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Clearly written and well organized, the purpose of Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators is to enlighten moderators to best practices for creating rich dialogue as well as fostering learning between participants enrolled in online courses. 

he Virtual High School® Cooperative (http://www.govhs.org/website.nsf) and the International Netcourse Teacher Enhancement Coalition (http://intec.concord.org/), the text is rich with examples of effective online discussion forums designed to maximize learning goals within an e-learning format.

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Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.

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The Cloud Computing Movement Will Continue. Investing in purchase-and-install software is falling by the wayside as institutions catch onto the value of using "cloud" applications that are housed (and accessed) online. Not only are these options more affordable and easier to implement, but they also include vast storage capacity that can be used for, say, portfolio assessments. "Using cloud computing, schools can create large collections of loosely-sorted data (such as school records, written documents and even video recordings)," said Bob Spielvogel, CTO at EDC, a Newton, MA-based nonprofit that creates programs to address educational challenges, "and then utilize that information to track project activity and conduct portfolio assessments across the student's entire college career." With these and other uses gaining ground in the higher education space, expect cloud computing's popularity to grow in 2011.

83 percent of American adults now own cell phones and almost three-quarters (73 percent) send and receive text messages.

. Cellphone owners between the ages of 18 and 24 exchange an average of 109.5 messages a day -- that's more than 3200 messages per month. T

cellphones, particularly smart phones, are powerful mobile computing devices.