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Good article on academic uses of Twitter. Also includes instructions on how to embed twitter in your blog, wiki, etc.

Article about incorporating social media into courses.

A new trend in education, reverse instruction involves students receiving instruction off-site and completing homework in-class.

How to use itunes to post presentations for students

Kolowich, S. (2012) Who takes MOOCs? Inside Higher Education, June 5 Article about a survey of 14,000 participants in Stanford's Andrew Ng's course on machine learning. It should be noted that the response rate is around 14% of all those that enrolled. The most common reason was that participants were curious about the topic. NOTE from poster - take a look at Coursera as well.

Homepage for Journal of Online Teaching and Learning

Back to May 1970--a paper on the beginnings of CAI, Computer Assisted Instruction, and a preview of online learning and "Man-Machine" interactions.

UIS Center for Online Learning...

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With every gift there comes a curse.

For Blackboard Users--Tutorials from UIS Center for Online Learning, Research and Service --Jim G

Academic Article on Twitter in the College Classroom

Take a look at Piazza to host course related Q/A sessions. Thinking about follow up after guest skype interviews. Carol H

So- do you think we still can actively listen to our students on line?

This site has information about online Communication Conferences

Blog about UW Bothel Learning Technologies

You can lead a student to knowledge, according to an old academic saying, but you can't make him or her think. I recently wrote about the possibility of testing and certification for what I called a "college-level GED."

Tips on making e-books for online learning.

What a great way to customize the reading assignments and resources for students in our online courses. This seems like it could also save money on textbook costs for our students.

This is a great new app for the iPad. It costs only 99 cents. It alllows you to use a stylus to take notes, linked audio recordings, PDF annotations, Advanced Word-Processing, inserting photos or drawings, and more.