Interesting conclusion on his research: Presenting students' common misconceptions in a video alongside the scientific concepts has been shown to increase learning by increasing the amount of mental effort students expend while watching it.

Makes sense what they list as the 10 services. I like #9, pedagogical support: As more and more faculty become involved in online or blended courses, the need for support has grown in lockstep

a wide variety of apps that correlate with the different levels of Bloom's thinking levels.

improving the quality of instructional design will be key to whether MOOCs eventually find their role within American higher education,

Interesting article

"I found that producing video lectures spurred me to hone pedagogical presentation to a far higher level than I had in 10 years of teaching the class on campus," he said. The result was an online class that he describes as "significantly more rigorous and demanding than the on-campus version." It takes an immense amount of work to produce an adequate MOOC," The continuing participation of top faculty members in massive online courses, he said, will depend on whether their colleges are willing to let MOOCs distract them from their traditional duties. At that point, Mr. Owens said, campus officials will need to ask themselves whether they want to give that faculty time to online students, "99 percent of whom who are not at their universities."

Interesting summary -

Interestingly, the center found that students in hybrid classes - those that blended online instruction with a face-to-face component - performed as well academically as those in traditional classes. But hybrid courses are rare, and teaching professors how to manage them is costly and time-consuming. Colleges need to improve online courses before they deploy them widely. Moreover, schools with high numbers of students needing remedial education should consider requiring at least some students to demonstrate success in traditional classes before allowing them to take online courses.

Check out the "why this matters", public vs private discussion.

Interesting article. I am seeing a trend for truly defining an eportfolio to be a web-based application that belongs to the learner.