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Welcome to APODE Week
https://youtu.be/wGy4nHrTnfM Welcome to the inaugural Asia-Pacific Online and Distance Education Week. A collaboration between ODLAA (Open and Distance Learning Association Australia), timed to coincide with global events in November held by the European Distance Education Network (EDEN) and the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA).
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Programme finalised for Asia-Pacific Online and Distance Education Week
Monday 1 November FLANZ EVENT Equity and Inclusion using Open Educational Resources Monday 1st November 2021: 1130-1230 NZT (Wellington, NZ) Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials aimed at enabling educators to retain, remix, revise, reuse, and redistribute them for free and in perpetuity. With the recent demands made on educators to…
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Webinar Announcement: Equity and inclusion in flexible learning: Challenges across the sectors
This webinar is the fourth in a week of webinars held jointly with ODLAA to mark Asia-Pacific Online and Distance Education Week (APODE). Events in conjunction with (EDEN) European Distance Education Week and (USDLA) United States Distance Learning Association Education Week. This webinar invites four expert perspectives on the question of how the challenges and…
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Announcing Webinar: Equity and Inclusion using Open Educational Resources
This webinar is the first in a week of webinars held jointly with ODLAA to mark Asia-Pacific Online and Distance Education Week (APODE). Events in conjunction with (EDEN) European Distance Education Week and (USDLA) United States Distance Learning Association Education Week. Monday 1st November 2021: 1130-1230 NZT (Wellington, NZ) Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching,…
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Seeing Flexible Learning Spaces Through the Lens of Wearable Technology
Invited Contribution Kalika Kastein, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies “We live in such an amazing world. Things that we thought would be science fiction exist, where you can reach everything at every time, any time,” stated Diane Von Furstenberg in a promotional video for Google Glass.[1] Wearable technologies, like Google Glass, have evolved…
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Newsletter Addendum
We have received a few notices since we emailed the August/September 2021 newsletter out to all members on the 31st August. Here are some recently submitted updates. Open Access Journals International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL) – Issue Vol 22 No3 (2021) Webinars Transforming Assessment. Next session: 6 Oct 2021: Using…
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Taking control: a learner’s perspective on ‘emergency remote teaching’
Invited Contribution Tino Maduku, recent Masters Graduate of Gachon University, South Korea, outlines their personal experience of ’emergency remote teaching’ as a consequence of COVID-19. Their ability to customise and personalise the experience is noteworthy.
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Vol. 25 No. 1 (2021) of Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning is available
JOFDL publishes articles from around the world relating to primary research investigations, literature reviews, the application of open education innovations, and experiences of blended learning as well as teaching at a distance in any sector of education or training. Theoretical and empirically-based research articles as well as case studies of practice and book reviews are…
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2021 FLANZ Conference Presentations now available for Members
Video recordings of many of the presentations and workshops delivered the 2021 FLANZ conference held at Victoria University of Wellington on the 14/15 April are now accessible for members. The video are hosted by ETV and have been linked to (and embedded) on a Members-Only page at: https://flanz.org.nz/membership/members-area/presentations-2021/ . This page is accessible from the…
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2021 Conference Proceedings now available
The proceedings for the 2021 FLANZ conference held at Victoria University of Wellington on the 14/15 April have now been edited and are now available publicly. Accessible here – https://flanz.org.nz/professional-pathways/2021-conference-proceedings/– or by visiting the FLANZ exploring the options under the main menu item entitled ‘Conference’.
