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Although from 2006, this is an interesting take on preparing students to really engage in online discussion. The faculty, Edward J. Gallagher, creates scaffolds for student engagement principles and practice, has students read the course constitution, and structures the course around the discussion vs. content.

something to think about to scaffold discussion groups

Excellent blog post on distinguishing between learning and training and shows web literacy pathways (badges) that Mozilla is working on. Very current and interesting. Author: Doug Belshaw, August 28, 2014. Highly recommended.

Blog post by Lisa Lane on her Program for Online Teaching class to teach people new to teaching online to articulate their pedagogy for teaching online. She explains how it started as a SMOOC (small to medium) online class in the middle of the quickly paced MOOC movement and how she wishes she had never categorized it as a SMOOC at all (even though it was open to requests to participate). Instead she views it is a class (with textbook and syllabus) guided by the facilitator and content and scaffolded with sequence and mentors/moderators, etc. However, she reverted to the more traditional model as the class was underway. September 4, 2012

very nice list of areas and steps to stay aware of in administering/leading a school to help students and teachers the best they can do, John Wink, principal, May 29, 2015 on his blog. Lists "leveraging collaboration" and scaffolding teachers' PD several times as steps that must be taken.

guest post by Arun Pradhan for Learnnovators on learning ecosystems

interesting post by Louise Pasterfield on supporting, not implementing, social learning, with Slack tool assist at Sponge UK