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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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”
(2011-01-31)
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 ...