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As we begin our peer Assessment, this Article from Troy who hAs used the QuAlity MAtters rubric in their Assessment of online courses gives greAt tips And tidbits for further improvement

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 Florida Gulf Coast's site for online coursework design which includes their guidance for the steps in coursework development (instructional design, goals and objectives, etc...) as well as advice on media and technology use and other factors. I saw a few items which mimicked items from our readings.

Course Design for Content Based Learning

The uphill struggle to implement OER at a university.

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.

Researchers are saying the most pervasive learning disability in schools--and the major challenge for UDL--is emotional--changing the perspective of tuned out students.

Nurse Educ Pract. 2010 Nov;10(6):322-6. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2010.05.001. This article describes use of the heutagogical approach to nursing education - a practice based (and competency driven) program of study.

Article summAry: "This content is meAnt to do two things. It will, for the uninitiAted, summArize the origins of heutAgogy And the theories from which it wAs derived. At the sAme time we will hAve A look At more recent work And thinking from Authors Around the globe And see whAt they hAve discovered through using or thinking About heutAgogicAl principles. The mAin theme is thAt people Are nAturAlly very efficient leArners And thAt we cAn more effectively mAke use of this fAct in our current educAtion And trAining systems."