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""I was standing in line in a coffee shop on campus, and noticed that many people these days are using smartphones," says Kayvon Beykpour, vice-president of Blackboard Mobile. "Students are doing all kinds of things with them: they're on Facebook, checking email, making phone calls. People were doing just about everything except interacting with the university, which we thought was a bit of a disconnect. There's so many things that, as a student, you need to do every day, whether it's registering for a course, or finding your way around campus, or checking the directory or athletics scores-and they're all traditionally different places. Why not create a really sophisticated, really elegant, and really beautiful app that brings all those different services together in one place, and makes it really usable for the student, for the faculty, for the tourist? And that's what our platform does.""

Blackboard9 pdf files for "getting started", "course content", "creating assignments", "building a test", Plus a series of How To Videos

"Blackboard Connector automatically synchronizes courses, students and Instructors between Blackboard and Perception. Additions and changes made in Blackboard are copied to Perception, but the synchronization is one-way"

Open source course scheduling system built entirely on App Engine and integrated to Google Calendar

Moodle site that explains some of the Web 2.0 tools and their applications in teaching and learning. Aimed at school teachers but a nice summary of some of the tools out there.

scroll down the long page to find best practice guidelines

New folder view format in development for Moodle 2.1

An overview of instructional design principles that may be used to guide beginning instructors in the creation of online learning courses and materials that support learner engagement and knowledge construction.

"The Quality Matters Rubric is a set of 8 general standards and 41 specific standards used to evaluate the design of online and blended courses. The Rubric is complete with annotations that explain the application of the standards and the relationship among them. A scoring system and set of online tools facilitate the evaluation by a team of reviewers."

Second Nature Excellence is pleased to announce the launch of its UK division, Second Nature Excellence (UK) Limited. This new division will deliver the full range of Natural Excellence courses, including Natural Projects, Natural Sales and Natural Quality, into the UK including the Irish market.

Course Design Intensives workshop wiki containing links to all their workshop materials

questions to ask academics setting up online courses