Online Learning News - February 3, 2021

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Using a Social Media Simulation Tool to Enhance Student Learning and Engagement in a Course on Digital Marketing

A St. Clair College Innovation

Tuesday, February 9, 2021
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (ET)

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Learn how Professor Justina Ciarlariello incorporated a web-based simulation tool that offers a comprehensive hands-on environment for students to learn social media marketing skills.

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

Thursday, February 11, 2021
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (ET)

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Hosted by Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd, this webinar targets those who struggle to stay positive and focused during the pandemic, whether we are students, faculty or administrators in college and universities around the world.

In this interactive webinar, we learn:

• What is personal resilience?
• How do we personally build resilience?
• What do we need to do to develop resilience in our colleagues and to help make our organization agile and nimble?
• What do adaptive and resilient organizations look like and how can we assess where we are as an organization on this critical journey?
• What challenges are we facing in the post-pandemic period that require resilience and agile leadership?

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How to Improve Student Engagement in Your College and University Courses by Using K-12 Teaching Techniques

Thursday, February 4, 2021
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (ET)

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Join our host Dr. Janet Wood Varner, visiting professor in the educational studies department at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, to explore how to:

• Develop successful strategies to engage learners in self-directed learning activities.
• Learn to change the mindset of students from passive to active learning.
• Consider how planning through a lens of access and equity can increase student learning for students of all ages.

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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Still Time to Register!

Learning to Learn Online

Monday, January 18 to Sunday, February 21, 2021

Ideal for:

•  Students learning online for the first time
• Students who want to improve their approach to online learning
• Teachers or education professionals who want to support their students in learning online

1,541 students and educators from 79 countries ‬participated in the September 2020 offering.

Start any time after January 18, 2021. You must complete the course no later than February 21, 2021.

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Read Dr. Tony Bates’ Blog Post

Learning to Learn Online

This blog post is the third in a series of posts on online learning in the K-12 school sector. In this post, Dr. Bates argues why teaching methods and goals need to change when moving classroom learning to online learning for K-12 in Canada.

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

Online learning and (k-12) schools: do we need a different curriculum for online learning?

Must-Read Books on Online Learning

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

Jagannathan, S. (Ed.). (2021). Reimagining Digital Learning for Sustainable Development – How Upskilling, Data Analytics, and Educational Technologies Close the Skills Gap. New York: Routledge.

Shelia Jagannathan has had her finger of the pulse of learning for sustainable development since she joined the World Bank in 2001, where she is now Head of the Open Learning Campus in Washington, DC. A force of nature, she has gathered some truly insightful and creative chapters in this book – there are twenty-seven in all. The book explores major shifts in content formats, pedagogic approaches, technology frameworks, user and design experiences, and learner roles and expectations that are now beginning to reshape our institutions, particularly in emerging economies. The agile, lean, and cost-effective strategies examined here can function in scalable and flexible bandwidth environments to enable education leaders and practitioners to transform brick-and-mortar learning organizations into digital and blended ecosystems.

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