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Not wholly about elearing but had some neat animations which presented the idea of cloud learning, which this company claims is more efficent than standard elearning.

Some useful summaries of learning theories, including some we've not looked at. 

Includes a discussion about the term 'social learning' and various links. This is the 7th post on the theme - others are linked to at the bottom of the page; probably it won't be the last! 

Most of this covers Paget Gorman - a sign language specifically developed for use with people with learning difficulties (now largely supplanted by Makaton), but including it here as it's got some interesting learning bits within it. 

Useful research looking at the presence/absence of a 'course map' (i.e site map) - but see also http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=56801 

more thoughts on learning styles.

Freely available book with ideas for using games in learning.

Good discussion against the over-use (or even use at all!) of learning styles.

The sounds not great on this video but Richard Culatta makes his point well. Online learning should be fun. Avoid content dump.

See the various case studies. - they're using WP, though not CampusPress.

Overview of the current debate surrounding 'learning styles' - and how useful they are (or not!) 

More suggestions for learning design - make sure you look at the speaker notes on each slide - they have more information. 

Notes from Warwick University for academic staff about how to find online learning resources

Only has a few languages at present, but looks like an interesting model for language learning. 

Special issue of Nature / Sci Am looking at digital learning.

A review of papers on e-learning in the workplace 2000 - 2012. While this isn't quite an example of an annotated bibliography, it's got some useful material in that it covers a range of different papers, and demonstrates how they have extracted key information that all have in common. Use it as an example of the use of reviewing many papers, and the strategies they used to analyse the papers, which you might want to think about a simplified version of their approach yourself for your group work.

Has several questionnaires, but you'll have to work out the styles for yourself! Also in cludes modifications for younger users and in various languages.

Keynote given by Stephen Downes about Connectivism & Personal Learning.