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Researchers investigated the impact of podcasting on student motivation in the online environment during fall 2008 and spring 2009. Data were collected from students enrolled in fourteen online courses at a research university in the United States. One hundred and ninety-one students completed a modified version of the Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (); it has four subscales: attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction. Strong positive relationships between all subscales were detected. Results indicate students were moderately motivated by the use of podcasts in their online courses. Only available to Butler

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On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.

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Encyclomedia is a free site that contains a huge variety of videos on history, science, nature, people, travel, entertainment and much more. They have designed it as an online video encyclopedia with descriptions and information about each video. You can browse by category or search for different videos. There are a bunch of popup/linked ads, but they have to keep the site running somehow.

Mandatory: an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad (I would argue a tablet in general). "It's getting to the point where there are a number of professions students are going into where knowing how to use technology is required." The article notes "many technology trends become mandatory over time. Today's college students are expected to participate in online forums, e-mail professors and submit papers electronically."

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University of California is hoping to become the nation's first top-tier research institution to offer a bachelor's degree over the Internet comparable in quality to its prestigious campus program

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a variety of tools for learning or improving foreign languages by connecting with native speakers online

Free online video courses from leading universities.

Growing interest in online courses - particularly community colleges that reach out to non traditional students

"Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers"

" This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context."

"When over 300 third through seventh grade students, from Alabama, Arizona, Hawaii, Indiana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Maine work collaboratively to create an online journal, amazing things happen."

More college students than ever before are demanding online classes as an option when they register for classes -- even traditional students who live on campus.