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From Inside Higher Ed: The Obama Plan July 15, 2009 President Obama, as he promised he would, placed community colleges Tuesday in the center of his plans to revitalize the […]

Making it visual = amazing

Please watch this: it really is an amazing and interesting testament to the power of technology to present information in new ways that illuminate the issues: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html

Behavioral Sci and Health instructors might be interested in using some of these videos in courses: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodResourceCenter/

“Getting the Mix Right Again: An updated and theoretical rationale for interaction” by Terry Anderson in The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 4, No 2 (2003): […]

“One of the first tasks teachers face when designing a course is deciding what they want students to learn or get out of their course. Students will always learn something, […]

I just learned this model from my colleague Don Tracia at Bunker Hill – worthy of consideration! http://www.e-learningguru.com/articles/art3_3.htm

"Opening Up Education" Remix Version

Opening Up Education, edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M.S. Vijay Kumar, has been reproduced on the Academic Commons site. This is well worth scanning and picking out articles of interest: […]