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What’s Next in Online Learning:
Leveraging Peer Learning and Assessment

Wednesday, July 14, 2021
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

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In this engaging and interactive webinar, Dr. Mohsen Shahini and Carine Marette, CEOs & Co-Founders of the world-class peer assessment platform Kritik, explore the best and next practices in peer assessment.

By participating in this webinar, you will:

Understand what peer assessment is (and what it’s not)
Identify six ways in which peer assessment can enhance online learning
Understand how peer assessment helps build a community of inquiry
Learn how to use it in team and individual projects
Learn how to give better and more frequent feedback, even with limited TA budgets
Explore what the future of peer assessment could mean for engaged online learning

Digital Storytelling Engages Students in Rural Nursing Course

A Trent University Innovation

Learn how Professor Kim English uses digital storytelling as a key activity in her Rural Nursing Practice course, where students create digital stories to document personal experiences, communicate ideas, raise awareness and inform others.

Kim English
Trent/Fleming School of Nursing
Trent University

Listen to Dr. Mark Nichols’ Podcast

Leaders & Legends of Online Learning is a podcast that brings first-person perspectives from online learning experts that inform and inspire. Each interview lasts about 30 minutes, and links to each guest's work and profile.

In this episode, Dr. Mark Nichols interviews Dr. Lisa Marie Blaschke on the benefits and application of heutagogy for education at all levels.

Dr. Lisa Marie Blaschke
Program Lead
Learnlife

Read Dr. Tony Bates’ Blog Post

In this blog post, Dr. Bates reviews and comments on the recently published research article Profiles of instructor responses to emergency distance learning by Rutherford, T., Karamarkovich, S.M., Xu, D., Tate, T.P., Sato, B., Baker, R.B., & Warschauer, M.

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

Special Pandemic Issue of the Journal ‘Online Learning’ Part 3: How some instructors changed their teaching when they went online during Covid-19

This Week’s Must-Read Book
on Online Learning

Teaching with Clarity: How to Prioritize and Do Less So Students Understand More

By Tony Frontier

Many years ago, the Minister of Education for Singapore spoke eloquently of “teach less, learn more” as a core strategy for education in Singapore. This book is based on this principle. Rather than overwhelm students with content (much of which is redundant), the author uses design principles, which declutter courses by focusing on intentional design, shared and clear purpose and meaningful moments for feedback. Rather than use a textbook, the author encourages us to focus on assessable outcomes and capabilities and then identify what resources, processes and activities are needed for the student to demonstrate capability. Focus is the message.

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European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU)

Innovating Higher Education (I-HE) Conference

Bari, Italy

November 3 to 5, 2021

The Innovating Higher Education (I-HE) conference focuses on trends and high impact factors in global and European higher education. This year's theme is: Higher Education in the new normal: the role of online, blended and distance learning.

Topics include:

Blended and online education
Diversity & inclusion in open and online education
Online education in the post-COVID era
Micro-credentials for continuous education
European university networks, internationalisation and virtual mobility
Quality assurance in blended and online education
Artificial intelligence in teaching and learning
Staff support services in online and distance education
Short learning programmes
Open education and MOOCs, European MOOC Consortium
E-assessment

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