Online Learning Around the Globe

Safary Wa-Mbaleka + Leni Casimiro share about their work in online higher education around the globe on episode 503 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

As we deal with our local contexts, we adjust according to the culture of the people and how they learn.
-Leni Casimiro

Eventually I went to study and get a degree in about online education, then it really became a part of who I am today as an educator.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka

The definition of online education is much more expanded, especially with a lot of the tools that are available today that facilitate collaboration.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka

I believe that artificial intelligence is going to challenge everything that we knew about online education because at this point you can do a lot of things that we have no control over.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka

When you open online courses, you are opening it to serve the whole world. So we need to bring in this global perspective of online education.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka

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Resources

• The Sage Handbook of Online Higher Education by Safary Wa-Mbaleka, Kelvin Thompson, and Leni Casimiro
• Online Learning Consortium
• Coopetition – A made-up word combining cooperation and competition
• Asian Association of Open Universities
• Larch Corrections Center & Canvas – Pursuing Knowledge While Incarcerated
• Glocalization – A made-up word combining global and local efforts

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