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2010 State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada
(2011-02-01)
This presentation will focus on the 2010 State of the Nation - the third annual survey of K-12 distance education in Canada. This year’s report documents similar trends in the regulation of K-12 distance education from ...
Message Interactions in Online Asynchronous Discussions: The Problem of Being “Too Nice”
(2011-01-21)
Much research concerning asynchronous online discussion reports quantitative data such as frequency of posting, time online, and number of characters or words. To effectively understand online discourse within education ...
Moving Online: taking teaching and learning beyond four walls
(2011-01-20)
In this session, Stephen Rowe shares his experiences developing an entirely online offering of an Australian undergraduate course catering to 200 students enrolled across 3 campuses. The model that was developed serves ...
Exploring Distance Education Research
(2011-01-31)
This presentation summarizes a series of three studies to explore the field of distance education research. The aim of the first study was to develop a validated classification of research areas to organize the body of ...
Three Generations of Distance Education Pedagogy
(2011-01-20)
In this presentation Terry defines three pedagogical models that have defined distance education programming - behavioural/cognitive, constructionist and connectivist. He talks about the challenges and opportunity afforded ...
Learning Issues for Online Graduate Students
(2011-02-01)
Results are shared from a recent doctoral study that explored the leadership implications for delivering online learning in a mainstream Canadian higher education institution by examining the characteristics, attributes, ...
Students Perceptions of Effective Teaching in Higher Education: Face-to-face and at a Distance
(2011-02-01)
Using a unique online approach to data gathering, students were asked to isolate the characteristics they believe are essential to effective teaching at the university level. An open-ended online survey was made available ...
Mobile Learning: Solutions & Challenges
(2011-02-01)
In this session, Marguerite Koole, Fatma Elsayed Meawad, and Inge de Waard will describe two mobile learning projects:
1. A project piloting a Java-based system called “MobiGlam”. Through MobiGlam, students accessed ...
Message Interactions in Online Asynchronous Discussions: The Problem of Being “Too Nice”
(2011-01-31)
Much research concerning asynchronous online discussion reports quantitative data such as frequency of posting, time online, and number of characters or words. To effectively understand online discourse within education ...
Bi-National Learning and the Internet--Grassroots Experiments in Global Education
(2011-01-20)
Students at a French immersion high school in Ottawa and a school in Brazil exchange recipes, using a combination of French, English and Portuguese. The Brazilians discover they like poutine! Children in a rural Sierra ...