Online Learning News - March 3, 2021

Read Five Reasons Technology
is Not Going to Transform Higher Education

1. Misunderstanding the purpose of learning
2. Personalization, isolation and depersonalization
3. Teaching is what colleges and universities are all about
4. Costs, quality and the experience of learning
5. Technology offers a fix for the wrong problem

To find out more and the six key ways in which technology will enhance teaching and learning in higher education read:

Enough of the Transformation Mantra!
Why Technology is Not Going to Transform Higher Education.

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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.
• to the assessment of learning that help students succeed.

Developing Open Educational Resources in French and English for Students of Organic Chemistry at the University of Ottawa, Canada

Dr. Alison Flynn at the University of Ottawa collaborated with the Centre for Innovative Pedagogies and Digital Learning of the Teaching and Learning Support Service to create open and online tools in both English and French. Students use the tools to learn at their own pace, receive accurate feedback in real-time and improve their metacognitive skills. They can also identify and address their strengths and weaknesses in understanding organic.

Directory of Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences From Around the World

Search the 44^th edition of the Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences by Contact North I Contact Nord Research Associate, Clayton R. Wright, updated to include 2021 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

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Read Dr. Tony Bates’ Blog Post

In this blog post, Dr. Bates discusses the results of a study on U.S. children “learning online” during COVID-19 without the Internet or a computer.

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

Stunning research on inequities of access to online learning in the USA 

Another Must-Read Book
on Online Learning

Digital-Age Innovation in Higher Education – A Do-It-Yourself Approach

By Gary Natriello (2021)

This intriguing (and expensive) book offers an insider’s look at the growth of an innovation unit within a major university - the EdLab at the Gottesman Libraries of Teachers College, Columbia University. Its mandate was to leverage emerging technologies to improve teaching and learning in a university environment not known for innovation and change (it is a teachers’ college). With interesting language (who can resist a chapter with a title like “Wind Resistance – Why is it So Hard to Change Higher Education?”) and nuanced accounts of what seeking to enable change was (and is) like, this book is a good read. Given the price (US$160), persuade your librarian to purchase it.

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