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10 Facts About ChatGPT
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly advancing and making a significant impact in various fields, particularly in education.
In this report, Contact North | Contact Nord looks at ChatGPT, a newly released AI-enabled chatbot that generates concise and fairly accurate responses to complex questions.
Find out the 10 facts that you need to know about ChatGPT
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Free Contact North | Contact Nord Webinar
How to Prepare Students for Learning in Times of Uncertainty
Thursday, January 19, 2023
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET
Register Now!
How can we help prepare students for an increasingly uncertain world? How do we handle a situation with too much information, too many competing interests and too many variables at work?
Answers are everywhere, but which one do we choose?
In this webinar, Dave Cormier, Learning Specialist for the Digital Learning Strategy and Special Projects at the University of Windsor (Ontario), explores the notions of learning in times of uncertainty, how to teach for uncertainty versus teaching the basics, and how we can help prepare students for an uncertain future.
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Free Contact North | Contact Nord Webinar
Digital Learning Trends at Canadian Higher Education Institutions:
Findings from the 2022 National Survey of Online and Digital Learning
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
Register Now!
The big question being asked at higher education institutions across Canada is “What now?”
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed higher education, and there is a greater demand for flexible learning experiences that merge the benefits of online and on-campus learning.
In this webinar, Dr. Nicole Johnson, Executive Director at the Canadian Digital Learning Research Association shares the findings from the 2022 National Survey of Online and Digital Learning, with an emphasis on what these findings imply for the future.
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Dr. Tony Bates’ Latest Blog:
Online Learning and Distance Education
In this latest blog post, Contact North I Contact Nord Research Associate Dr. Tony Bates describes his experience using the newly released chatbot, ChatGPT powered by artificial intelligence, to answer his questions about online learning.
Read Dr. Bates’ post:
Playing with ChatGPT: now I’m scared (a little)
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Podcasts and Vodcasts on Online Learning
Future Trends Forum
The Future Trends Forum, hosted by Bryan Alexander, is a live video conversation space where Bryan and guests — an inspiring expert, visionary, practitioner, or researcher — discuss their area of interest and explore the future of higher education.
Topics include open education, financing education, blockchain and other emerging technologies, institutional transformation, testing and assessment, students hosting their own web content, connections between K-12 and post-secondary schooling, the Internet of Everything, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
All episodes are recorded and archived.
Choose your episode
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This Week’s Must-Read Book
on Online Learning
Student Self-Assessment as a Process for Learning
By Zi Yan (2022)
Students constantly self-assess their skills, learning and abilities. They often are highly self-critical and put themselves down. Learning to self-reflect critically and review is a key lifelong learning skill we need to nurture in our students. This well-researched, evidence-based approach to self-assessment as a learning activity is grounded, practical and thorough. Relevant to school, college and university programs, the book is insightful and helpful.
Browse all Must-Read Books
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Updated!
Directory of Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities and Education and Technology Conferences from Around the World
Search the newly released 48th edition of the Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities and Education and Technology Conferences by Contact North I Contact Nord Research Associate Clayton R. Wright.
Use the directory’s unique search features to filter by date, conference name, topic or country.
Search the directory
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Upcoming Events in Online Learning Education
29th International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) World Conference
November 6 – 10, 2023
San José, Costa Rica
The World Conference offers a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge developments in the field of open, flexible and distance education, as well as a platform to directly impact and contribute to future international, regional and national educational policy discussions.
The conference theme will be “Joining hands in peace for the futures of education,” with sub-themes focused on:
- Global inclusion and social equity through OFDL
- Future learning organizations and structure for societal transformation and sustainability
- The futures of quality open, flexible and distance learning models and technologies
- Networking and collaboration in new educational ecosystems
For more information
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