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Arts & Humanities Writing on the Radio

Dr. Helen Chang, Faculty Development Lead, College of Medicine, Regina Campus, shared with us a collaborative approach to Bridging the Distance that is near and dear to our Distance Education hearts. In this post Helen describes an Arts & Humanities Writing class that brings together students from both Saskatoon and Regina, uses the discussion boards …

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Online Course Development Toolkit

We were asked a while back to put together some resources for those instructors who want to develop online courses without collaboration. Kinda a strange request actually. I kept thinking I was designing materials to make myself obsolete. But like I always say. If you can be replaced by a template then you probably should […]

The Medium is the Message: Are We Designing With the Medium In Mind?

Lately, I’ve started thinking more and more about building course materials as a much larger “production”. Perhaps it’s my own background in film & video production that makes me long for the blockbuster distance course. Harkening back to the 1970’s when Televised Distance Education was in it’s hey-day, we were seeing substantial efforts to take […]

CAUCE Webinar: Quality Standards for Distance Education

I’ve been asked to speak on a panel on the topic of Quality Standards for Distance Education for a CAUCE Webinar Series, Valuing Continuing Education: Programs, Promotion and Processes. I’ll be discussing some of the templates that have been developed by the ID team I work with at CCDE, U of S as well as […]