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Do you write or prepare content for online courses? Being aware of the readability of text destined for online students is an important consideration when writing and sourcing readings for online courses.

An old colleague and member of a group I belong to posted this. I think it is brilliant to see museum stuff online. She wrote: Amazing how they have integrated the online and physical exhibitions, included multimedia to good effect, and software such as a 'page turner' to allow users to page through Mary Shelley's original hand written pages of Frankenstein. They have embedded social media (facebook, twitter tags etc), and performance measuring software such as Google Analytics. There was a central core team of 6 staff members in Oxford, they used outside companies for the web design and development, as well as user testing in two phases. It took about 5.5 months to create the online exhibition and cost around £30 000 - not bad considering its sophistication and the extent of materials that had to be digitised.

A web application for professional and postgrad online learning

Who connects to whom, a social network analysis of online open source software community

As you'll see, Thomas' infographic shows the current size of major social networks as well as the other well-known online services we use on a daily basis relative to their peers. It also overlays the present size of each company's mobile user base. You'll see Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, MySpace, LinkedIn, and more. You can also check out the agency's infographic from last year to see the relative changes.

Summary of NMIT's Moodle-based Individual Learning Plan project - Semester 1, 2011

10 questions A hybrid or blended course, by definition, reduces face-to-face "seat time" so that students can pursue additional teaching and learning activities online. To be successful, a hybrid or blended course requires careful pedagogical redesign. These ten questions offer you a way to start thinking about some of these design issues. 1. What do you want students to know when they have finished taking your hybrid cour

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