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Category: <span>EDCI 569 OPEN & DISTRIBUTED LEARNING</span>

Emergent Session 2: Current Trends in the Blended and Online Classroom

Blomgren, C. (2017). Current Trends and Perspectives in the K-12 Canadian Blended and Online Classroom. In N. Ostashewski, J. Howell, & M. Cleveland-Innes (Eds.), Optimizing K-12 Education through Online and Blended Learning. Information Science Reference. 10.4018/978-1-5225-0507-5 http://ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/login?url=https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/chapter/full-text-html/159551   What? I like the idea that distance education can contribute to the …

EMERGENT SESSION 1: Building learning communities between remote classrooms using synchronous and asynchronous technology

Building learning communities between remote classrooms using synchronous and asynchronous technology What? In the emergent session 1, our team discussed about how to build learning communities between remote classrooms using synchronous and asynchronous technology. The question was how we felt in the online room or on the screens in terms …

MODULE 6: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

Preparing for the Digital University: A Review of the History and Current State of Distance, Blended, and Online Learning. Retrieved from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation website: http://linkresearchlab.org/PreparingDigitalUniversity.pdf Future Technology Infrastructures for Learning (pages 199-230)   What? This book provide the insights of future technology infrastructure including educational softwares and …

MODULE 5: CHALLENGES AND ISSUES IN OPEN AND DISTRIBUTED EDUCATION

Caines, A., & Glass, E. (2019, Fall). Education before Regulation: Empowering Students to Question Their Data Privacy. EDUCAUSE Review, 54(4). Retrieved from https://er.educause.edu/articles/2019/10/education-before-regulation-empowering-students-to-question-their-data-privacy   What? This article presents that privacy concerns in education fields are being increased since data is an essential factor for learning and teaching process in these …

MODULE 4: THE OTHER OPENS (SCHOLARSHIP, DATA, OPEN ONLINE COURSES, RESEARCH)

Veletsianos, G., & Shaw, A. (2018). Scholars in an increasingly open and digital world: Imagined audiences and their impact on scholars’ online participation. Learning, Media and Technology, 43(1), 17–30. http://ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2017.1305966   What? This study demonstrates that how scholars imagine their audience when they participate in online academic activities. Because there …

MODULE 3: OPEN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES AND LEARNING DESIGN

Shé Ní, C., Farrell, O., Brunton, J., Costello, E., Donlon, E., Trevaskis, S., & Eccles, S. (2019). Teaching online is different: Critical perspectives from the literature. Retrieved from Dublin City University website: https://openteach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Teaching-online-is-different.pdf   What? This reading provides the answer to the question of what is the role of the …

MODULE 2: OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Friesen, N. (2009). Open Educational Resources: New Possibilities for Change and Sustainability. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 10(5). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v10i5.664   What? This article provides the change and sustainability of the OER. Through the survey about online educational resources, the paper suggests that OER initiatives have …

MODULE 1: HISTORY OF OPEN AND DISTRIBUTED LEARNING

Peter, S., & Deimann, M. (2013). On the role of openness in education: A historical reconstruction. Open Praxis, 5(1), 7–14. https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.5.1.23 In this article, the author provides the meaning of openness in education with a historical approach and current debates among the different open initiatives. I have learned from this paper …