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The Centre for Distance Education (CDE) provides high quality online graduate programs that develop both practical, employable skills and a solid theoretical foundation. As professionals and academics, our students are active contributors to the field of online, blended, and distance education.
We offer respected graduate degree programs in distance education at both the Master’s and Doctoral levels in which students have the opportunity to pursue original research. Our post-baccalaureate certificate and diploma programs are excellent avenues for gaining exposure to graduate studies while seeking recognized professional credentials.
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Micro-Credentials Landscape Report:Transforming workforce futures: Strategic perspectives and practices for university micro-credentials
(Unpublished manuscript, 2021-01-10)The global workforce and economy are at a crossroads. Amidst the dramatic economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, organisations in the public and private sector are increasingly faced with new economic and workforce ... -
Perspectives of Canadian Distance Educators on the Move to Online Learning
(Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2021-04)Our qualitative study explored transition in seven Canadian universities—early providers of distance education that transitioned to online learning between 2002 and 2017. We interviewed 16 individuals who were involved ... -
A systems analysis of TeleEducation NB - a province-wide distributed distance learning network
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Access Copyright and Fair Dealing Guidelines in Higher Educational Institutions in Canada: A Survey
(Partnership: Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2018)Information about the acceptance by Canadian Higher Education Institutions (HEI) of the Access Copyright (AC) tariff is important for educators even though only a minority of HEIs in Canada have committed to the AC tariff. ... -
McGreal, R. (2017). Special Report on the Role of Open Educational Resources in Supporting the Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education Challenges and Opportunities
(IRRODL, 2017)Open Educational Resources (OER) and their offspring, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), are becoming important factors in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education (SDG4). This was recognised early ... -
Hearables for online learning
(IRRODL, 2018-09-30)Hearables are wireless smart micro-computers with artificial intelligence that incorporate both speakers and microphones. They fit in the ears and can connect to the Internet and to other devices; they are designed to be ... -
Access Copyright and Fair Dealing Guidelines in Higher Educational Institutions in Canada: A Survey
(Partnership: Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2018-12-31)Information about the acceptance by Canadian Higher Education Institutions (HEI) of the Access Copyright (AC) tariff is important for educators even though only a minority of HEIs in Canada have committed to the AC tariff. ... -
Formalising informal learning: Assessment and accreditation challenges within disaggregated systems
(Open Praxis, 2014)This paper shares the findings and lessons learned from an investigation into the economics of disaggregated models for assessing and accrediting informal learners, with particular attention to the OER universitas (OERu) ... -
Curriculum Vitae
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Interaction pattern analysis in cMOOCs based on the connectivist interaction and engagement framework
(British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017-01)Connectivist learning is interaction-centered learning. A framework describing interaction and cognitive engagement in connectivist learning was constructed using logical reasoning techniques. The framework and analysis ... -
The Future of E-Learning
(2016-06-23)This is not the first attempt to predict the future of e-learning and our first confident prediction is that it will not be the last. Our intent in this chapter is to focus less on the digital technologies involved and ... -
Mobile Learning Innovation in Information Literacy Skills Training
(2015-10)The Mobile Information Literacy (MIL) tool is a user-friendly literacy app to help university students hone their information literacy skills through mobile technology. -
Using mobile technology to enhance undergraduate student digital information literacy skills: A Canadian case study
(IAFOR, 2015-07-07)Learning essential information literacy skills through the use of mobile phones is an innovative m-learning pilot project that was collaboratively undertaken in a Canadian university college over the course of two academic ... -
Lost in social space: Information retrieval issues in Web 1.5
(Journal of Digital Information, 2009-01)This paper is concerned with the application of Web 2.0 technologies within a conventional institutional learning setting. After considering the affordances of Web 2.0 technologies vs Web 1.0 technologies and a framework ... -
Invited Commentary on Reusing Online Resources, Chapter 19: Reuse of Resources within Communities of Practice, by Rachel Harris and Carol Higgison.
(Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2003)The Online Tutoring Skills (OtiS) e-workshop described in this chapter makes a significant contribution to knowledge of how to effectively design and manage virtual conferences or e-workshops. In addition they provide a ... -
Invited Commentary on Reusing Online Resources, Chapter 17: A Comparison of Issues in Reuse of Resources in Schools and Colleges, by Allison Littlejohn, Insung Jung and Liz Broumley.
(Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2003)This chapter forces us to confront an issue that has long haunted education technology focused reformers ? what if we build it and nobody comes? Will learning objects end up alongside programmed learning machines, educational ... -
Book Review of Delivering Digitally by Inglis, Ling and Joosten
(IRRODL, 2002-10)We know that significant organizational change must have roots both at the top of an organization and “in the trenches” amongst those who must implement the change. In the middle lies a critical group of middle managers, ... -
Conference Connections: Rewiring the Circuit.
(EDUCAUSE Review, 2008-03)In late 1971, several entirely forgettable messages were sent between two machines (today we would call them computers, but the word machines more accurately reflects their size at that time) located only a few feet from ...
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