Michael Wesch has been on the lecture circuit for years touting new models of active teaching with technology. The associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University has given TED talks. Wired magazine gave him a Rave Award. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching once named him a national professor of the year.

from the 2005 ASCUE (Association Supporting Computer Users in Education) Conference. I thought this was particularly good with respect to issues of the time demands an online course places on instructors (especially in terms of development and roll-out), as well as on students.