For online and distance education, there are many pedagogical questions and debates that arise. Is the pedagogy of classroom learning the same as distance? If not, how are they different? What are the extent of the differences? We hope to use this area as a collection/repository area of the various thoughts on the subject, as found on the web.
If you have suggestions or feedback on existing ones, please send us an email to oll1@usouthal.edu.
Corporate Learning Blogger, Strategist, Consultant exploring the crossroads of Technology and Learning.
http://elearndev.blogspot.com/index.html
"A collection of thoughts, ideas and information that I find intintriguing for myself about elearning tools & techonology and hopefully intersting & informative for others."--Tracy Hamilton, Education Assistant
http://discovery-thru-elearning.blogspot.com/
Get your daily fix of the latest news and commentary, insight and advice about online education, careers, technology and learning, and more from the eLearners News Blog.
http://community.elearners.com/blogs/elearnersnews/default.aspx
ramblings, experiences and random thoughts about e-Learning, distance education and other remotely related semi-work related stuff by Eric A. Tremblay, M.Ed, Senior Instructional Designer, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario.
http://erictremblay.blogspot.com/
Blog of Dennis O'Connor, a 32 year veteran teacher. O'Conner has been teaching and learning online since the mid 80's and can also be found at wiredinstructor.net.
http://doconnor.edublogs.org/
Observations, opinions and questions regarding my corporate online learning work and study.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/rlubensky/elearningmoments.html
What Michael Feldstein is Learning about Online Learning...Online
http://mfeldstein.com/
Blog of Christy Tucker, an instructional designer for Performance Learning Systems.
http://christytucker.wordpress.com/
A place to capture and share ideas and links about online interaction, community, distance learning, distributed CoPs from Full Circle Associates
http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/onfacblog.htm
Go Inside e-Learning with Susan Smith Nash, author of "Leadership and the e-Learning Organization." Get an insider's look at online education by an associate dean for liberal arts at a well-known online university.
http://community.elearners.com/blogs/inside_elearning/default.aspx
A daily item of e-learning interest selected by Jane Hart
http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/
Covering research, news, and trends in instructional technology and e-Learning. Connecting the Indian e-Learning industry to the rest of the training and development world.
http://elearning.typepad.com/thelearnedman/
Learning Circuits Blog is affiliated with Learning Circuits Online Magazine, an ASTD publication.
http://learningcircuits.blogspot.com/
Resources for handheld computing in education by Tony Vincent
http://learninginhand.com/blog/index.html
"Musings on e-Learning, instructional design, rapid e-Learning, Templates, the brain and other learning tidbits. As seen from the vendor side of the e-Learning aisle...."
http://learningvisions.blogspot.com/
Education for the iPod generation.
http://mlearningworld.blogspot.com/
An Online Reflective Journal on Mobile Learning Practice
http://mlearning.edublogs.org/
Best practices, techniques, and trends in online training development and e-learning instructional design
http://boggse-learningchronicle.typepad.com/the_online_training_conte/
Writing instructor Scott Warnock's efforts to develop and teach online writing courses at Drexel University, an endeavor that began in 2004.
http://onlinewritingteacher.blogspot.com/
"Our Mission--Times are changing in higher education, and with distance learning and online degrees growing so rapidly, more information is needed. The Online Universities Weblog will help bridge the gap between then and now, helping both students and teachers make the online learning experience as enjoyable and beneficial as possible, while keeping in touch with the latest news and developments in the industry."
http://www.onlineuniversities-weblog.com/
Investigating the Impact of Virtual Worlds on Learning Spaces
http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/virtualworlds/
What effect does podcasting have on student learning in higher education.
http://schastain.blogspot.com/index.html
"The blog about Research on Second Life. - A compilation of information, news and research"
http://secondliferesearch.blogspot.com/
"The Saskatoon Catholic School System has been a frontier in the development of education in the cyber world.
In the past, various teachers in the division have created subject curriculums online and ultimately taught these subjects as accredited courses. Having the opportunity to learn online as part of the Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School has been very beneficial to the 3400 students who have taken courses in the past 4 years.
The Cyber School has recently launched its first set of elementary lessons and resources based on technology for grades 4 & 5 as well as math resources for grades 7 and 8. These resources have been widely accepted throughout the school division and being used by over 500 students.
Cyber School has further advanced its contributions to the education system by developing and launching "Online Teacher Learning Communities”. These 'Learning Communities' serve as a collection of useful resources for grade levels from kindergarten to grade 12 and encompass all subjects; from Physical Education to Aboriginal/First Nations Education. The resources are for both online uses as well as printable copies for classroom use."
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/vschools/
Using Tablet PCs and Ultra-Mobile PCs to advance individual learning
http://tabletpceducation.blogspot.com/index.html
InSync's team had lots of extraneous thoughts (we call them moments of brilliance, but we know we are biased!) about synchronous learning and needed an outlet for them. Want to help? Send an email to info@insynctraining.com if you want to contribute.
http://liveonlinelearning.blogspot.com/index.html
This is the blog of Dr. Curt Bonk, Professor of Indiana University and President of SurveyShare, Inc.
http://travelinedman.blogspot.com/
http://www.virtuallearningworlds.com/
dedicated to 'designer elearning' - visual design for multimedia and web-based learning environments
http://designerelearning.blogspot.com/index.html
The technological revolution has brought networked computing to training and education. This revolution has the potential to democratize learning and training. Distance-Educator.com has been involved in this revolution from the beginning and this is the place to start your search for any and everything related to distance education and elearning. If there is a quality resource, news item, or issue to address we point to it, provide the news or do the research to bring you the best information available.
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/
"eLearn Magazine is published by ACM, a not-for-profit educational association serving those who work, teach, and learn in the various computing-related fields. Founded in 1947 as the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM's stated mission is to advance the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology. It is the oldest and most respected organization of its kind. eLearn is ACM's first Web-only publication. It will build on ACM's reputation by serving as the most accurate and unbiased source for news, information, and opinion on the now-flourishing field of online education and training. It also offers a community hub for e-learning professionals on the Web, providing a wealth of public forums for the free exchange of ideas."
http://www.elearnmag.org/
E-Learning Concepts and Techniques is a collaborative e-book project by Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania's Department of Instructional Technology students and guest authors. It was a project-based assignment for the online class, E-Learning Concepts and Techniques Spring 2006 and is dedicated in memory of Justin Bennett (1989-2006). It is also dedicated to those who love to learn as well as to those who inspire that love in others.
http://iit.bloomu.edu/Spring2006_eBook_files/index.htm
The eLearning Guild is a Community of Practice for e-Learning design, development, and management professionals. The Guild offers members high-quality learning opportunities, networking services, resources, and publications. Members represent a diverse group of managers, directors, and executives focused on training and learning services, as well as e-Learning instructional designers, content developers, web developers, project managers, contractors, and consultants. Guild members work in a variety of settings including corporate, government, and academic organizations. All members share a common interest in e-Learning design, development, and management (elearningguild.com).
http://www.elearningguild.com/
Educating Everyone is a non-profit foundation managed under the direction of the United States Distance Learning Association (www.usdla.org) that provides direct broadcast educational programs for the Pre K-12, Higher Education, Teacher Professional Development and General Public constituencies. Program offerings include foreign language instruction, teacher training, and other general information using digital satellite transmission technology on a 24 x 7 schedule.
http://www.usdla.org/
Founded in 2002, Blended Edu provides educational technology resources and advice for teachers, students, and others interested in the convergence of social media, Gen Y, online community, and learning.
http://blendededu.com/index.html
Learning, Media and Technology - incorporating Education, Communication & Information - is an international, peer-reviewed journal that aims to stimulate debate on the interaction of innovations in educational theory and practices, with media and educational technologies. Media and technologies are interpreted in the broadest sense, to encompass digital broadcasting, the internet and online resources, and other new and emerging formats, as well as the traditional media of print, broadcast television and radio.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17439884.asp
Series of articles by Ken Freed on deep literacy and distance learning through interactive media.
http://www.media-visions.com/education.html
by Alice Mitchell and Carol Savill-Smith
This is actually a pdf version of a book--very useful for those interested in designing or using video games for learning purposes
http://www.lsda.org.uk/files/PDF/1529.pdf
AACE's site to plan their annual ED-MEDIA conference. Includes calls for proposals, lists of former speakers as well as some of the former presentations.
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/default.htm
Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO) is a database of video, DVD, audio CD and CD-ROM reviews of materials from major educational and documentary distributors and independent filmmakers. The reviews are written by librarians and teaching faculty in institutions across the United States and Canada.
http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/emro/search.asp
The world's most comprehensive audiovisual database for over 35 years and a crucial reference tool for librarians, media specialists, training directors, faculty, teachers and researchers.
http://www.nicem.com/
Since 1978, Women's Educational Media has produced and distributed films and educational resources on issues ranging from environmental concerns to affordable housing to preventing prejudice. Working closely with educators, activists, national and local organizations, we ensure that our films are used to inspire meaningful social change.
http://www.womedia.org/
Quotes on General Principles of Multimedia for learning from Alessi, Stephen and Trollip, Stanley. (2001) Multimedia for Learning; Methods and Development. Third Edition. Pearson Education. USA.
http://quotes.internetl.net/?p=96
This blog is just getting started, but it already has a couple of good podcast interviews with professors of educational psychology.
http://epsyattexastech.blogspot.com/
Contains some nice overviews of various psych theories.
http://the-shrinks.blogspot.com/
EdPsy.co.uk was created in November 2006 to offer a useful FREE online resource for those who are...
Attempting to obtain a place on a professional training course in Educational Psychology.
Currently on such a course and working toward becoming qualified.
Have recently completed their formal studies and are currently practicing Educational Psychology.
The site is still very much in its infancy, indeed, at the moment it mainly consists only of a FORUM, (to which I hope you shall contribute!) but It is envisaged that EdPsy shall slowly grow into a truly useful resource for those working within the field of Educational Psychology.
http://www.edpsy.co.uk/
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/res.cgi/Educational_Technology
First Monday was one of the first peer reviewed open-access journals on the internet--about the internet. While not "typically" associated with education, its goal is to better understand the internet's impact on society, so it does sometimes feature stories on education and technology--for example, the August 2007 article "Beyond Google: How Do Students Conduct Academic Research?"
http://www.firstmonday.org/
Providing Educational Technology News To Educators Since 1997
http://www.technology4teachers.com/
by Alice Mitchell and Carol Savill-Smith
This is actually a pdf version of a book--very useful for those interested in designing or using video games for learning purposes
http://www.lsda.org.uk/files/PDF/1529.pdf
http://hagar.up.ac.za/catts/learner/m1g1/whointro.html
http://library.educationworld.net/articles5.html
While AVI CHAI is specifically run and geared towards Judaic Education, the tips and articles featured in this blog are helpful for EdTech-ers of many fields and subjects.
http://edtechexp.blogspot.com/
A bi-weekly digest of news and items of interest to educators and instructional technology developers, published on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month. This NewsWire highlights trends and make connections between research, products, technologies, initiatives, and practices that will advance the effective use of technology in K-12 education (billnewswire).
http://billsnewswire.blogspot.com/
Learning Technology Development @ Edge Hill University
http://ltd-edgehill.blogspot.com/
Thinking and writing about ed tech
http://drctedd.wordpress.com/
Educational Technology, VLEs, open content, e-learning, plus some personal stuff thrown in, by Martin Weller, a Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University in the UK.
http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/
"Where educational technologists come to think!"
http://edtechnot.blogspot.com/index.html
News, Techniques and Theories of Effective Use of Technology in Education--Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield
http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/blogger.html
teaching, learning and change
http://www.whitemountaintech.net/wordpress/
Flash For Learning is an open (as in source) journal for developers and designers of educational technology who are using Macromedia Flash and related technologies. The blog is authored and maintained by Aaron Silvers with less-than-occasional guest contributors
http://flashforlearning.com/
"Check out the weblog every day and keep up-to-date on the latest news and information about flexible, netbased learning and teaching, e-learning, blended learning, distance learning and m-learning. Links to the best web pages on the internet, articles etc. and conferences and seminars about e-learning. Mediation of knowledge and experiences within research and development of the modern digital, interactive media. I hope that you find this service useful and have a good time reading!"
http://scherlund.blogspot.com/
Musings, comments, and sources from an Instructional Technologist at a small community college.
http://janauscc.blogspot.com/index.html
http://techleader.wordpress.com/
Helping elementary & middle school teachers integrate technologies like blogs, podcasts, digital cameras, and more. Also the official blog of the Future of Math website. More and more though, I think I just want to write about education and teaching strategies in general.
http://misterteacher.blogspot.com/
Mind, brain, and emerging technologies - By Andrea Gaggioli, Ph.D
http://gaggio.blogspirit.com/
An educator's thoughts on how we are educating our children.
http://shawnwheeler.blogspot.com/
Instructional technology research, commentary, and links from Trey Martindale.
http://teachable.org/blog/index.php
To call this blog a simple blog isn't quite enough. Computer Science Teacher Lucy Gray has devoted this space to regularly sharing cool gadgets, gizmos and software she's discovered and that she thinks will be useful to fellow educators. It's like LifeHacker for teachers!
http://elemenous.typepad.com/weblog/
A practical guide for integrating technology into the classroom.
http://www.techsavvyed.net/
"Technology should first augment what works well for us. If it doesn’t make your teaching life better, then the technology is irrelevant" (TechKnowledge-E).
http://blog.wku.edu/techknowledg-e/
Blog of Jeff Utecht, a K-12 Ed-Tech Specialist working in Shanghai, China. Site also features a supporting wiki with plenty of good advice and tools for those "technically challenged."
http://www.thethinkingstick.com/
…To support technology users to improve learning and professional development…
http://ebiggs.edublogs.org/
This site lists Web 2.0 websites and webtools have potential for use in the classroom.
http://web20teach.blogspot.com/
"It is our core belief that accessible technologies and the close collaboration of assistive technology (AT) and instructional technology (IT) services at the school district level will enhance and facilitate learning for all students – those with disabilities and those without disabilities. (ATFA)"
http://www.accessibletech4all.org/
"Stewart Mader is Wiki Evangelist for Atlassian Software Systems. He also publishes the blog Using Wiki in Education, which focuses on using the wiki for collaborative curriculum development and group learning, and includes interviews with wiki makers and users, example wiki uses, and product reviews. In October 2006, he published a wikibook containing 10 wide-ranging case studies from teachers using the wiki to transform courses and engage today’s students. This is the first book to focus specifically on the wiki in education and be developed and published using a wiki, so it actively demonstrates the tool in action."
http://www.ikiw.org/
EduTech Wiki is about Educational Technology and related fields. This "place" built at TECFA.
http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Main_Page
Your daily addiction for breaking news, commentary and debate on education reform (EdSpresso).
http://www.edspresso.com/
"The Internet's #1 Source for Education News and Information"
http://www.ednews.org/
News and Opinion (on Education)
http://edwize.org/
http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/
Integrating New Literacies into the Teaching of Writing
http://hickstro.org/
Sharing information and news regarding educational development in Scottish Higher Education along with events and items of interest relating to educational developers worldwide.
http://eddev.blogspot.com/index.html
"This blog is focused on the futures of education in a globalized world, focused on innovative knowledge production and driven by exponential accelerating change."
http://www.educationfutures.com/
Examining education from a social foundations perspective
http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/
Comments from Australia on the mostly parlous state of modern education by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former High School and University teacher. Read THIS before you spend money on education.
http://edwatch.blogspot.com/
A blog with resources for educators and researchers
http://gsed.wordpress.com/
A Blog Exploration of Project-Based Learning (PBL) and Service Learning (SL). We will also explore the relationships between PBL/SL and the Worldwide Community of School Architects/Designers/Planners.
http://guerillaeducators.typepad.com/ge/
An Exploration of Digital and Live Educational Environments
http://highereddesign.wordpress.com/
information on k12education articles and news
http://k12educationhub.blogspot.com/index.html
"The Cable's Leaders in Learning Awards is Cable in the Classroom's annual awards program to recognize administrators, educators, community leaders and policymakers who demonstrate vision, innovation, action and transformation in education. The objective of the awards is to promote and encourage innovative learning practices by honoring individuals who have transformed an aspect of education on a large or small scale."
http://leadersinlearning.blogspot.com/
http://teach-learn-educate.blogspot.com/index.html
Your independent source for news, information, commentary, and discussion of One Laptop Per Child's computer, the OLPC Children's Machine XO, developed by MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte.
http://www.olpcnews.com/
News and updates from the podcast directory for educators, schools and colleges.
http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/weblog/blog.html
Podcasting and Vodcasting Resources from Across the Globe
Edited by Munindra Khaund, Information Technology Services, University of Illinois at Springfield
http://doyoupod.blogspot.com/
"Commentary, analysis, and tips for the communication and presentation aspects of current events, politics and media."
http://powerpresentations.blogs.com/my_weblog/
"Learning is not the end goal. Specific "Performance Competence" is. Generic Competencies are only foundational if they can transfer to another performance context. Research suggests that they usually will not. Formal Performance-based Instruction & Information is needed, where warranted by the risks and rewards, to enable the workflow, either during and/or prior to the workflow performance. For Performance Competence. And ROI."
http://pursuingperformanceblog.blogspot.com/
School Design Research Studio seeks to advance the knowledge of effective physical environments for learning by promoting collaborative design and cooperative research. We promote collaboration in planning, design and management and action research that, engages children, youth, parents, teachers, and surrounding community. We encourage all motivated designers driven to reflective practice to share their in-process, planning and design concepts in the spirit of research hypotheses. We invite all motivated researchers inspired to share their exploratory thinking in an interactive exchange (schoolstudio.typepad.com).
http://schoolstudio.typepad.com/school_design_research_st/
This space will explore issues in public education policy; and it will advocate for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasized testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build.
http://schoolsmatter.blogspot.com/
The Seven Sides of Educational Leadership uses a series of metaphors to capture the complexity of the change process. The over-arching metaphor of the world’s climate captures the complex, inter-connected and multi-sided nature of organizational change.
http://sevensides.typepad.com/seven_sides_of_educationa/
Run by Columbia University's Teacher's College, this community blog's stated goal is to "create a learning community which supports and encourages self-directed, reflective, innovative and transformative teaching and learning practices."
http://tln.tc-library.org/
Just as the name states, this blog is mainly for schools and educators around the state of Virginia. However, many of the references supplied will be of interest to anyone in the educational field.
http://vcol.blogspot.com/
Will Thalheimer's research-based commentary on learning, performance, and the industry thereof.
http://www.willatworklearning.com/
Tapped In is a Web-based environment created by SRI International to transform teacher professional development (TPD) for professional development providers and educators. Tapped In enables providers to offer high-quality online professional development experiences and support to more teachers cost-effectively. Through Tapped In, educators can extend their professional growth beyond courses or workshops with the online tools, resources, colleagues, and support they need to implement effective, classroom-centered learning activities (Tappedin.org).
http://tappedin.org/tappedin/
by Alice Mitchell and Carol Savill-Smith
This is actually a pdf version of a book--very useful for those interested in designing or using video games for learning purposes
http://www.lsda.org.uk/files/PDF/1529.pdf
Kitwiki is a repository-style wiki created and maintained by an IDD graduate student, housing ideas, events, developments and trends related to IDD and those studying in various programs.
www.wiki.kitzzy.com
The design and development of learning environments that ensure learners have the freedom of access and the freedom to choose what, where, when, how to learn, and who to share that learning with - that is the purpose of this blog.
http://choicelearning.blogspot.com/index.html
Blog of the Learning Technologies and Design program at the University of Houston--Victoria.
http://uhvonline.blogspot.com/
Blog of Instructional Media Director/Producer Jason McDonald, "Putting the “truct” into instructional design."
http://www.designedlearning.org/
Blog of Jennifer Maddrell, a graduate student at Indiana University studying in the Instructional Systems Technology department. Maddrell is taking the program "at a distance" so she can practice what she will one day preach. This site is her working journal and personal learning environment related to the loosely joined topics of instructional design, technology and online education.
http://www.designedtoinspire.com/drupal/
An Exploration of Digital and Live Educational Environments
http://highereddesign.wordpress.com/
a place to reflect on professional theory and practice in online course design
http://uofrids.edublogs.org/
Learning Designer Shanta Rohse's site for creative and experimental in writing, communication and learning design.
http://shantarohse.com/
A new website (as of Sept 2007) attempting to bring IDT professionals together to collaborate and share resources.
http://www.instructionaldesigncentral.com/
Social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money...
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/
While this blog/site isn't about open learning, per se, it is related--the author(s) explore open source and other forms of software to decrease costs and the hold of MicroSoft over business, government and education.
http://www.livingwithoutmicrosoft.org/
Researcher Steve Godwin's experience working on OpenLearn, an Open Learning project based at the Open University.
http://openlearn.blogspot.com/
Chronicles how the Open Source movement is revolutionizing education. Written by Steve Carson.
http://oedb.org/blogs/wideopen/
Teaching and Learning Resources from Federal Agencies
http://free.ed.gov/index.cfm
The project will create open content electronic textbooks that will be freely available from a Web site. Distribution will also be possible via paper, CD, or DVD. Our goal initially is to focus on content development and Web distribution, and we will work with relevant authorities to facilitate dissemination by other means when bandwidth is unavailable or inadequate. Thus, while the goal, educating the disadvantaged, is the same as that of the $100 laptop project, we are not tied to a particular device or medium.
http://globaltext.org/
Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program. You can read about successful software products that have these properties, and about our certification mark and program, which allow you to be confident that software really is "Open Source." We also make copies of approved open source licenses here.
http://www.opensource.org/
Wikisource is an online library of free content publications (see the inclusion policy) collected and maintained by the community. See the help pages for information on getting started and the community portal for ways you can help. Feel free to ask questions at the community discussion page or experiment in the sandbox.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikiversity is a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service. Its primary goals are:
Learners and teachers are invited to join the Wikiversity community as editors of this wiki website where everyone can edit the pages. The community portal lists information about many aspects of Wikiversity.
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page