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"The purpose of this team-led course is to help you build and improve your skill in online teaching. Basic strategies for sharing your expertise, facilitating deep discussion, and designing experiential assessments will be covered. Both small and large-scale teaching models will be presented - including MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses. This course will be of particular benefit to adult educators with some classroom teaching experience. Whether you are a corporate training and development facilitator, community educator, or a higher education faculty member, this introduction to teaching online will be an opportunity to explore the possibilities of open education, and network with a diverse, global community of practitioners."

The conference organisers welcome 500-800 word abstracts for full research papers. Submissions for other types of presentation, such as workshops, symposia, demonstration, installations are also encouraged

This post is more about this very unorthodox software company that is rebelling against many conventions, than merely being a career guidance. It is also partly about a boy named Saran Babu who is a flagship developer at Zoho. The connection between the t

Community Maps. It provides access to maps generated from data sourced from a range of social and technical data providers. Data providers include: Experian, Point Topic, the University of Essex, Connection Services Ltd, UK online centres, University Coll

Once upon a time there lived a vain Emperor whose only worry in life was to impress his subjects with the extraordinary quality of his business presentations. He developed new slide shows almost every day and loved to show them off to his people

"We welcome all proposals, suggestions and ideas for the conference programme related to the main conference themes at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2011. You are invited to submit proposals:"

There have been many attempts to define the generation of students who emerged with the Web and new digital technologies in the early 1990s. The term "digital native" refers to the generation born after 1980, which has grown up in a world where digital te

It can seem expensive, but even simple innovations can have a big impact on your institution, students and working life, argues JISC's Professor David Baker

Making Assessment Count eReflect site

An internet catalogue for students, teachers, administrators & parents on Augmented Reality

KTN final report on the future of digital content sets out a series of provocative and exciting ideas that will help creative businesses and technology developers understand the radical transformation that developments in digital technology will have on c

This paper describes and analyses the motivations for OER projects, the design decisions they took in implementing their repositories, the approaches they took to change agency and practice within their communities, and the changes in practice that have s

The Open University is claiming a world record for the number of iTunes downloads - as the first to reach 20 million.

Bibliography from the University of Greenwich SEEL project report

Here's one for all you lovers of futuristic interfaces. An interactive hardware company called Displax has begun marketing Skin, a paper-thin, flexible film that would transform any non-metal surface into an interactive touchscreen.

You don't need to be a professional audio engineer to record narration. However, you do want to pay attention to what you're doing and do the best job possible

JISC is funding a landscape study on the UK HE sector use of content, communication and social networking services developed by commercial companies

How many people who aren't that into technology might feel?