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CVU’s report on the state of online university education in Canada: first...
© CVU, 2012 Creative Commons License Canadian Virtual University (2012) Online University Education in Canada: Challenges and Opportunities Athabasca University AB: Canadian Virtual University. The...
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Will MITx work?
© http://americanhistory.si.edu Coughlin, S. (2012) MIT launches free online ‘fully automated’ course, BBC News, February 13 This article provides details of MITx’s first course, 6.002x: Circuits and...
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A student guide to studying online
What you need to know before you enroll for an online course Although most students adjust very quickly, studying online is different in some ways from studying in class. In particular, it requires...
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One-on-one online tutoring at $28 an hour
© 123RF, 2012 eSchool News (2012) Online tutoring, speech therapy among new eLearning solutions, eSchool News, march 23 The Florida Virtual School (FLVS) is now offering online tutoring for math and...
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Nine steps to quality online learning: Step 8: Communicate, communicate,...
© Care2, 2012 In this post I stress the importance of ongoing, continuing communication between instructor and students in an online environment, and in particular for this to be carefully managed in...
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What’s right and what’s wrong about Coursera-style MOOCs
TED Talks: Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education Daphne Koller, one of the two founders of Coursera, describes some of the key features of the Coursera MOOCs, and the lessons she...
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MOOCs move into credit-based higher education
Kolowich, S. (2012) MOOCs for credit, Inside Higher Education, October 29 This article reports on an interesting deal signed between Coursera and Antioch University. Antioch is a well-established...
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Online learning in 2012: a retrospective
© The Greening of Gavin, 2012 Well, 2012 was certainly the year of the MOOC. Audrey Watters provides a comprehensive overview of what happened with MOOCs in 2012, so I won’t repeat what she has done....
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Distance Education journal: November 2012 edition
Volume 33, No. 3 of Distance Education does not have a particular theme. But all the articles in one way or another discuss critical factors for student success in online or distance learning: the...
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The role of information sciences in online learning: a review of IRRODL, Vol....
An overview of the papers IRRODL (the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning) has once again produced a fascinating themed edition, this time about the application of...
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What happened in online learning in the summer? – 3
Egmont, BC An Ontario online university? I have a strict rule when reporting news to make sure it’s based on published secondary sources – in other words, if I get it wrong, I can blame someone else....
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Tom Carey’s reflections on the HEQCO report on online learning and...
©acreelman.blogspot.com, 2013 Carey, T., & Trick, D. (2013). How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the Literature....
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Welcome back and a review of online learning developments in July and August
Here in Canada, tomorrow is the start of a new academic year. I know, because our garbage cans are full and the back lane is full of discarded furniture as the new students move into new lodgings...
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Alternative ways to improve productivity through online learner-content...
A l’école, Jean Marc Cote, 1901. In this post, I attempt to examine what Sanjay Sharma of MIT calls ‘the magic of the campus‘, how at least some of this can be created in an online environment, and in...
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“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”: a retrospective of my work
Still alive on Sunday Brindley. J. and Paul, R. (2013) Understanding the building blocks of online learning: Through the writings and research of pre-eminent online learning expert, Dr. Tony Bates...
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Improving productivity in online learning: can we scale ‘the learning that...
Can ‘the magic of the campus’ be replicated online – and at scale? The story so far This is a continuation of the discussion on whether online learning can increase educational ‘productivity.’ Previous...
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Leadership in open and distance education universities
Tram in Lisbon The conference For 20 years, the Standing Committee of Presidents (SCOP) of the members of the International Council of Distance Education (ICDE) has provided a unique forum for...
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Productivity and online learning redux
If only it was this simple: Image© Course Gateway, 2013 Summarizing the previous posts In previous posts (see end of this post), I tried to identify a range of areas where online learning might enable...
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2020 Vision: Outlook for online learning in 2014 and way beyond
Taking the long view Doug Saunders in the Globe and Mail on January 4 wrote an interesting piece on prediction, entitled: “Gadgets alone don’t make the future.” Having shown how amazingly accurate...
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Is Athabasca University moving away from tutoring?
image from www.ssmaritime.com. Nolais, J. (2014) Concerns dialed up over ‘call-centre model’ at Alberta’s Athabasca University Metro: Calgary, January 27 More signs of trouble at ‘Canada’s Open...
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