Online Learning News - October 3, 2018

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

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Ten Key Facts About Learning Analytics

Discover ten key facts about learning analytics in an easy to digest format. Each fact is supplemented with links to worldwide resources extending and deepening the core idea.

Learn how learning analytics can benefit students, faculty, programs and institutions.

Ten Key Facts About Learning Analytics is the third in a series by Contact North I Contact Nord on current and emerging tools influencing and shaping online learning, including Blended Learning, OER, Artificial Intelligence, Online Proctoring, and Blockchain.

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View the presentation schedule and details on the 120+ sessions, representing 500 authors and presenters, available for you as a delegate at ONLINE LEARNING 2018.

Explore some of the many ways that “open” approaches can change and challenge higher education, with examples from Switzerland and The Netherlands.

Discover how the University of Geneva in Switzerland integrated real life research into a MOOC in which participants get access to satellite recording activity in other solar systems to look for new planets. Learners better appreciate the scientific method of investigating, recording and assessing data and are motivated by analyzing real data – and possibly making a discovery and adding to knowledge.

Read about the key questions on online learning being explored through research coordinated at the Open University of The Netherlands. The studies include: self-regulation of learners taking MOOCs; motivations and intentions of MOOC dropouts; scaling up peer assessment; and the links between universities, open online education and innovation, including issues of adoption and sustainability.

Explore how Higher Education is Experimenting with Artificial Intelligence

20 Examples from Canada, United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Croatia, Kuwait, Palestine, China and Australia

Do you have questions about the applications, usefulness and challenges of artificial intelligence in higher education? These 20 applications illustrate how AI is used in assessment, student engagement, adaptive learning and multiple other teaching, learning and administrative tasks. Explore the possibilities!

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List of Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences from Around the World

The latest edition of the Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences by Contact North I Contact Nord Research Associate, Clayton R. Wright, includes conferences from June to December 2018, as well as many in 2019 and even 2020 Sort filters include conference title, date, country, organizer, and venue as well as a keyword search.

The sort and search options are unique features offered by Contact North I Contact Nord to enhance your experience as you look through the more than 1,700 conferences listed in this directory.

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Must-Read Books on Online Learning

Books to inspire and guide those committed to the development, expansion and improvement of online learning.

For Faculty and Instructors

Online Teaching at Its Best: Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research

For Instructional Designers

Motivation, Learning, and Technology: Embodied Educational Motivation

For Policy-Makers and Administrators

Learning Analytics Goes to School: A Collaborative Approach to Improving Education

Transactional Distance and Adaptive Learning
Planning for the Future of Higher Education

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Visual Literacies: Exploring Educational Practices and Technologies

FREE Five-Week MOOC for Educators
by Lancaster University, UK

Launching October 8, 2018

Join Lancaster University to develop your visual literacy and explore how experienced educators are making teaching and learning more visual with digital resources like infographics, comics, holograms, virtual & augmented reality.

Participate in six webinars presented by leading academics from around the world.

Visit https://mooc.viliproject.eu/ for more information and to register.

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