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Many of the decisions affecting the success of a course take place well before the first day of class. Careful planning at the course design stage not only makes teaching easier and more enjoyable, it also facilitates student learning. Once your course is planned, teaching involves implementing your course design on a day-to-day level.

You can inspire students to learn with simple demonstrations of your own curiosity

Siemens synthesizes some MOOC conversation over the last few weeks and describes the role of MOOCs in education.

Are the current formal programs providing the skills and knowledge needed in the 21st century, and indeed to participate meaningfully in MOOCs and other forms of digital self-learning? And can they learn from MOOCs and how they operate?

Create a short video that explains the benefits and promise of Open Educational Resources for teachers, students and schools everywhere.

voicEd.ca is an attempt to create a place where some of that conversation can take place. Gathering around a commitment to quality education and schooling, voicEd.ca is being imagined as a multi-author  virtual space where participants-parents, students, teachers, administrators, policy-makers, community-members-can express their deepest hopes and dreams for Canadian education, speak openly about issues and concerns and work to craft a common vision of our national learning systems as we move further into the 21st century.

The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching

Critical Commons is a non-profit advocacy coalition that supports the use of media for scholarship, research and teaching, providing resources, information and tools for scholars, students, educators and creators. Critical Commons also functions as a showcase for innovative forms of electronic scholarship and creative production that are transformative, culturally enriching and both legally and ethically defensible.

Ben Cowie blogs about his experiences as a scientist, teacher, learner and human being.

This article describes a framework for evolving innovations to ensure effective local adaptation and shows how this framework helped to scale up three promising practices in teacher professional development.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries Share   Print

Does the adoption of plagiarism-detection software in higher education reduce plagiarism?

A two-year ethnographic study of the student research process.

An interactive model taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing (Flash-based)