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It's Open Education Week! Open educational resources are vital to affordable education in all mediums but especially for online learning.

This is paper written back in 2007 about PLNs. The author argues that PLN are the future of elearning because of the power they have to offer individualized learning and give the learner the opportunity to organize his/her own learning. That educational institutions cannot expect to simply recreate the same forms of learning used in tradition education online. rather that we must learn to adapt to the new and emerging technologies of ubiquitous computing and social software. Considering that this article was written 9 years ago, I found it to be extremely accurate and representative of PLNs today.

Some ideas for using personal learning networks for personalized learning.

Trends shaping the 2019-2020 academic year in online education.

One stop shop for any online resource you may need. Richard Byrne has tried and reviewed just about any online resource available online for education that you can think of.

This article examines the potential of synchronous communication in online education by analyzing the newest tools and platforms that facilitate real-time group communication, and the pedagogy associated with implementing synchronous communication tools into asynchronous learning environments.

!4 Educational Apps to Teach Kids Coding! Great set of resources!

Katie Martin wrote a great article about the pandemic turning educators into "beginners as the usual way of doing things is no longer an option," and we should take the opportunity to look at education in a new way.

Online learning is growing. How do online classrooms differ from the face to face classroom? What about the student/teacher relationship? Jade Ballek is a principal of an online K12 school in Canada. She tells all: the challenges of online learning and the strengths. Sylvia Duckworth made a sketchnote to go with this show!

Today's student generation is mobile, online and Internet-savvy. They are all computer gurus, and they often engage better with their electronics than they do with paper and pencil. As the saying goes, when you can't beat 'em, join 'em: charge into the information age as a 21 st century teacher.

Huge list of sites and apps that foster collaboration. Tools are divided by grade level and a section for special education is included.

Edudemic offers great information on education and technology. You can subscribe to their Online Learning news feed to get recent news and articles on the topic

Great commentary on all aspects of online teaching, from the teaching perspective, in higher education.

Best practices in designing for all users.

Some useful tips on setting tone in the online classroom discussion forum. I thought the term "uglies" found in #4 funny but true and liked the tip in #9.

Excellent paper describing the Productive Online Discussion Model and the limitations of threaded discussions

Here's an article that discusses the importance of instructor engagement in discussion forums as well as the importance of focusing on quality over quantity.

This article helps me crystalize how I want to engage in DB with my students. Thank you for sharing, Dr. Saba!

A TED talk with excellent background information about the development of Massive Open Online Courses. This Stanford professor shares the powerful lessons learned about course design and how MOOC's are moving education from being driven by hypothesis to data driven.