Online Learning News - October 12, 2022

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How to Use Shared Online Videos, Podcasts and Webcasts to Engage Online Learners

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EST

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Shared online videos, webcasts and podcasts offer a unique knowledge portal to the most adventurous and productive pioneers in most fields and disciplines. And interviews of leaders and emerging scholars in their respective fields serve as a historical roadmap of the progress made, as well as exciting trends seen firsthand by people with decades of experience.

In this session, Dr. Curtis Bonk, professor in the School of Education at Indiana University, details a range of innovative pedagogical uses for shared online video, webcasts and podcasts. 

The Canadian Digital Learning Research Association Wants to Hear from You

2022 Canadian National Survey of Online and Digital Learning

The Canadian Digital Learning Research Association invites you to participate in the 2022 National Survey of Online and Digital Learning. 

The purpose of the survey is to explore key issues in digital learning and to assess the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on digital learning at publicly funded post-secondary institutions in Canada. 

Please complete and submit the survey no later than October 28, 2022.

Participate in the study!

The Future of Learning Technology:
10 Key Tools and Methods

Educators and students have taken a massive leap forward in the pivot to remote learning. But what will the new normal look like?

In this latest Insight Paper, part of a Contact North | Contact Nord series, we look at 10 major educational technology tools, methods and developments that are expected to be more widely adopted within two to three years and will likely be mainstream by 2030.

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Dr. Tony Bates’ Blog:
Online Learning and Distance Education

In this latest blog post, Contact North I Contact Nord Research Associate Dr. Tony Bates reviews the publication Defining Key Terms Related to Digital Learning by Johnson, N., Seaman, J. and Poulin, R. (2022), and outlines the importance of these definitions.

Read Dr. Bates’ blog post: 

What’s in a name? Definitions of digital learning

Leaders & Legends of Online Learning

Dr. Mark Nichols’ Podcast

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

In this episode, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Executive Director Dr. Mark Nichols chats with Dr. Tony Bates about higher education in a post-COVID world and the important considerations for changing teaching methods, planning for improvement and education systems.

This Week’s Must-Read Book on Online Learning

Metaphors of EdTech

By Martin Weller (2022)

Based at the UK’s Open University, Weller is a veteran of the EdTech world. He is insightful, creative, encouraging and realistic. His current analysis — using metaphors to explore the hype versus reality of EdTech — is evidence- and experientially-based and is a great read. Exploring ideas such as “undiscipline,” “alchemy,” “rewilding,” and “eduPunk,” Weller provides a critical reflective analysis of the current state of EdTech, which is now attracting more than $16 billion a year in new venture capital. Throughout this readable (free to access) book, Weller seeks to make sense of the link between what learners need for effective learning, what teachers need to enable that learning and how technology can help rather than hinder. He is also focused on ensuring that the intensely human process of learning, engaging and developing is not lost through the application of reductionist technology. All involved in the development, deployment and use of technology for learning will find real value in this book.

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Contact North | Contact Nord’s 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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Upcoming Events in Online Learning 

EDUCAUSE Annual Conference

October 25–28, 2022 | Denver, Colorado, USA
November 2–3, 2022 | Online

EDUCAUSE Annual Conference brings together professionals and technology providers from around the world to share ideas, grow professionally and discover solutions to today’s challenges.

The conference's community-generated program showcases future directions, best practices, stories of successful collaborations, lessons learned and solutions to community-wide issues within various program tracks.

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