Online Learning News - March 23, 2022

Free Contact North | Contact Nord Webinar

How to Be Resilient in a Post-Pandemic World:
10 Steps Toward Personal Mastery
and Transformational Change

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)

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Many of us have experienced challenge, change and uncertainty as the pandemic impacted every aspect of society.

Whether in our personal lives, our work lives or in our role as leaders, faculty members, instructors and teachers, we are challenged to show adaptability, courage and resilience. We had to change how we work, where we work and what we work on. It is a different time, requiring totally different behaviours.

Hosted by Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd, Contact North | Contact Nord’s Chief Innovation Officer, you learn:

• 10 steps to building your personal resilience
• A framework for agile and resilient organizations
• An understanding of resilient and agile management and leadership
• How to “future ready” yourself and your organization

12 Golden Principles for Effectively Using Learning Technologies

By Contact North | Contact Nord Research Associate

Dr. Tony Bates

Building on his research and direct experience over his 50 years in the distance and online world, Contact North | Contact Nord Research Associate Dr. Tony Bates gives us 12 Golden Principles for Effectively Using Learning Technologies.

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Dr. Tony Bates’ Blog:
Online Learning and Distance Education

In this blog post, Dr. Bates reviews the newly released book, Teaching in the Post COVID-19 Era: World Education Dilemmas, Teaching Innovations and Solutions in the Age of Crisis, edited by Ismail Fayed and Jill Cummings, from Yorkville University, New Brunswick.

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

Book review: Teaching in the Post Covid-19 Era

Leaders & Legends of Online Learning

Dr. Mark Nichols’ Podcast

Leaders & Legends of Online Learning is a podcast that brings first-person perspectives from online learning experts that inform and inspire. Each interview lasts about 30 minutes, and links to each guest's work and profile.

In this episode, Dr. Mark Nichols interviews Dr. Dianne Conrad, retired professor, but active scholar, educator, and researcher.

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

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This Week’s Must-Read Book 
on Online Learning

The Diffusion and Social Implications of MOOCs: A Comparative Study of the USA and Europe

By Valentina Goglio (2022)

MOOCs have taken off big time since the beginning of the pandemic. Written off by some before COVID, over 220 million learners are now pursuing courses, micro-credentials or degrees created by close to 1,000 universities. Now that both Udemy and Coursera are publicly traded companies, they can quickly access capital in a way that they could not before. This book is a critical reflection analysis of the current and potential impact of MOOCs on both the labour market and higher education in the US and Europe. The book is the result of several years of research, which began in 2017. Developments in Europe look, at least to Goglio, different from those in the US and Canada, where change seems to take longer and connections to the labour market appear weaker. The book is well-written and worth an exploration.

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Contact North | Contact Nord’s 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.

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Upcoming Events in Online Learning

ASU+GSV Summit: Ed on the Edge

April 4 to April 6, 2022

San Diego, California

Virtual and In-Person Options

Arizona State University (ASU) and Global Silicon Valley (GSV) Summit connects leading minds around education and skills to ensure a new era in which all people have equal access to the future.

Topic includes:

• Early Childhood
• K-12
• Higher Education
• Workforce/Adult Consumer
• Digital Education Master Classes
• Emerging Tech
• Equality

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About Contact North | Contact Nord

As Ontario's community-based bilingual distance education and training network, Contact North | Contact Nord helps underserved residents in 1,300 small, rural, remote, Indigenous and Francophone communities access education and training without leaving their communities.

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