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2-8 minute segments of past Online Forums:\n\nBetter Beginnings: How to Capture Your Audience in 30 Seconds\nwith Carmen Taran * 4 minutes 30 seconds\n \nActions Speak Louder Than Words: Creating Meaningful e-Learning Interactions\nwith Ethan Edwards * 5 minutes 40 seconds\n \nBoredom-proofing Learning Content:\nTips for Making Learning Content Compelling\nwith Patti Shank * 5 minutes\n\nLearning by Viewing vs. Learning by Doing\nwith Ruth Clark * 6 minutes 39 seconds\n\nVisually Thinking e-Learning with Donna Safko\n5 minutes 36 seconds\n\nGreat Tips and Tricks for Developing e-Learning with Captivate 4\nwith Joe Ganci\n

Key Points: * Higher education historically has focused on instructors teaching rather than students learning, an ineffective approach that could seriously hamper the promise of mobile learning. * Successful student learning emerges from active engagement, connection to the students' prior knowledge, and simulation of real world experiences - all facilitated by engaging learners' senses through multimedia. * Higher education should stop thinking about these powerful mobile multimedia devices as only consumption devices - to live up to the promise of mobile learning, students should use them as production devices.

Theories and Models of Learning for Educational Research and Practice. This knowledge base features learning theories that address how people learn. A resource useful for scholars of various fields such as educational psychology, instructional design, and

graphic displays the learning objectives for the course, and connects the course assignments to the learning objectives.  Students can see-at a glance-that work none of course assignments are random or arbitrary (an occasional student complaint), but that each assignment links directly to a course learning objective.

Subscription learning provides an intermittent stream of learning-related interactions to those who are subscribed. 

Instructional Design Wizard walks users through creation of pedagogically-sound courses containing a variety of learning experiences focused on appropriate learning levels. \nThrough an intuitive and accessible drag-and-drop interface, Course Builder organizes and manages the development of a course, its lessons, and its materials, building on the course blueprint provided by the Instructional Design Wizard. Its integration with Learning Environment tools allows a seamless experience for creating items and associating them with one another from one interface, providing a consolidated view of the course

Ninety-seven percent of students enter college with cell phones, yet few universities leverage this ubiquity for teaching and university life. Colleges have two choices: continue to treat mobile devices as a nuisance, or embrace them by leveraging their mobile learning capabilities. ACU's expanded view connects academic, social, and infrastructural m-learning applications. View Quicktime file (small) of Rankin, Saltsman, Dickson "A Campus-Wide Approach for Mobile Learning with iPhones"

It is important that e-Learning professionals, researchers, experts, and learners have a common basis in order to communicate effectively. In other words, they need to "speak the same language".  Therefore, I have created the following list of e-learning glossaries.

Connected Summit 2009 - Podcasts and Presentations Collection of downloadable videos and pdf files from all of the keynotes, spotlights, and class tracks at the ACU Connected Summit, February 2009 Mobile Collaboration: Redefining the Classroom-- Bill Rankin and Kyle Dickson, EDUCAUSE ELI Meetings 2010 Campus-Wide Approach for Mobile Learning with iPhones--Bill Rankin, Kyle Dickson, and George Saltsman, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2008 ACU Connected: the iPhoneand handheld learning--Bill Rankin and Kyle Dickson

Students work through material at their own speed. The program creates a "personalized learning path" that targets exactly what lessons they need to work on and then delivers the appropriate material. Points, badges and other game mechanics theoretically keep students chugging through courses with more motivation. In the meantime, teachers learn which students are struggling with exactly which concepts.

portfolios for learning and their relationship to institutionally supported learning tools and course designs.

Sophia is a content management platform that supports social teaching, has been piloted at college level: Some people describe Sophia as a mash up of Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook - focused solely on teaching and learning. It's where you can teach what you know and learn what you don't. Whether you're a high school student, college student, teacher, professor, tutor or parent, Sophia makes knowledge easier to share, easier to find, and easier to organize. And it's free.

significant 'mobile learning' projects currently underway in the UK and tries to draw out their significance specifically for the education community.The introduction provides a working definition of mobile learning and then tries to identify the meaning and the limitations of the projects described specifically for a readership working in education.

"This chapter offers a case study for using apps scripts to facilitate assessment of student learning and to automate the creation of student feedback reports."

Advice for preparing the big Thanksgiving mea turns out to be so advice that can easily be turned to planning and preparing the perfect e-learning.

This is $100 a year learning in science, engineering, computer science, math.... looks compelling. Is it competition or curriculum we can use?

Resources for those educators wishing to learn more about blogging Rubrics

Several articles on Learning Groups