online learning

News: Seed of Doubt

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This is a report of a study to “refute” the Dept of Ed meta-study that student results of online (particularly hybrid) courses is superior to on-campus courses. Unfortunately, the authors […]

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As many know, the Horizon Report comes out each year to capsulize technology trends that are significant to the academy. This year, the keywords are “data sense-making, the cloud, and […]

Technology vs. Knowledge

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The link below is to an excellent short essay by Chris Dede of the Harvard School of Ed. In the piece, he describes the meeting of classical approaches to education […]

First Look: Apple iPad

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Is it possible that in a few years all our students will all have an iPad-type device costing under $300? Instead of heavy backpacks, overpriced textbooks, and notebooks, this device […]

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This short video introduction to Moodle gives a little of the history and background of Moodle. Moodle Tutorials ::: Educating Educators – A general Moodle presentation. Posted using ShareThis

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Karen CH writes: ” I have put up the following copyright page which  can be found at:  http://www.berkshirecc.edu/library_copyright_info Faculty and staff may not understand, especially in the digital world, that […]

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As featured in a previous post here, Cushing Academy, a private high school in Eastern Mass, has eliminated all the books and gone to a completely digital library. The item […]

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This is from the Tomorrow’s Professor blog, and features a concise description of some of the main principles of constructivist philosophy: 987. The Constructivist Approach and Online Learning Posted using […]

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SNS = social networking site, like Facebook, MySpace, etc. As I contemplate using a Ning social networking module in a Blackboard-based course this Spring, I decided it might be a […]