Online Course Peer Review

I’m attending the Instructional Technology Council eLearning conference this week in Portland, OR. One of the most useful presentations I attended was titled Web 2.0 for You by Maria Andersen of Muskegon Community College in Michigan. Instead of using PowerPoint, she used something called Mindomo (available for free use at http://www.Mindomo.com). The presentation is mapped [...]

I’ve seen a couple of really good courses that utilize free learning objects from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center:  http://www.wisc-online.com/ .  Faculty from institutions outside the Wisconsin system are welcome to use the learning objects after registering with the site.

Here’s an example of one of the nearly 2,500 learning objects found on the site:

A typical animal [...]

Jody Ondich and I are currently working on a pretty exciting Faculty Award for Excellence project — creating a D2L course shell filled with examples of best practices in online learning.  All of the content of this “course” will come from you — LSC online faculty!
Specifically, we’re looking for great examples of course activities that engage students in [...]

If you’re not on the MnSCU technology list, you may have missed this.  It’s an article about excellence in web-based teaching that is worth the read.  An absolutely riveting online course: Nine principles for excellence in web-based teaching:  http://www.cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/179/177

Barry gave an excellent presentation yesterday titled, “Finding Web Content You Can Use”.  While I was vaguely familiar with Creative Commons, what I learned yesterday cleared things up significantly.  It’s important for online instructors and students to note that, just because something is found online, doesn’t mean that it is available for us to use and revise [...]