Online Learning News - July 14, 2021 | Welcome to TeachOnline

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A bi-weekly update from Contact North ǀ Contact Nord, Ontario’s Distance Education & Training Network

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In March 2020, some 1.6 billion learners around the world were suddenly being taught through online learning, with many instructors and learners experiencing an online or hybrid platform for the first time.

Is online and fully blended learning here to stay?
Will it become a more substantial component of our post-secondary learning ecosystem?
Has this become the tipping point for online learning?

To find the answers to these questions and more, read Online Learning at a Tipping Point?

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

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

Register Now!

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

Physics Mastery Modules Support
Student Learning

An Ontario Tech University Innovation

Disenchanted with a textbook publisher’s online homework modules for first-year physics students, Ontario Tech University professor Dr. Joseph MacMillan set out to create his own. Read how Dr. MacMillan designed and developed 12 interactive, multimedia modules covering all topics in his course PHY 1010 Physics I.

Dr. Joseph MacMillan
Associate Teaching Professor; Undergraduate Program
Director, Physics
Ontario Tech 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. Som Naidu, internationally renowned scholar in open, flexible, distance and online learning and Executive Editor of the journal Distance Education.

Dr. Som Naidu
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor & Director of the Center
for Flexible Learning
University of the South Pacific

Read Dr. Tony Bates’ Blog Post

In this blog post, Dr. Bates looks at the journal Médiations & Médiatisations special issue on the history of distance education. This journal focuses on issues of importance to distance education and is supported by TÉLUQ, Québec’s distance teaching university.

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

A bit more on the history of distance education

This Week’s Must-Read Book
on Online Learning

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education

By Bryan Alexander

Futurists are in high demand. They have a set of skills and a basis for exploring patterns, trends and signals, which suggest scenarios for emerging futures. Bryan Alexander is a respected futurist and skilled practitioner. This book, published in January 2020 and written before the pandemic, is timely in that it explores some of the precarity about higher education already clear and now exacerbated by the pandemic. He explores these scenarios – peak education, health care nation, open education triumph, augmented (AR/VR) campus, retro campus and “Siri, tutor me” as all having elements of credibility and all raising significant issues. Well-written, focused and insightful, the book deservedly won the 2020 Most Significant Futures Work award from the Association of Professional Futurists. Policy-makers, administrators and concerned colleagues will all find value in the insights, which fill each chapter.

Browse all Must-Read Books

Search the Profiles of 115+ Online Learning Researchers
In the Contact North I Contact Nord Searchable Directory

The researchers share a common commitment to improving online learning experiences for students. They explore topics such as strategies for student engagement, design principles, learning motivation, success and support.

Each profile features the researcher’s interests, key collaborators, institutional information and top three cited publications in the past five years.

Search the Contact North I Contact Nord
Searchable Directory

Free Massive Open Online Course

Learning to Learn Online (LTLO) Express

July 19 to August 15, 2021

LTLO Express is a 4-week course on the transition to online learning, designed especially for youths aged 14 to 22. This course is sponsored by Athabasca University and is completely free.

This course focuses on:

Identifying reasons for learning online
Identifying personal learning preferences
Describing the benefits of multiple modes of learning
Describing features of a learning management system
Explaining the differences between interacting with a classroom teacher and an online instructor
How to stay motivate and set goals
Creating personal learning strategies for successful online learning.

For More Information and to Register

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