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 [...]

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 [...]

Have you checked out the Desire2Learn Community website lately?  https://community.desire2learn.com/index.asp
As it states on the webpage: 
The Desire2Learn Community is a free resource available to all clients who are using Desire2Learn to facilitate learning or administration.
The focus of the Community is to bring all Desire2Learn users together into one central location to promote collaboration, knowledge sharing and [...]