and presentation/delivery tools.
Explore the Directory
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EDUCAUSE Annual Conference
Tuesday, October 26 to Friday, October 29, 2021
Philadelphia, PA
Virtual and In-Person Options
EDUCAUSE Annual Conference brings together professionals and technology providers from around the world to share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges.
The conference’s community-generated program showcases future directions, best practices, stories of successful collaborations, lessons learned, and solutions to community-wide issues within various program tracks.
This year’s themes include the big-picture issues being tackled across higher education.
- Common Good: Including DEI, social justice, accessibility, social responsibility, community engagement, partnerships & collaborations, and environmental sustainability
- Resilience: Including recovery, continuity, sustainability, adaptability, and affordability
- Transformation: Including digital transformation, innovation, and cultural, personal, and organizational change
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