Instructional Design in Elearning

Nice overview of instructional design theory and practice with some definitions (with links) and (short) descriptions of and links to the major theories. More...

Bringing Affective Behavior to e-Learning
Today I'm pleased to present four items from a particularly strong issue of The Technology Source. This first article looks at the need for and techniques for creating immediacy in an online classroom. More...

Distance Learning Styles

Post from DEOS that demonstrates considerable insight into the topic of distance learning styles. The author reports on some research results, including from his doctoral dissertation a couple of years ago. More...

How to Manage the E-Learning Development Team
I've worked on course development teams and so I have a pretty good idea of some of the things that can go wrong, especially when one member of the team is a headstrong, stubborn and unorthodox instructional designer (i.e., me). More...

Confessions of an E-learner
"At a recent e-learning conference," writes the author, "one of the presenters said it was okay if students didn't complete a course.... Upon closer examination though, e-learning isn't failing. Instead, the existing course paradigm is failing." I don't think it was me who said that, but it could have been - I've said it enough over the last few months and years. More...

Measuring Success: Evaulation Strategies for Distance Education
After some introductory remarks, provides a good description of several stages of evaluation, including formative and summative evaluations. A nice chart of summative evaluation categories and data sources is presented. The article also looks at evaluating outcomes - a good thing - and addresses implementation concerns. More...

IBM Mindspan Solutions Introduces Next Generation e-Learning Platform
IBM jumps into the e-learning game in a big way (bigger than LearningSpace, anyways) with the launch of a suite of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) based e-learning applications. More...

Questia
This is pretty interesting. Questia is an online learning object repository. But it includes a step-by-step template for researching and authoring academic papers. More...

Guide to the Free Online Scholarship Movement
Freshly revised with corrected links and updated listings, this is the most complete and comprehensive guide on the internet to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship (FOS) movement. More...