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Exploring the Future of Education

Students, faculty, colleges, universities, technologies, employer expectations, job market developments, social needs, funding sources – who knows what the future holds for any of these aspects of post-secondary education.  The resources below explore the potential and suggest some positive – and some not-so-positive – possibilities.

 

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    A Snapshot of AI Tools to Create and Curate Content in Higher Education

    March 07, 2023

    We developed a summary of the major tools that colleagues use in course creation, to create social media or blog posts or to curate content. This is not a complete list — there are more than 100 such tools and services.

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    AI In Higher Education Reminds Us of the Borg Catchphrase from Star Trek: “Resistance Is Futile”

    March 07, 2023

    For those who aren’t familiar with the popular sci-fi series Star Trek, the Borg are a group of cyborgs who aim to achieve perfection through the assimilation of the technologies and knowledge of the other alien species they encounter.

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    How ChatGPT Can Help Foster Purposeful Learning

    March 07, 2023

    As educators, we seek to engage students in ways that help them find purpose and meaning in their work. ChatGPT can help us support their learning if we use it creatively.

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    How to Guide Faculty: Navigating the AI Avalanche in Higher Education as an Academic Administrator

    March 07, 2023

    As educators, it’s our job to be curious and to systematically research and test innovation to sort out valid from inept tools. The same applies to the (not so) new AI technology that is taking the world by storm due its easy user interface.

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    Is ChatGPT Triggering a New or Transformed Pedagogy?

    March 07, 2023

    ChatGPT3 was launched in November 2022 and has sparked a huge amount of investigation and conversation about its potential role in education. From our vantage point of March 2023, what might the impacts on pedagogy be?

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    Five Steps to Leverage ChatGPT in Your Teaching

    March 06, 2023

    To help you better understand this new tool and how it can be used, here are five steps you can take to become more familiar with ChatGPT.

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    Seven Major Developments in AI and the Assessment of Learning

    March 06, 2023

    Significant investments have been made in AI assessment tools and development, with US$166 million invested in 2022 alone. More than 15% of EdTech companies are focused on assessment.

  • How You Will Learn in 2030?

    February 23, 2023

    To support program planning and delivery of future services within the post-secondary system, Contact North | Contact Nord surveyed students using its services to imagine how they will learn in 2030.

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    Looking into the Future of AI in Higher Education

    January 18, 2023

    Let’s explore what’s next for AI in higher education and the issues these developments give rise to.

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    AI and the future of Teaching and learning

    January 18, 2023

    ChatGPT found images and relevant video materials and developed a quiz to assess learning.

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    My Five Wishes for Online Learning in 2023

    January 03, 2023

    It’s that time of year to look forward to what a new year might bring, especially in the world of online learning.

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    A Growing Complex Ecosystem of Learning Choices

    December 20, 2022

    In a city of over a million people in Canada (e.g., Toronto, Montreal Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa-Gatineau), there can be over 3,000 providers of adult learning offering over 30,000 learning experiences each year.

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    Five Bold Actions for Canada to Strengthen Its Position as an Education Superpower

    January 06, 2022

    Canada leads the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in educational attainment.

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    Rethinking Learning: The New Learning Hagen Manifesto

    December 13, 2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a lot about how higher education systems favour some and not others. It also revealed many differences between effective and ineffective online learning, and what it takes to make online learning more engaging.

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    Imagining Canada as a Learning Superpower in 2022

    December 01, 2021

    As we look toward a new year and the beginning of the end of the pandemic, it is vital to imagine a bold new 2022.

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    In Pursuit of Equity: Is Online Learning Really the Great Equalizer?

    November 09, 2021

    Post-secondary institutions and policy-makers at all levels tend to see online learning as a response to inequality in education, with the potential to improve access to learning for those who cannot attend campus.

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    It’s Time We All Use Common Definitions for Key Concepts in Online Learning

    September 09, 2021

    As preparations begin in earnest for a return to campus this fall, more colleges, polytechnics and universities are developing online and blended courses as a way to grow enrolment and meet the need for skills and capability development in a fast-changing

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    10 Key Actions to Ensure Micro-Credentials Meet the Needs of Learners and Employers

    May 20, 2021

    As colleges and universities start rolling out micro-credentials, 10 key actions must be taken to ensure these credentials meet the needs of both learners and employers.

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    Micro-Credentials and the Skills Agenda

    November 30, 2020

    Micro-credentials represent a real opportunity to make lifelong learning accessible to all. In this overview, we address 12 fundamental questions about micro-credentials.

  • Online Learning as a Solution to Ontario’s Literacy Problem

    November 13, 2020

    With the support of Contact North | Contact Nord, five organizations have delivered Ontario’s online Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) “e-Channel” program across the province since 2007.

  • Greater Flexibility as the New Mantra for Higher Education

    September 01, 2020

    In reviewing the developments of flexible approaches to development, delivery, assessment and accreditation, five forms of flexibility are explored.

  • Imagine Online Learning in Ontario as an Industry and a Job Creator

    June 09, 2020

    What will it take to accelerate the growth of the EdTech sector in Ontario and see it as a major opportunity for reskilling?

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    Contact North | Contact Nord’s 10 Predictions for Online Learning in 2020

    December 13, 2019

    Here we boldly explore ten patterns and trends likely to dominate online learning around the world in 2020, and capture them as predictions about the future.

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    Preparing for a Different Future - Learning in an Age of Disruption

    November 07, 2019

    A number of change forces are reshaping communities, organizations, work and identity.

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    Tackling Five Major Social and Pedagogical Challenges in Online Learning in Ontario

    August 26, 2019

    As the new academic year starts, let’s continue as a sector to boldly tackle five major social and pedagogical challenges in online learning in Ontario.

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    Get Ready for 5G - Reshaping Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

    April 24, 2019

    When fully deployed across Canada, 5G enables us to do all we can do now faster and more reliably, and also support breakthrough technologies in a variety of fields, including health and education.

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    Contact North | Contact Nord's Top Ten Wish List for Online Learning in 2019

    December 07, 2018

    Offering this list is intended to encourage, challenge, inspire and enable. Let us collectively make 2019 the year of breakthroughs in authentic, engaging and effective online learning and teaching.

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    Five Key Questions About the State of Online Learning

    March 15, 2017

    Because of new modes of teaching and designs for learning, colleges and universities are also rethinking assessment and developing new delivery tools and resources for learning.

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    Making Sense of Flexibility as A Defining Element of Online Learning

    September 08, 2016

    Today online technologies have brought further flexibility to post-secondary education on various dimensions.

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    Uber-U is Already Here

    May 06, 2016

    Smart colleges and universities (as well as high schools and private colleges) are moving in this direction, seeing it as building in new capacities for access and completion at a lower cost.

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    How Ten Key Developments Are Shaping the Future of Technology-Enabled Learning

    May 04, 2016

    These are developments which we see as having the potential to impact, in different ways, the strategic plans and actions of colleges and universities around the world.

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    Amazon, Google and Apple

    April 22, 2016

    What are the plans and strategic intentions of these companies? How disruptive might they be? Will their growth and development change the post-secondary landscape?

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    A 2016 Look at the Future of Online Learning - Part 2

    February 11, 2016

    What we have outlined here are the inter-related changes most likely to occur within the key components of the system – students, programs, teaching and learning, and policy and government.

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    A 2016 Look at the Future of Online Learning - Part 1

    February 01, 2016

    It is not technology that drives adoption; it is the institutional strategy, the changing nature of the student population and the decisions of individual instructors and faculty members.

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    Contact North I Contact Nord’s Top 10 Wish List for Online Learning in 2016

    January 04, 2016

    Rather than resolutions or predictions, we list ten developments we wish for online learning in 2016.

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    What are the transformative developments in online learning to watch for in 2015?

    February 24, 2015

    The surprising predictions of a select group of world experts and thought leaders in online learning.

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    Four Big Changes in Online Learning to Watch In 2015

    January 28, 2015

    The four big changes to online learning to watch in 2015.

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    February 11, 2014

    Think we have seen a lot of change since 1990? Imagine it’s 2034 – post-secondary education hasn’t seen anything yet.

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    Online Learning: Three Big Opportunities for Ontario

    March 26, 2013

    What are the major opportunities that online learning offers for Ontario's colleges and universities, the Ontario post-secondary system as whole, and the student population?

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    Five Fundamental Challenges for Online Learning in Ontario

    March 18, 2013

    There are five major challenges that colleges and universities will need to overcome to position online learning as a core activity of the institution.

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