Michael M. Grant's Viral Notebook

Contrast is key part of your course design, In fact, it's one of the foundational principles in visual design. CARP - contrast, alignment, repetition and proximity.

Lee Freeman, who administers the online MBA program at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, decided it was time to answer those questions and maybe challenge a few misapprehensions about time in online teaching. He surveyed instructors in all different sc

In this candid and eye-opening interview, Philip Hutchison, a household name in SCORM and the man behind Pipwerks, gives his thoughts about the current state of SCORM and e-learning in general, touching on subjects such as how he became one of the go-to S

As part of the BBC's SuperPower season, exploring the power of the internet, BBC News explores how the web works.

# Truly disruptive tools will force new thinking and new approaches to ensuring student learning in higher education. # Technology enables online learning, which potentially qualifies as a disruptive innovation in education.

A few weeks ago we published a tutorial How to Design a Blue Marketing Company Layout in Photoshop. Our friends at SnobbySlice have taken that design, coded it, and made it available for free download. The template includes the homepage design that was cr

Some years back The Teaching Professor featured an article highlighting Mano Singham's wonderful piece describing how he moved away from a very authoritarian, rule-centered syllabus (reference below). It's one of my very favorite articles-I reference it r

So many articles explain how to design interfaces, design graphics and deal with clients. But one step in the Web development process is often skipped over or...

The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book lists over 100 projects with objectives, defined grade level or age range, links to additional information (including how-to's) about the project, and tips for teachers planning to use the project.

Download and listen to over 20,000 albums, legally. Use BitTorrent or download directly to discover and share new artists. All content is Creative Commons or "Art Libre" licensed.

In February 2010 Fred Wilson, a New York based tech investor, spoke at the annual Future of Web Apps Miami conference. His talk, clocking in at just under

Although central to the business of higher education, the LMS has also become a symbol of the status quo that supports administrative functions more effectively than teaching and learning activities.

Everyone has a slightly different approach to CSS. That's part of the reason it can be a nightmare to edit someone else's code. But there are a few good practices you can use in your CSS to make your stylesheets easier for you to read, and easier for anyo

An image's dimensions on screen are measured in pixels: width and height. An image's quality is determined by less tangible factors: composition, mood,

The space station's near misses with debris are a continual issue, which provides excellent resources for scientific project and problem based learning in science.

The web has hundreds of periodic tables and dozens of collections of periodic tables -- but it never had a periodic table of periodic tables. Until now. Researched in profound and excruciating detail over the course of a couple nights on Google, we presen

Web users spend 69% of their time viewing the left half of the page and 30% viewing the right half. A conventional layout is thus more likely to make sites profitable.

Estimates are about 80 percent of Math Education at the K-12 level is strictly focused on solving math problems without any real-world context (Computational Thinking and Math Maturity: Improving Math Education in K-8 Schools, Dave Moursund, 2007). Studen

The menu in any e-learning course or learning site is a little glimpse into the minds of the design team. Were they thinking about the learner, or were their heads elsewhere when it came to designing the menu? Here are a few pointers to make sure your me

Yesterday, I shared some of the biggest challenges of virtual teams. And there were plenty! Today, based on my virtual