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Broken up into skills: speaking, writing, working collaboratively, this site identifies tools to assist in the learning process

Good to help learners "hear their writing" . English Text To Speech Online: English, Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, German, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese voices.

Interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education that deals with the lack of proper research skills of college graduates as they engage the internet.

This book has a chapter on creating a "student-centered syllabus" for an information literacy course, which could come in handy next week!

This page comes from the Chronicle of Higher Education talking about using Facebook to transform your classroom into community.

An interesting question on whether courses have outlived their usefulness online.

This article has some really great ideas and it is a brief read. Great find!

by John Sullivan Why Change? Author provides a practical step-by-step manual for using MS Publisher to design an attractive syllabus.

Ed, I love this option, however in the SON, we are constrained to use the "approved syllabi" by the Curriculum Committee. The belief and supported information tends to validate that consistency among the courses is easier for the students who are enrolled in multiple courses to "find" the information. The creative in me longs for this Publisher option, but the pragmatist must follow the rules!

Hi Ed! Just to follow up on Phyllis' comment - unfortunately, the standardized syllabus is really useful at accreditation time. Accrediting bodies like to be able to see that particular outcomes are being addressed (for example) and having uniform syllabi makes it simpler for departments and schools to demonstrate that. I'm sure that those in our cohort who are administrators can speak more authoritatively about this (and I hope I'm not stating the obvious :)

This is a short article focused on the 2014 Horizon Report and the context of connections. Published in Nursing Education Perspectives journal in their Emerging Technologies section.

Kristy, this is awesome find. The term Connected Age may be one of the next buzz words of our lives. I've added a couple of additional tags so that searching becomes meaningful. Using "nursing" as a tag is perfect because there are about 8 SON faculty who have access to this group. (This cohort and last)

The title does very well in explaining this resource.

Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Talks about the changes occurring with E-Reading.

Interesting piece about the disadvantages of online learning for the visually impaired. Certainly makes me more aware of this dimension.

This is a article from a colleague of mine on his experience "flipping" his classroom.

That's a pretty good overview of things to keep in mind; hopefully, going through this class will help to understand how to put some of these things into practice! I've followed a number of Coursera courses on topics related to my PhD, and I've been trying to keep an eye on what I liked and disliked about the way each course was run, so I hope to incorporate some of that into any future online teaching I do.

Course Design for Content Based Learning

somewhat of a commercial for online learning, but does a good job of outlining global concerns of non-traditional learners. Curiously, like many articles that are older, it seems to attempt to define the non-traditional learner as an older learner, not younger technology savvy learners and those who learn differently.

Although this is written for the younger student the concepts of "visible thinking" in online education are phenomenal. form, function, connection and reflection

This article gives 6 practical tips to manage your time when teaching online

Thanks for sharing this, Simona. Skimming the article you highlighted and a few of the others in the journal, I noticed that some of the themes and suggestions were similar to the ones in the texts assigned by Leah (manage the students and their interactions actively and constantly/consistently, be empathic and explicit); I also appreciate the user-friendliness of these articles, as they include plenty of bullet-points for the busy reader ... Finally, I like that this journal is indeed international, including views on online teaching from around the world. Would be great if we could learn more about how online education functions elsewhere.