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Effective Practice in a Digital Age is designed for those in further and higher education whose focus is on designing and supporting learning: academic staff, lecturers, tutors and learning support staff, facilitators, learning technologists and staff developers, and others with an interest in enhancing the quality of learning and teaching, and a curiosity about how technology can assist them.

"After piloting a digital textbook rental program in fall 2010, the California State University system learned a few lessons about how the e-books worked for students."

27 video primers by C.J. Bonk on e-teaching and learning topics such as planning online courses, managing online courses, etc.

Ambitious plan @UniofAdelaide to replace large lectures with small group teaching, in part enabled by e-learning http://t.co/DozwtBQj01

Ambitious plan @UniofAdelaide to replace large lectures with small group teaching, in part enabled by e-learning http://t.co/DozwtBQj01

e-design template

"he power of storytelling as a pedagogical tool has been recognized from time immemorial, and, in recent times, for e-learning as well (Neal, 2001)."

"...this is the first time e-learning has been used in the UK higher education sector to develop study skills for pre-entry learners."

Short piece (with links to others) on podcasting style / technique

Article on the 21C Learning inquiry (NZ). Comments by Niki Davis & Derek Wenmoth

" links to free on-line services that allow you to provide your students with enhanced learning opportunities which you can then embed into, or link from, your school/college/university's website, course blog or VLE/MLE."

"The conference is part of the Re-engineering Assessment Practices (REAP) project, a £1m initiative funded by the Scottish Funding Council under its e-Learning Transformation initiative. REAP is a collaboration across the University of Strathclyde, University of Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian University. REAP is evaluating the impact of new assessment practices supported by technology at course, faculty and institutional level.Conference themes: Focusing on assessment FOR learning in tertiary education the conference has three themes to be addressed through keynotes, case studies and structured discussions.Assessment and the first year experienceGreat designs for assessmentInstitutional strategies (designs) for assessment"

"The aim of the Online Snacks initiative is to provide teachers with the opportunity to develop e-learning skills aligned to their teaching and learning needs. All sessions are FREE and are facilitated by a Digi Advisor" Developed in NZ for teachers.

Another chronic article in the Chronicle but at least most of the comments tear it apart right from the start. How we can't learn because we don't use paper texts any more. Like ...?

Retrospective analysis of existing curriculum according to an activity taxonomy

The purpose of this e-book is to explore the use of mobile devices in learning in higher education, and to provide examples of good pedagogy. We are sure that the rich variety of examples of mobile learning found in this book will provide the reader with the inspiration to teach their own subjects and courses in ways that employ mobile devices in authentic and creative ways. This book is made up of a collection of double blind peer-reviewed chapters written by participants in the project New technologies, new pedagogies: Using mobile technologies to develop new ways of teaching and learning.

Report on the findings of a trial at 3 unis of students using e-book readers. Main comment are that they are ok but rubbish for taking notes in the flexible way we do with paper.

Australian eLearning Framework stuff on benchmarking.