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Whether you are new to Gagne's 9 Events of Instruction or well versed in this area, this is a great resource that includes examples of how to apply this to online or hybrid (blended) course design.

This is one of the best resources for educators involved in designing authentic real world assessment tasks. Jan Herrington is a pioneer of research on "authentic tasks" and online learning and this is a great repository of articles research and resources.

Thank you for sharing this. We have the book in our department----I haven't read it yet. Have you?

Recordings of 60 one-hour sessions from the 2/10 to 2/21 Transforming the Teaching & Learning Environment: the PASSHE Virtual Conference. Many recorded sessions (click 2014 Sessions-by-Date) focus on teaching/designing online/hybrid courses. The virtual conference uses Blackboard Collaborate so you may need to allow the download and running of a .jnlp file.

Multiple choice tests are easy to score but difficult to write well, particularly if you want to assess critical thinking. In this tutorial, you can learn how to analyze multiple choice test questions and get some tips to help you revise / write effective multiple choice questions.

Mobile Learning - Are we designing our courses to meet these students?

This five minute video defines formative assessment and gives examples of technology that can be used.

The faculty engagement subcommittee has developed a faculty self-assessment for online teaching. Check it out! Over the past year, the faculty Engagement subcommittee has worked on a faculty self-asssesment for online teaching. Carol McQuiggan, an instructional designer at Penn State Harrisburg who manged the process, presented the faculty survey and its results at the SLOAN-C conference in Orlando in November of 2008.

Thanks for sharing this resource Beth! Last year I worked with Carol and two other colleagues to revise/update the content of the tool. The main goal was to align it with the Competencies for Online Teaching (https://www.e-education.psu.edu/files/OnlineTeachingCompetencies_FacEngagementSubcommittee.pdf). In addition, we presented the updated version at SLOAN-C in October to solicit feedback. We implemented some of the changes and are putting other suggestions "on hold" as we investigate a different platform to move the tool to in order to address accessibility issues.

Educators are faced with the challenge of adapting their teaching styles to accommodate a new generation of learners. The Net Generation or Millennials, who are now entering colleges and universities, have learning expectations, styles, and needs different from past students.

Some readings I found very interesting and helpful about learning activities and assessment online

EDpuzzle provides a very helpful video curation service. You can source videos from 10 online sources (e.g. TED, YouTube, TeacherTube, etc.). The videos can be edited and questions added. What I find most helpful is the learner tracking features, you can actually see what your learners actually do.

This is an interesting auto ethnographic study of online learning - strikes me as a parallel method to the one Kelvin Thompson explores in his thesis: http://onlinecoursecriticism.blogspot.com.au/2005/08/overview-of-online-course-criticism.html

Another checklist for online/blended courses (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). I liked the straight-forward language.

I chose this link for ch 4 because it provides a (short) list of some online technologies currently available and provides tutorials to learn to use them.

I chose this link for ch 4 because it provides a (short) list of some online technologies currently available and provides tutorials to learn to use them.

Thanks, Beth - I like this site!!! Especially the first YouTube on how to create good PPTs.

e-learning challenge which asked course designers to share their favorite examples of quotes, phrases, and questions they don't like hearing. The examples are moving, so prepare to smile, chuckle, and possibly cry. I espacially like Jason Morris infografic: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47068554/eLearning_Hero_Challenge.png

Looks like an interesting way to add a formative assessment component to a video clip to help focus learners on what's important. A free sign-up and free to use tool. An example of the tool in action accompanying a viral video for Mother's Day can be found at: http://www.educanon.com/public/12221/40843?twitter

Thank you for sharing! I will try this out and see if we want to add it to our flipped classroom training.

Good resource listing steps involved in designing a hybrid course.

This has a nice list of FTF and Online appropriate learning activities. The terms hybrid and blended are used interchangeably to describe a course in which less than half all of the instruction is delivered online. Traditional face-to-face instruction is reduced but not eliminated. With a hybrid course, the goal is to optimize student engagement by taking advantage of the strengths of both the face-to-face and Web-based environments.

Great resource - thanks!