Recent Submissions

  • 2010 State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada 

    Barbour, Michael K. (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 ...
  • Students Perceptions of Effective Teaching in Higher Education: Face-to-face and at a Distance 

    Johnson, Albert (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 

    Koole, Marguerite; Elsayed Meawad, Fatma; de Waard, Inge (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 ...
  • Learning Issues for Online Graduate Students 

    Edmonds, Kelly (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, ...
  • Exploring Distance Education Research 

    Zawacki-Richter, Olaf (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 ...
  • Message Interactions in Online Asynchronous Discussions: The Problem of Being “Too Nice” 

    Roulet, Geoffrey (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 ...
  • Message Interactions in Online Asynchronous Discussions: The Problem of Being “Too Nice” 

    Roulet, Geoffrey (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 ...
  • Three Generations of Distance Education Pedagogy 

    Terry, Anderson (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 ...
  • Moving Online: taking teaching and learning beyond four walls 

    Stephen, Rowe (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 ...
  • Bi-National Learning and the Internet--Grassroots Experiments in Global Education 

    Egnatoff, William J. (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 ...
  • Blended Online Learning Design: Shaken not Stirred 

    Vaughan, Norm; Power, Michael (2010-04-21)
    Given the crucial role played by universities in a knowledge-based society, understanding how and under what conditions online learning (OL) can improve access to graduate studies is of the highest importance to today’s ...


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