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

This database is vital for anyone using films or television programs in his/her course.

Students taking a course through the City Colleges of Chicago's Center for Distance Learning are expected to complete this quiz as part of the course's Week 1 orientation activities.

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!

Love Dropbox! This has been so helpful to me when I was working on my dissertation and also for preparation for courses and sharing them to students and colleagues.

Video regarding one method to discourage cheating in online courses

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.

Social Networking in Education Ning Community

This article provides 10 strategies to integrate Twitter in the College Classroom. My favorites include: a) creating a course hashtag to build learning community and share relevant news and content with the class me.mbers, and b) provide basic Twitter training and an overview of Twitter terms and language

I am moving toward more tech and eventually considering textbook-free classes. Step one is trying a semester with Aplia, a text-linked software program that will allow me to entirely design the course using the online version of the text I selected for my students, complete with a grade book and assignment records for each student. I am excited to start using such a technology-intensive approach for my classes.

The Matlab tools are extremely helpful in mathematical modeling and run very well on a home computer. My application was in software engineering at the Master's level. Student license costs are about $200 - $300 or so, depending how many tools are downloaded.

This is a good article which highlights the ways instructors can design the course to reduce cheating.

an interesting TED talk about MOOCs

Simon Nelson tells Times Higher Education podcast original claims were 'overhyped and unrealistic' Massive open online courses will not transform education or destroy the university system, and their potential to disrupt has been overhyped, according to the head of the UK Mooc platform FutureLearn.

Explore European culture to see how World War One challenged traditional views of heroism and created new kinds of heroes and heroines. Produced in collaboration with the University of Leeds.

Managing e-Learning Projects is extremely important for successful e-Learning course design. This article is the third in a series about e-Learning Project Management. Check it out and learn about the Stages of Effective eLearning Project Management and Skill Set Required for Managing eLearning Projects.