The recommended resources on this page assist instructors with their digital learning competencies, online learning knowledge and skills related to designing and delivering courses and classes using educational technologies.
Teaching in a Digital Age (Open Book)
- Author: Tony Bates, Contact North, Research Associate
- About: The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when all of us, and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. A framework for making decisions about your teaching is provided, while understanding that every subject is different, and every instructor has something unique and special to bring to their teaching. The book enables teachers and instructors to help students develop the knowledge and skills they will need in a digital age: not so much the IT skills, but the thinking and attitudes to learning that will bring them success.
- Notes: Third edition, open text, August 2022
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online learning and distance education resources
- Author: Tony Bates
- About: Tony’s personal site for resources in online learning and distance education. It is personal because it contains the resources I have found useful and interesting. I focus mainly on resources associated with or relevant to universities and colleges. This site is meant as a resource for students, faculty and academic administrators interested in online learning. I also hope that policy-makers will drop in from time to time, as I deal with a number of issues that affect government and other funding agencies. The priority for all posts on this site is quality.
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online Assessment in higher education
Fostering Student Success in Online Courses
- Author: Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning (University of Calgary)
- About: This guide aims to provide an evidence-based background on the prevalence, benefits, challenges and importance of online student assessment in higher education. Outline strategies and recommendations from research and practice that can be used to mitigate challenges of assessing students online. Encourage instructors to thoughtfully design student assessments for use in online courses.
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- Author: Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning (University of Calgary)
- About: The guide contains nine chapters contributed by members of the Teaching Academy from across disciplines involved in undergraduate and/or graduate instruction, writing solo or with collaborators, to highlight an aspect of their teaching that leverages the online environment to enhance student learning. Each of these chapters offers sage, pragmatic descriptions of course contexts, design considerations, and implementation, for online assessments (Chapter 1, 4), for innovative learning activities (Chapter 2, 6), for flexible course design (Chapter 5, 7), for engaging large classes (Chapter 8), for facilitating group work (Chapter 9), and for intentionally addressing the need for students to flourish (Chapter 3). Importantly, for the reader, each chapter shares the wisdom of practice of the author/s, discussing implications of use and giving concrete recommendations for those who are thinking of applying similar strategies.
- Link – Fostering Student Success in Online Courses
Teach online
- Author: Contact North
- About: This site was launched in 2010 as a resource for post-secondary faculty and instructors in Ontario to find the latest information on new technology and new developments in online learning, as well as practical tools and resources to help them integrate technology in their teaching in a way that improves the learning experience for their students. More than 375,000 faculty and instructors visit this site each year. A growing collection of analyses, commentaries, resources, and practical advice that tracks the latest tools and trends in online learning in Ontario, Canada, and around the world.
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eCampus Ontario
- Author: eCampusOntario
- About: eCampusOntario is a provincially-funded non-profit organization that leads a consortium of the province’s publicly-funded colleges, universities and indigenous institutes to develop and test online learning tools to advance the use of education technology and digital learning environments.Officially registered as the Ontario Online Learning Consortium (OOLC) and referred to as eCampusOntario.
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Educause
- Author: Educause
- About: EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to lead the way, advancing the strategic use of technology and data to further the promise of higher education.
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online learning consortium
- Author: OLC
- About: The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) is a collaborative community of higher education leaders and innovators, dedicated to advancing quality digital teaching and learning experiences designed to reach and engage the modern learner – anyone, anywhere, anytime. OLC inspires innovation and quality through an extensive set of resources, including best-practice publications, quality benchmarking, leading-edge instruction, community-driven conferences, practitioner-based and empirical research, and expert guidance.
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