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Discusses 'learning measurement'. It includes a Course Review Template aimed at measuring how performance focussed the course is. Also, his link to a previous article (The Five failures) is worth a read.

Course Builder is Google's experimental first step in the world of online education.

Free online course.... 56,000 registered already!

""Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum". The course will run from 10th January to 13th March 2013."

April 3-4 2013: ...we will engage the teaching and learning community in exploring this new online course model. Tour institutional examples of MOOCs, various instructional designs and delivery models, processes, methodologies for setting up and evaluating the model, and implications for teaching and learning.

Excellent exa,mple of game theory, or indeed problem based learning in a university course.

The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture and homework elements of a course are reversed.

"The series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation." The ten innovations are: Assessment for learning Badges to accredit learning Learning analytics MOOCs New pedagogy for e-books Personal inquiry learning Publisher led mini-courses Rebirth of academic publishing Rhizomatic learning Seamless learning

A good summary of iPad apps categorised according to these learning objectives: 1. I want my students to record and edit video on the iPad. 2. I want my students to record and / or edit audio on the iPad. 3. I want my students to read class content on the iPad. 4. I want my students to annotate course readings on the iPad 5. I want my students to be able to use audio books on the iPad. 6. I want my students to use the iPad as a digitial notebook / note-taking device. 7. I want my students to use their iPads to create screencasts to share and demonstrate their understanding. 8. I want my students to create presentations on the iPad. 9. I want my students to create digital stories on the iPad. 10. I want my students to be able to study with the iPad. 11. I want to use the iPad as a student response system. 12. I want my students to create written content on the iPad. 13. I want my students to blog on the iPad. 14. I want my students to create ePubs / iBooks to read on the iPad.

Use this form, or your modification of it, to evaluate your e-learning course. Such an evaluation could be completed by all learners on completion of the course, or by a representative selection of learners. You can download this form as an RTF file.

...a new open source platform that will give individual educators and universities the ability to create MOOCs of their own

Become a Graphic Facilitator - this is the course that Sharon Altena attended.

The E-Primer series: #1 - E-learning in context - An introduction to e-learning and the international experience; definitions of terms; a theory for e-learning; technologies; benefits #2 - E-education and faculty - Education theory and e-learning; the changing role of faculty; workload issues; quality #3 - Designing for e-learning - Instructional design; learning objects; constructing a hybrid course #4 - Online discourse - Synchronous and asynchronous communications; designing online discourse; online facilitation. #5 - Extending e-possibilities - Web 2.0; ePortfolios; virtual worlds; lifelong learning, etc A blog updating various elements of the E-Primers is being kept at http://e-ako.blogspot.com/

...equipping students for the learning and assessing they will need to do after completing their course and the challenges they will face after graduation.

Some interesting options for online presentations. (One of them, of course, is Prezi.)

7 checklists to consider when building or before releasing a elearning course. Some questions are bleeding obvious, but others are quite deep.

The aim of Digital Learning Technologies is to provide the students with knowledge and practical experience in the digital technologies in the educational and training environment. This course will: Investigate technological developments influencing education and training; Investigate Online Pedagogy and Tools; Examine Digital Literacy and Networking Technologies; Analyse Social and Ethical Issues.