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The best way to determine how to offer your distance learning course is to consider these items: What do you want your students to know? How do you teach this on campus? How comfortable are you with technology-and do you want to learn? Remember: More technology does not make better teaching or learning.

Video of professor discussing how he uses audio feedback for his online course

Study regarding faculty acceptance of online education

This first of two videos shows what college faculty handouts for research projects do and don't include to assist students with their research.

I faced an internet connection issue, and this article shows how Twitter can be a reliable tool even when there is no connection, as students can receive messages to their phone. I thought it would be interesting to see how Twitter is being used in the Arab world academia

Most surprising: those students who used e-textbooks, prefer textbooks. Study based on 90 or so students, so conclusions should be seen as tentative

Great ideas for branding case studies to start IMC class

FREE webinars include collaboration technologies, Merlot Introduction, and ePortfolios in the Cloud. Resources include Sloan Semester Archives that tell the story of how "Using online learning, colleges and universities from across the country responded in record numbers to help students and institutions impacted by the storms. Dubbed "Sloan Semester" the initiative provided free online courses to students impacted by Katrina and Rita storms." Here you can identify more benchmarks in a useful case-study of how Institutions committed to online learning were transformed to leverage learning resources in a time of need. I know that Illinois schools looked at Elluminate when H1N1 was an active global pandemic.

Interesting link on Twitter in Education. Twitter seems to be here to stay. However, numerous recent studies have shown that education in general has been slow to adopt social media.

See Best Practices tagged by Use Categories: Medical, MBA Programs, Engineering, LMS Integration, Professional Development, Blended Online/Onsite Events, Online Events/Communities, Virtual Office Hours/Tutoring, Staff/Administration, Meeting Collaboration. *Elluminati* (Power User) Slideshare of Higher Education Case Studies (begins @ p 68) shows exceptional applications of Elluminate Live and identifies benchmark institutions for collaboration, mentoring, or peer review. I plan to add SLOAN-C to my PLN Personal Learning Network.

This is an excellence resource for first time college students.

Collaborative Technologies | Feature From Twitter to Edmodo: Schools Collaborate With Social Media Schools are using a variety of social media tools to help students connect and work together. A great resource with many options to use in the classroom as well as information on security.

This blog has followed social gaming juggernaut Zynga's progress for a couple years now. One of its most popular gaming apps is FarmVille, which runs on Facebook and touts an estimated 70 million players, making it one of, if not the, most popular games ever. Testaments to the game's popularity abound. I opted to post this here as we are debating the use of Web 2.0 tools in education. Farmville dominated Facebook games for a number of years, and educators made use of this trend to enhance their teaching. Though it has not been developed for educational purposes, I know even teachers of business studies who used it in their classes with students 13+ of age. This example should encourage us to make use of what is trending and popular with our students to our advantage!

I don't even know what tumbler is! I better get back in the game...

#TT1921 (Beverly Bradley) Hi Tess and Margaret! I agree Margaret Tumblr is a great asset. I would also suggest Peergrade.

Role of social media in higher education

Khan Academy has great ready made videos for A&P students needing additional support in their studies. I highly recommend their content and videos.

Recent article on using social media

TT1921 (M Oyeleye) Prof. Garrett, What a great article to read! I was intrigued with this question, which I have tweaked a bit - "How can we as educators make the best use of Twitter or Diigo to help connect our students with amazing, inspiring personalities in the various fields we teach"?. Please, I will be interested in any response or comment on this?

One of many good articles for this week's study. I especially liked the Facebook uses.

This is the site for the digital publication site that won the 2019 Open Publishing Awards "Open Publishing Model" award. The publications in the site are from the AFRO PWW series of the Illinois Open Publishing Network.

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the May 2017 issue of Teaching for High Potential. Research from Mathematica and CREDO have shown disappointing results for online schools, though the studies do not address how well or poorly they serve gifted students.