Mastering the craft demands time to collaborate-just what American schools don't provide.

Research on formative assessment and feedback is re-interpreted to show how these processes can help students take control of their own learning - i.e. become self-regulated learners.

Importance of embedding ongoing formative assessment and feedback into online instructional activities and aligning the student data collected from these activities so that it can be used to inform and modify the learning activities of the students as well as the teaching activities of the instructor.

Special report features 12 articles that will cause you to examine your current methods of online assessment.

Continuous Formative Assessment (CFA) model for utilizing cloud- based collaborative document technology to instantly collect responses from multiple students, groups, and class sections

Vision of the future that integrates technology, neuroscience, and educational psychology into everyday life to make anytime, anywhere learning possible. These videos demonstrate how innovative connections among technology, content, and life beyond formal schooling can change how we think of learning.

PDF book - Making a real connection between classroom activities and learning behavior.

In this first episode of the School of Thought video series, the future of education technology is explored by following Rey, a high school student. Using games and simulations, Rey is highly engaged with a performance assessment, which requires him to apply higher-order thinking skills to work through thematically-linked activities set in real-world contexts

Attrition among mature adult online learners is affected by sociological, psychological, technical and cognitive factors, critical features of which are the notions of cognitive load and locus of control.

Of all the best practices for online teaching, the most important practice is "being there." Being there is the core of presence, letting your students know that you are there to direct, to guide, to listen and to share your expertise with your learners. This tip takes you on a guide through a Garden of Three Presences for Online Teaching and Learning - Social Presence, Teaching Presence and Cognitive Presence (Garrison, 2006b). This tip defines the three types of presence and then lists tools and behaviors - for both faculty and students -that support these three types of presence.

Paper focuses on two components of a model for online teaching and learning -" teaching presence " and "community".

Predicted to be America's first generation to exceed 100 million persons,1 the wave of Net Geners entering colleges and universities brings a blend of behaviors, attitudes, and expectations that creates opportunities-as well as challenges-for higher education.

Interactive and personalized approach to online education has resulted in high student retention rates and high levels of student satisfaction

Interactive and personalized approach to online education has resulted in high student retention rates and high levels of student satisfaction.

Trust development in online courses

Recommendations for integrating effective online communication into programming and instruction to increase student connectivity, engagement, and retention.

Study assessed the quality of peer reviews when they gave audio versus written feedback to their classmates.

Study finds that providing feedback using audio files leads to improvements in both quantity and quality.

Using VoiceThread in an entirely online course to explore students' perceptions of using multi-modal communication for collaboration and knowledge sharing.