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A useful primer on collaborative learning designs.... even after all these years. [From the hard copy book: Davis, B. G. (1993). Tools for teaching. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers.]

Donald Clark Plan B blog post... dare we call them "facts". Why not. Serves as a useful reminder when creating new designs or revising tired ones.

Not sure about the title "Learning from a book that is not really a book".... interesting comments from this article.

The name says it all. After visiting their Initiatives, Resources, Professional Development, and Community links to be inspired about great teaching and learning.

Part 2

Perhaps it is because I just spent three days in a vortex of design in Moodle after having lived in the WebCT/Blackboard Vista 4 world for a while that I feel some affinity for this article's premise. Perhaps. Still, the issue of a forced pedagogy in the 'CMS/LMS' is a reality and I wonder... just how do faculty go beyond surviving and reach "thriving" in eLearning who have no web design or learning design "skill"? Well, something to consider.

Full citation: Lane, L.M. (April-June 2008). Toolbox or trap? Course management systems and pedagogy. EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol. 31(2). Available from http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/ToolboxorTrapCourseManage/46576?time=1212494680

As colleague Rhonda Epper described, "There is also an excellent article in this month's issue of Educause Review on Ebooks in Higher Education. The author speculates more widespread adoption in the next several years, but he says there needs to be an "iPod equivalent" for the e-reader, which has not yet arrived. He also talks about the cultural shift that is happening from print to digital. "