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Lessons learned about online professional development from the various participants.

eLearning interactivity is defined as the "dialogue" between learners and eLearning tools through which learners become engaged and involved in the eLearning process. It is a key element of the actual eLearning course design process, and it has proven to be a practice that adds outstanding value to your eLearning course.

While the content, layout, and navigability of your eLearning course are important; determining how a learner's brain actually acquires and retains information is an essential aspect of eLearning design and development . Without a firm grasp of how the brain works and the processes involved in learning new concepts, ideas, and skill sets, even the most experienced Instructional Designer will be unable to develop an effective eLearning course.

Portal for courses, resources and professional development for online learning in K-12. Currently under construction.

Create a public collaborative document instantly and invite others to join you. Great tool if you're working with groups of people that don't have Google accounts, want to do collaborative note-taking, or are working together during a professional development session.

Open source software can be used as we wish, without long-term commitments and with a community of professionals that extend and support them. This post is a post of the series "Free e-Learning Resources" and I am going to talk about free and open source text-to-speech tools for e-Learning.

Home site for the road trip bringing 6 Google Certified teachers from California to our conference in Detroit! Learn about our preconference presenter, Sean Williams and his fellow EdTech Rockstars! "A 5000+ Mile Road Trip to connect two great EdTech Organizations! 6 Google Certified Teachers and two Apple Distinguished Educators in an RV across the country from California to Detroit, Michigan"

Andy Losik encourages shaking the winter blahs by planning to go to conferences - specifically MACUL! True, he's a MACUL officer but this is posted on big time edreach site! Not familiar with edreach? Well, get over there and explore and learn!

"Michigan Virtual University developed this planning document as a practical resource to assist school board members, administrators, teachers, parents and others in meeting student needs. This document presents an overview of online and blended learning, offers guiding questions to support local planning efforts, identifies standards for teaching in online and blended environments and provides student and district planning rubrics." This guide was featured in an article on Page 14 in the Spring 2013 MACUL Journal. http://www.macul.org/downloads/journals/macul_journal_spring_2013_20130114_115352_2.pdf

Site where the presentations from the April 2012 Fraser Hybrid Learning Summit can be downloaded.

Selection of recorded Keynote sessions from MACUL conferences since 2010. This year's recordings usually start showing up several weeks after the conference. Come watch what you missed or re-live the excitement!

An online textbook about planning curriculum for the Web.

from Elluminate, moderated by Steve Hargadon. A social learning network for educatios offers resources, online meeting area with archive. An eSchoolNews site of the Week: Elluminate creates free social learning network for educators. http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/site-of-the-week/site/?i=60325

A web site for online teachers to connect with other online teachers as well as find information and resources to help become a better online teacher.

This conference lecture is available as an MP3 with a SlideShare (64 slides) presentation to accompany it. Suggests a variety of tools that can be used to build a Personal Learning Network. I want to know more...

GenNET Online Learning provides students with a wide range of teacher-led courses, teacher-facilitated courses, and self-directed classroom tools delivered over the Internet.

TPack papers/sessions

Download Individual Chapters of this handbook. Chapters are listed below: Trends and Issues with Online Learning 1. From Reluctant and Reticent to Engaged and Enthusiastic: The Passage to Online Teaching by Susan Giullian 2. Preparing Special Education Teachers Through Online Instruction Donna Sobel 3. Using eCollege to Facilitate Learning, Provide for Program Coherence, Manage Accountability Innovations, and Ensure the Evolution of a Principal Licensure Program by Connie Fulmer 4. Make, Share, Find: Web 2.0 and Informal Learning by Phil Antonelli Technology in Action 5. The Advantages of a Ning Social Network Within a Higher Education Program by Laura Summers 6. Fresh and Forward-thinking: Using Blogs for Educational Purposes by Joanna C. Dunlap & Ellen Stevens 7. Hanging on by a Thread by Dorothy F. Garrison-Wade 8. Instructional Uses of Twitter by Joanna C. Dunlap & Patrick R. Lowenthal 9. Using Audio for Giving Feedback to Project Teams: A Useful Complement to Track Changes by Brent G. Wilson 10. Wordle… Just for Phluff? by Joanna C. Dunlap 11. A Teaching Video Project Brought to Closure by Farah A. Ibrahim 12. Improving the Design of PowerPoint Presentations by Patrick R. Lowenthal

This website is designed as a resource for individuals with varying levels of course design experience to assist them in developing and enhancing courses for higher education.