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Wiggins, Grant and Jay McTighe. "What is Backward Design?," in Understanding by Design. 1st edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall, 2001, pp. 7-19. Copyright: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development 1998 Backward design, or designing with the end in mind, is explored in this first chapter of the book "Understanding by Design". It outlines how we as instructors can rethink how we deliver instruction, by first identifying what the desired results are, determining what evidence we will accept that illustrates these results and then plan learning experiences and instruction to achieve those results. This design process may help filter which features you may choose to use in a LMS or non-LMS.

Reference: Freeman, W. & Tremblay, T. (2013). Design Considerations for Supporting the Reluctant Adoption of Blended Learning. MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 9(1), 80-88. This paper presents a case study where an online course was redesigned as a blended course without involving instructor participation. It examines how the instructors struggled with this new format and offers suggestions to course designers on how to successfully design and implement blended programs.

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Susan Oxnevads Blog has some great tools and she provides oodles of well-organized details on the tools she recommends. In this case she is recommending Flubaroo. A terrific script that a I have used to make Google Forms into a self-grading quiz or test. Not as robust as other tools designed as quizzing tools (Quizstar...), but it works. The only issue I came across was a difficulty in setting up the automated email back to the student with their results. Other than that it works peachilly. Avi

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The Community of Inquiry Framework is a powerful tool for helping to design and organize online learning environments. The Webinar series are great learning activities for professionals engaged in online education.

Some basic advice from a middle school science teacher who uses 3D printing to help students learn design and produce 3D objects in a grade 7 classroom.