Online Learning News - April 21, 2021

Learn About Bringing Forward Innovations in In-Person, Blended and Online Learning and Support

Thursday, April 29, 2021
2:30 - 3:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)

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The time is now for educators to challenge themselves to serve their higher calling.

This informative webinar takes a deep dive into a variety of topics, inviting participants to:

• Confront the conflation of emergency remote learning with decades of digital-learning practice
• Explore pandemic-inspired innovations from the professionals and those who are freshly embracing digital tools
• Contemplate what educators want to bring forward
• Discuss how to better connect to the aspirations and needs of students
• Figure out how educators can meet this moment together and make the road ahead far better than the one behind

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Global Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (GBET) Program Centered on Experiential Learning

A Northern College Innovation

Northern College’s new GBET program is a 100% practical learning experience, with students participating in the daily management of a real start-up company and lessons framed as on-the-job training. Professor Will Durocher works with his students to design, build and launch a real technology company. The students focus on the same project across multiple courses, working together virtually to develop a business model based on real potential business opportunities currently in the marketplace.

Professor Will Durocher
Global Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology
(GBET) Program
Northern College

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Learn What Faculty Are Saying About the
Near-Future of Higher Education

Thursday, April 22, 2021
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)

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This one-hour, interactive webinar touches on topics in higher education in Canada from the faculty perspective at our post-secondary institutions.

Topics include:

• Concerns about funding
• Hopes around digital learning and equity
• Questions around micro-credentials and collaboration
• The optimist’s view of what higher education can be and how it can potentially serve Canadian society in broader ways

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Read Dr. Tony Bates’ Blog Post

In this blog post, Dr. Bates describes how parts of his open, online textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age have been used for faculty development in two countries, Iran and Austria.

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

Using ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ for faculty development: two international examples

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