Online-Education Study Reaffirms Value of Good Teaching, Experts Say
A recent Education Department report backs up scholars' views that effective instructional methods are what help students succeed, in any medium.

The City University of New York's Baruch College recently released an interactive guide to using multimedia in courses. Here is the link http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/tutorials/copyright/

This message came from Cable Green the e-Learning Director for the Washington State Community and Technical Colleges.

Greetings Presidents, IC, ITC, SS, ELC, LMDC and SBCTC Staff,

As you know, Blackboard (Bb) has announced it is acquiring ANGEL. Twenty-nine of our system colleges have either moved to ANGEL or have plans to do so in the coming months (see below).

I spoke with ANGEL’s CEO on Wednesday and will speak with ANGEL and Bb’s CEOs next week. If you have any questions you’d like me to… Continue

From the Chronicle
“In the latest and perhaps broadest effort to provide instant access to scholarly resources, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization today inaugurated its World Digital Library, a Web site that allows visitors to browse through a trove of artifacts spanning the history of civilization.”

World Digital Library

Introducing the Collaborative Curve discusses the power of collaboration and and how performance improves as there is more collaboration experience.
This article sparks interest in how the same ideas could be used in classes and programs to raise the performance level of all students.