Online Learning News - March 17, 2021

After COVID-19: What’s Next for Online Learning?
A Worldwide Address by
John Baker
President and CEO, D2L

Monday, March 22, 2021
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (ET)

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The WHAT’S NEXT FOR ONLINE LEARNING webinar series features a select group of CEOs sharing their vision of learning online in a post-pandemic world.

John Baker is the inaugural speaker.

With his unique perspective and insights on post-secondary education and corporate learning, Baker’s worldwide address is of particular interest to faculty, instructors, academic administrators, leading designers, EdTech specialists, policy-makers and funders around the world.

Having founded the global software company in 1999 while he was still a student at the University of Waterloo, Baker has a rare ability to challenge and encourage those in the education space to think differently and reach higher.

His worldwide address covers key trends, including:

• What the pandemic has revealed about teaching and learning online
• The latest — both good and bad — across the EdTech sector
• The innovations we can expect to see the coming years
• What the post-pandemic online learning landscape looks like for schools, colleges and universities

Increasing Student Access and Flexibility to Mathematics using the Möbius Platform 

A University of Waterloo Innovation

Read how Dr. Steven Furino, Assistant Dean for Online Studies in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, is providing students with access to flexible and engaging courses, resources and opportunities to practice mathematics online using the Möbius platform.

How to Design a Course for Maximum Student Engagement: Seven Innovative Approaches

Thursday, March 25, 2021
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (ET)

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What approach should we take to course design? What factors should we consider to engage students in active learning? What are the alternatives to using “this week’s topic” and a standard text?

This webinar will suggest seven specific approaches for course design that will be highly engaging for students.

These seven approaches are:

1. Backward design
2. An inquiry-based approach
3. A case-based approach
4. A decoding the discipline approach
5. An active learning or activity-based approach
6. A gamified approach
7. A project-based approach

Our Host:

Dr. Steven Mintz
Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin

Contact North I Contact Nord’s
Searchable Directory of Selected Journals
in Online and Distance Learning

Journals play essential roles in online and distance learning, for sharing the latest in research, innovation, theory, practices, and events. Educators find ideas and connections, building a collective knowledge base that advances teaching, learning, management – and student success.

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How to Motivate and Retain Online Learners

Thursday, March 18, 2021
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. (ET)

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Learn how to inspire your online learners with an assembly of meaningful and purposeful learning activities.

• 10 fully documented and theoretically driven motivational principles that foster interactivity and engagement online.
• A realistic path toward meaningful and engaging online learning.
• Simple and flexible framework for motivating online learners that works.
• Research-backed and proven interactive online ideas and activities.

Our Host:

Dr. Curtis Bonk
Professor of Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University

Read Dr. Tony Bates’ Blog Post

In this blog post, Dr. Bates looks at how we can learn from emergency remote learning to create quality online and blended learning.

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

Post-Pandemic Lesson 3. We know how to do quality online and blended learning, but...

Must-Read Book on Online Learning

Self-directed multimodal learning in higher education

Edited by Jako Olivier (2020)

This commons licensed book is a substantial contribution to our understanding of self-directed learning and its place in the panoply of learning activities. Strongly focused on what is happening in South Africa, the book is relevant to all who are exploring the boundaries of our current practices and are seeking to transform both how we think about learning and our practices in colleges and universities. Well-written (and scholarly), there is a strong focus on the community of inquiry framework for design and approaches to adaptive learning. The book will be of interest to researchers looking at the future of self-directed learning and to futurists exploring the future of colleges, universities and lifelong learning.

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