The Not-So-Distant Learning Podcast
from TrentU Online
The folks of Trent Online, and the greater community of online educators in the Trent Community, get together to talk about how to make online learning a little less lonely, a little less distant, and a little more human.

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In this episode of the Not-So-Distant Learning Podcast, Terry Greene chats with Haroon Akhram-Lodhi. Haroon is a Professor in the Department of International Development Studies at Trent. Throughout these past few remote-teaching semesters, Haroon has…

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In this episode of the Not-So-Distant Learning Podcast, Terry Greene chats with fellow Trent Online peers Stephanie Park and Christian Metaxas, about their plans and schemes to host an offering of the Ontario Extend Program which empowers educators in…

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In this episode of the Not-So-Distant Learning Podcast, co-hosts Maureen Glynn and Terry Greene chat with one of their fellow E-Learning Designers, Stephanie Park, about her work supporting Trent faculty transition their courses to remote delivery…

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In this episode of the Not-So-Distant Learning Podcast, co-hosts Maureen Glynn and Terry Greene chat with Trent Online’s eLearning Technologists, Josh Andrews and Christian Metaxas, about their pivotal, heroic roles in the Trent Online community.

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In this episode of the Not-So-Distant Learning Podcast, co-hosts Maureen Glynn and Terry Greene chat with Trent University’s sole Astronomer on faculty, Dr. David Patton, about how we took a first year Astronomy course into a new, online space!

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In this episode of the Not-So-Distant Learning Podcast, co-hosts Maureen Glynn and Terry Greene chat with Dr. Liana Brown about how she worked with us to build an online version of her third year Sensation and Perception course. A touchy subject!

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In this episode of the Not-So-Distant Learning Podcast, Terry Greene chats with fellow eLearning Designer Dr. Kristine Weglarz about an exciting piece of equipment that Trent Online has at its disposal: the lightboard. We discuss how it works, what it…

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In this episode of the Not-So-Distant Learning Podcast, co-hosts Maureen Glynn and Terry Greene chat with Dr. Else Marie Knudsen about how she worked to build not just an online version for her Social Work 1000 course, but also an entire community…

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In this first proper episode of the Not-So-Distant Learning Podcast, co-hosts Maureen Glynn and Terry Greene chat with Professor Amanda Paxton about how working with Trent Online to create an online version of her course “Write In Time” was like…

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In the inaugural episode of the Not So Distant Learning Podcast, Fergal O’ Hagan, Maureen Glynn and Terry Greene talk about the work of Trent Online, its team members, and how they’d like to use their shiny new podcast to help grow a close online…

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Author

Stephen Hurley
Chief Catalyst, voicEd Radio Canada

Stephen Hurley has spent nearly 40 years as an educator. He has experience as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, a teacher educator and a policy observer.

He has a strong relationship with the EdCan Network (formerly the Canadian Education Association), an organization that inspired the launch and evolution of voicEd Radio Canada.

Hurley believes that stronger connections between education research, practice and policy are essential to the type of change that will be necessary in Canada's public education systems moving forward.