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To remain fresh and relevant, online courses need to be continually revised and improved. Considerations of relevant laws and institutional policies should be a core focus of every curriculum redesign. Redesigning an online curriculum presents rich opportunities to integrate the latest thinking in given disciplines and to incorporate new methodologies for teaching and learning. New, emerging, and evolving technologies can greatly enhance work to update the curriculum of an online course.

Edited by Terry Anderson and Fathi Elloumi, is concerned with assisting providers of online education with useful tools to carry out the teaching and learning transactions online.

"In this model, the online content is generally " wrapped" with some face-to-face class time by a local instructor, who can facilitate discussion, answer questions, ensure that students are making progress, and possibly augment the course with additional content and/or assessments."

2012 Alberta-British Columbia Managing Online Learning Survey Report (PDF)

The Office of Open Learning seeks to work in partnership with colleagues across the University in all Faculties, the Centre for Teaching and Learning, the Library, Information Technology Services, and other appropriate units to develop opportunities for students to engage in high quality open and online learning.

Contact North ǀ Contact Nord, Ontario's Distance Education and Training Network, works in partnership with Ontario's 24 public colleges, 20 public universities and over 250 public essential skills and training providers to increase and improve online and distance learning opportunities for Ontarians.

Not a perfect summary, but regardless great online resource! This book should be in your teaching library!

Learning is a central focus of the Athabasca University e-Lab.  Discover many digital research tools and online resources in the e-Lab.

This paper provides a brief review of blended learning as a didactic method, and discusses the issues and challenges of using blended learning models in post-secondary education. Blended learning refers to mixed modes of instruction that combine traditional face-to-face classroom teaching methods and online learning materials. The paper will address challenges faced by large classrooms with a diverse student body, and the ways blended learning models can help alleviate those concerns (i.e. technologically savvy students, the need for course scheduling flexibility). In addition, a case study of blended learning in higher education in the context of a unique first year Introductory Psychology program at McMaster University will be discussed. Lastly, the important learning benefits offered by blended learning systems, along with the potential barriers to their implementation will be addressed.

As we continue to discuss important issues such as access, affordability, and personalized learning in higher education, we would be helped by having a richer understanding of the changes that are already occurring. I would like to offer a more descriptive view to capture the growing number of approaches enabled by educational technology. The following is certainly not exhaustive, since the field is rapidly changing. In addition, not all of these models will end up thriving in the long term. My intention is simply to describe some of the primary models and ideally to reduce some of the confusion evident in public discussions.

online radio programme offers insight and inspiration by revealing how universities and colleges, with the help of digital technologies, are addressing key challenges in teaching, learning and course management.

Faculty Cyber Connections - Online Module Design Workbook

By: Terry Anderson

iPeer is an open source web application application that allows instructors to develop and deliver ​rubric-based peer evaluations, to review and release student comments, to build progress report forms online, and to analyze evaluation results. iPeer features a built-in user management system, data import/export, and an easy-to-use installer.

"How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the Literature"

Video series addressing topics in online, distributed learning from Indiana University.

"Every minute, three hundred new learners are born into this world. How can TED play a role in enriching the education of these individuals? How can TED enrich the education of the billions of learners around the globe? We need your help to answer these questions. In a few weeks, TED will be launching an online forum. We're calling it the TED-ED Brain Trust. We're seeking the expertise of visionary educators, students, organizations, filmmakers & other creative professionals to guide, galvanize & ultimately lead this exciting new initiative. To express your interest in joining the TED-ED Brain Trust, please click the button above to fill out the short form. To invite capable colleagues, please share this page. We will notify you when we launch the Trust."

Colleges and universities have no reason to view OER as a threat. On the contrary, OER can help institutions provide higher education to rapidly increasing numbers of students and lifelong learners. Traditional colleges and universities, with their experience and reputation, are in a good position to further develop online teaching, testing, learning communities, and certification. Those that produce high-quality knowledge, teaching, and students have little to fear, and much to gain, from Open Educational Resources.

"a community of advanced network users, developers, visionaries and champions, together with an online space where they can share information and discuss issues impacting the community. Through this blog, we hope to enhance the visibility of Canada's advanced network alliance and the uses and benefits of advanced networks in the research, education and innovation communities."