Centre for Distance Education: Recent submissions
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Transforming Higher Education: Agency and the Instructional Designer
(American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, CA, 2006-04)In addition to the important role instructional designers play in the design and development of instructional products and programs, they also act in communities of practice as agents in changing the way traditional colleges ... -
Instructional Designers Perceptions of Their Agency: Tales of Change and Community
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Using Problem-Based Learning in Online Courses: A New Hope?
(M. Bullen & Janes (Eds.). Making the Transition to E-Learning: Strategies and Issues. Idea Group. Hersey, PA., 2006)In this chapter, I argue that instructional designers must use research and theory to guide them to new and justified instructional practices when designing e-learning. I introduce a well-established pedagogy, Problem-Based ... -
The Search for Learning Community in Learner-Paced Distance Education Programming Or "Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too!
(Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 2003)University distance and e-learning programs generally follow one of two models. Most dual mode institutions and some open universities follow a model of cohort learning. Students start and terminate each course at the same ... -
Online Education Innovation: Going Boldly Where Others Fear To Thread
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Online and face-to-face group interaction processes compared using Bales’ Interaction Process Analysis (IPA).
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Getting the Mix Right Again: An updated and theoretical rationale for interaction
(2003)No topic raises more contentious debate among educators than the role of interaction as a crucial component of the education process. This debate is fueled by surface problems of definition and vested interests of professional ... -
TeleEducation NB: People problems and solutions in a Canadian province-wide distributed distance learning network
(DEOS News, 1999)TeleEducation NB (TENB) is a province-wide distributed learning network that assists educational institutions and private sector companies in delivering distance education. As an example of a province-wide distributed ... -
Standards: it is not just about compliance
(Elearning Reports, 2005-01)On a recent conference tour of the Americas, and before setting off to Australia for CORDRAs and Hawaii for IEEEs PERL workshops, respectively, CanCore’s Norm Friesen and Rory McGreal took a breather to discuss the latest ... -
The TeleEducation NB Programme Development Fund: Using distance education to promote economic development
(Canadian Association of Distance Education, 2000)The initial TeleEducation New Brunswick Programme Development Fund (PDF) was a provincial economic development initiative that supported proposals for the design of online distance education courses and programs. It provided ... -
Learning object repository technologies for telelearning: The evolution of POOL and CanCore
(Proceedings of the IS2002, Informing Science + IT Education Conference, 2002-07)Repositories provide mechanisms to encourage the discovery, exchange and re-use of learning objects. This paper describes Portals for On-line Objects in Learning (POOL), a consortium project of the TeleLearning NCE to ... -
TeleCampus student numbers survey
(DEOS News, 2000)A survey was undertaken to determine the number of students worldwide currently studying online. The authors surveyed 520 institutions whose courses are listed in the TeleCampus Online Course Directory to obtain enrollment ... -
The evolution of learning object repository technologies: Portals for On-line Objects for Learning
(Canadian Association of Distance Education, 2003)Learning objects are the digital files that are used to construct e-learning experiences, and repositories provide mechanisms to encourage their discovery, exchange, and reuse. Portals for On-line Objects in Learning ... -
International E-learning specifications. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
(International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2002-10)A previous report in this series discussed the classification of online course delivery systems according to the Advanced Distributed Learning Partnerships (ADL), and the international standards accepted by the ADL. The ... -
TeleEducation NB and the Telecampus online course database: Building the learning industry in New Brunswick
(Commonwealth of Learning, 1999)The TeleCampus online course database (http://database.telecampus.com) is a project of TeleEducation NB. It has implemented as a comprehensive online course database sponsored by Industry Canada, the World Bank, the ... -
Before you begin: An online tutorial for new distance learners
(TeleEducation NB, 1999)What is distance learning all about? - What is distance learning? - How does a distance course work? - What are the benefits of distance education? - Is one type of distance education more effective than another? - What ... -
Audiographic network: A guide for new users (Réseau audiographique: Guide pour les nouveaux utilisateurs)
(TeleEducation NB, 1998)This guide, intended for all new users, has been developed to assist you in planning for the use of the audiographics network, starting with the request for network use process up to the start-up of the course. Items to ... -
Teleeducation NB: Developing a provincial learning industry
(T,H.E. Journal, 1998)The NB provincial advanced training technology sector gains enormously from the TeleCampus initiative. Opportunities for profit are increased as on-line training projects that are exportable outside the province are ... -
Course developers' guidelines
(TeleEducation NB, 1995)This guide has been created to provide World Wide Web course developers with a set of common standards and guidelines for publishing courses on line. Some of the standards make eminent sense to everyone, others have been ... -
TeleEducation NB: An open, distributed, bilingual Province-wide distance education network
(TeleEducation NB, 1994)Description of TeleEducation NB