E-Learning Value Chain
Useful article outlining - in a convenient diagram - major sectors in the e-learning industry. The link is in the article; when you follow the link (and you will follow the link, right?) be sure to click on the different parts of the diagram to get an expanded description. More...

Get With the Program: Smart Strategies for Online Teaching
This is a theme that came up on several occasions at NLII in San Diego. As the blurb says, "Corporate trainers would do well to watch how high-school kids learn online." The article covers an number of other good lessons for people developing online learning. More...

Online College Classes Surge in Popularity
We may have reached the turning point in online learning... this is the second article in as many weeks pointing to the rise in popularity of online learning. More...

National Learning Infrastructure Initiative
Today's newsletter is coming to you live from the 2002 NLII conference in San Diego (and hence is being distributed on San Diego time, a bit later than usual). More...

Learning Analytics
e-learn, 2018/02/09
Blackboard's e-learn magazine has a special issue on learning analytics this month. The lead article by Priscila Zigunovas features multiple photos ofTimothy Harfield, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Blackboard Analytics (by a window, with a horse). More...

E-learning and the Professional Development of Trainers and Vocational Teachers
This new survey of trainers in Europe replicates results I have seen elsewhere. The vast majority of them undertake some form of learning and the amount of learning is increasing. Noteworthy is the fact that most of their learning is informal learning. More...

Cave Of Dreams: Simulations in Higher Education
It seems like pre-history, but it was only eight or nine years ago that my colleague Jeff McLaughlin and I developed the Painted Porch MAUD, a multi-user learning learning environment based on a MUD (or, as most educators would say, a MOO, though a MOO really is quite different technically). I mention this because one of my pride and joys in the Painted Porch was a simulation of Plato's Cave - Jeff and I were philosophy instructors, after all. More...

Stanford Online Courselets
Welcome to a new bit of jargon. The 'courselet' is defined as "a self-contained, integrated set of learning materials designed as a custom tutorial and offered online in support of Stanford engineering, science and engineering management courses." More...