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A Contact North | Contact Nord Free Webinar
EdTech for Teachers by Teachers
Thursday, September 30, 2021
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
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Contact North | Contact Nord’s What’s Next in Online Learning webinar series features a select group of Canadian CEOs sharing their vision of learning in a post-pandemic world.
Fred Dixon, founder and CEO of the Ottawa-based Blindside Networks and lead for the team that developed BigBlueButton, hosts this webinar. He’ll explain what he learned from the pivot to remote teaching during the pandemic, what he thought worked and didn’t work and what he expects the EdTech industry to work on for the future.
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A Contact North | Contact Nord Free Webinar
How to Effectively Use Assessment in Online
and Blended Learning to Help Your Students Succeed
Thursday, October 7, 2021
1:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
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There are new opportunities to rethink and reimagine how assessment for learning and assessments of learning takes place in an online and blended learning environment.
Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd, Chief Innovation Officer at Contact North | Contact Nord explores five principles for assessment:
- Authentic Assessment
- Accessible Assessment
- Automated Assessment
- Continuous Assessment
- Secure Assessment
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It’s Time We All Use Common Definitions
for Key Concepts in Online Learning
What do the terms “blended” and “online” mean? And where does “hybrid” learning fit into the emerging lexicon?
There are no common definitions across Canada’s post-secondary system, which makes it difficult for learners to understand their choices, and for policy-makers to compare developments in different jurisdictions.
The Canadian Digital Learning Research Association (CDLRA) has developed a definitional framework that it hopes will become a national language for policy-makers, institutions and students.
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This Week’s Must-Read Book
on Online Learning
Assessing Students’ Written Work:
Marking Essays and Reports – 2nd Edition
By Catherine Haines (2021)
An instructor’s assessment identity is challenging. Having built strong relationships with students and engaged them in a learning journey, we also have to make judgements about them. More significantly, the work of assessment is a nuanced enterprise where the intention is both to provide feedback, support and encouragement while at the same time offering a grade. Is this essay an 82 or an 88? This project better than that one? This second edition of this popular text is well-written, focused, and a real help to instructors, especially those struggling with their assessment identities.
Browse all Must-Read Books
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Searchable Directory of 65+ Open Universities Worldwide
More than 65 open universities around the world provide open and equal access to education, without requiring students to have formal education or credentials to be admitted. These institutions have a common commitment to open access to quality learning and student success.
Use the directory to search location, contact information, delivery modes, enrolment and more!
Search the Directory
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Upcoming Events in Online Learning
eLearning Africa
15th International Conference & Exhibition on ICT
for Education, Training & Skills Development
Kigali, Rwanda
May 11 – 13, 2022
Africa’s largest conference and exhibition on technology-supported learning, training and skills development, eLearning Africa is a network of leading experts, professionals and investors, committed to the future of education & training in Africa.
The theme for eLearning Africa 2022 is “A New Purpose for Education”.
The deadline for submissions to the Call For Papers is October 1, 2021.
For More Information and to Register
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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.
Visit contactnorth.ca for more information
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