By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies And Web Services
New software programs are proliferating at an amazing rate. Nico Canali De Rossi and Luigi Canali De Rossi (aka Robin Good) have published a useful list of online collaboration tools, none of which I have seen before, even though I did a scan about 6 months ago. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning
As summarized by Academic Impressions: "Online learning has definite advantages over face-to-face instruction when it comes to teaching and learning, according to a new meta-analysis released by the US Department of Education." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The unsung local heroes who are really changing Africa
eLearning Africa News Portal, April 29, 2013
This is really intersting; I wish there were more sources of inffermation about what's actually happening in East Africa (I have to depend on the blogs and reports writtern by the World Bank and other such agencies, exactly the opposite of what's being presented here). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Online Courses or Long Form Journalism? Communicating How the World Works…
Tony Hirst, OUseful Info, April 4, 2013
This is an interesting thought: "wouldn't it be wonderful if somebody put together a Coursera course on Bitcoin, covering whole range: crypto, ops, economics, politics?" The idea, as Tony Hirst correctly summarizes, is that an online course, or even a MOOC, could be offered instead of a long-from news article on a topic of economic or political importance. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Online Learning: Two Big Distractions
Contact North, April 3, 2013
Unattributed article from Contact North pointing to two big "distractions" that draw our focus from what's really happening in educational technology. More...
À force de labourer et d’observer les pratiques collaboratives, coopératives, communautaires, groupales, Thot Cursus devient sans le dire la référence en la matière. L’enjeu est important. Faire de chaque acte pédagogique un acte coopératif c'est entrer dans l'ère de la pairagogie. Thot Cursus communique de longue date sur ces nouvelles pratiques en promouvant des guides pratiques ou en se faisant l’écho des premiers MOOC connectivistes. Plus...
By . In a country as vast as Canada, ‘north’ is always relative. Sudbury (46º N) is considered to be in Northern Ontario, but by latitude it is south of Vancouver (49% N), although undeniably much colder in the winter. More...By . The main public report on online and distance learning in Canadian post-secondary institutions was published last month and is available, in English and French, at either https://onlinelearningsurveycanada.ca/ or https://formationenlignecanada.ca/. More...By . The public report of the 2018 national survey of online and distance learning in Canadian universities and colleges is now available in English and French for free download on the survey web sites:
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. No. 8 aha moment: web 2.0 will change everything in online learning
Tony Bates, online learning, and , distance education resources, March 25, 2013
The latest in his series of 'aha moments' from Tony Bates, this one enters more familiar territory: "web 2.0 will change everything in online learning." So what does that mean. More...
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