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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.

 

  • 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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