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"As online classes reduce and often eliminate face-to-face (F2F) interactions, it's important for instructors to learn new ways of understanding and interacting with their online students to further enhance their success. Studies show students' cognitive styles play a key role in their success in online courses."

"anyone anywhere to take M.I.T. courses online free of charge - and for the first time earn official certificates for demonstrating mastery of the subjects taught. "

Seven Common Mistakes Online Students Make -

"Online Experiences in each of the Intelligences - updated for 2010!" Online MI Immersion Experiences

"Make, study and share online flashcards, study guides and quizzes. "

"ClassBadges is a free, online tool where teachers can award badges for student accomplishments. Through your teacher account, you can award badges customized for your classroom or school. "

"we know that people remain hungry for real, in-person connection. Adults have always enjoyed learning together-whether in book clubs, literary salons or meetup groups"

"The development of new technology continues to have an impact on learning. While on the one hand, new technology allows schools and instructors to offer learning in new ways, educators nonetheless continue to face limitations imposed by technology, and sometimes the lack of technology. While access to the internet has increased greatly over the last decade, some schools continue to experience bandwidth shortages and most schools do not have enough computers for every student. Yet, this is changing, and the pace of this change will continue to accelerate."

"The combination of Social and Personalized Learning makes Pear Deck an incredibly effective learning tool in any learning situation."

"Learning Bird is an online application that combines smart technology with engaging digital lessons made by real teachers. It uses grade levels, local curricula, course material, and lesson feedback to match the best lessons to each student. The library of digital content also supports teacher innovation and quality classroom instruction. Inspired teachers delivering student growth. "

" According to one district teacher, all seventh grade English students with signed parental permission slips have been issued school email accounts and/or Google documents accounts."

"spend more time teaching and less time marking written work and leading pupils through dull drills of words and numbers"

THE HUMAN MEMORY Since time immemorial, humans have tried to understand what memory is, how it works and why it goes wrong. It is an important part of what makes us truly human, and yet it is one of the most elusive and misunderstood of human attributes.

I came across this online magazine that covers eLearning while looking for information about YouTube as a learning tool. I think it's a good general resource about eLearning and is probably geared more towards the adult/corporate training side of Learning Technologies as opposed to the K-12 education side but could be used either way. I believe it fits well under the Social Cognitive Theory but each individual article may reach into other theories.

You probably agree that most eLearning courses are designed in a linear format. That is, users of these courses must complete one section prior to continuing to the next. In linear approaches, the sequence of learning events is determined by the instructional designer rather than the learner.