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MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called "MITx." MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pacefeature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communicationallow for the individual assessment of any student's work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITxoperate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions.

As we sidle into 2012, the same old questions will greet us. They're about a world that's rapidly changing and about our ability or inability to change with it. Let's face it. The cat's out of the bag, but some of us are still trying to lure it back in.

like this site based in the UK has good ideas and ways of engaging people in relationship education

iGoogle acts as an RSS feed reader - and you can also add in some fun and useful gadgets. It comes free with a Google account. Useful for tracking activity of multiple web sites and skimming headlines. Can create multiple dashboards (tabs) for specific topics).

5th annual survey of learning tools for 2011 - Moodle is in the top 10.