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Contact North: Online Learning News

The latest version of the newsletter is out:

From AI’s disruptive force in classrooms to fresh strategies, tools and global resources, this issue explores where higher education is headed. It captures the tension — and opportunity — between imagining futures and making them work today.

September 10, 2025

 

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FREE webinar!

 From Policy to Practice: How to Make AI Work for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Generative AI is reshaping higher education, creating both opportunities and challenges. This webinar, led by Dr. Sidney Shapiro (University of Lethbridge), explores how institutions can integrate AI responsibly while maintaining academic integrity and equity.

Key Topics:

  • A governance model clarifying roles and responsibilities across institution, department, and course levels
  • Policy and disclosure norms for AI use by students, instructors, and staff
  • Assessment strategies that promote learning and reduce misuse without relying on AI detectors
  • An equity and risk checklist to guide pilots and scale-ups
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Call for Papers (CFP) Special Issue on Highlights of Graduate Projects

Have you done a project? Do you want to share it with the academic community across Canada and around the world?

The Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association( OTESSA) . . .

. . .  is inviting interested authors to submit graduate project highlights for publication in our upcoming annual series, which will showcase exceptional work from project-based (non-thesis/dissertation) programs. High-quality projects will be considered for inclusion in the OTESSA Journal, indexed in prestigious databases like ERIC and EBSCO Education Ultimate. Submissions from authors belonging to structurally marginalized groups are strongly encouraged.

The issue will be published as a two-page highlight with a hyperlink to the full project stored in your institution’s repository.