Designing eLearning For iPads
Amit Garg, Upside Learning Blog, January 31, 2013

Very good slide deck with a lot of relevant data on the importance of understanding learning on tablets and some of the design elements that prove to be important (including my fave, 'fat fingers'). Tablets aren't just big mobile phones (or small computers) - they will be used, for example, more often to read or study, but also, used this way in more mobile environments (and often outside the range of connectivity, such as in airplanes or on older city buses or trains). More...

5 Wishes for the Next Stage of Online Learning
Contact North, January 16, 2013

Interesting discussion paper from Contact North that doesn't stay with the usual observaions and recommendations typical of such papers. Surveying what was important in 2012, the author points to the arricval of MOOCs (ofcourse) but also at new approaches to credit recognition and private sector engagement. More...

Outlook for online learning in 2013: online learning comes of age
Tony Bates, Online Learning and Distance Education Resources, January 7, 2013.

Millions of Lessons Learned on Electronic Napkins
Jörn Loviscach and Sebastian Wernicke, YouTube, January 2, 2013.

Overview odf lessons learned by two Udacity professors presented in a half-hour video (no transcript) from the 29th Chaos Communication Congress on massive open online courses, free education, and freeing education. More...

New Learning
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, June 12, 2014

Adapt Learning
Adapt Learning, June 12, 2014

Interesting effort devoted to, as their website says, "create, as a community, the leading e-learning authoring tool for producing responsive content... to develop a freely available authoring tool for organisations that wish to develop their own responsive e-learning content... [and] to encourage a large, global community of end users and developers." Version 1.1 of their framework has just been released. More...

The Secret Formula to Becoming an E-Learning Pro
Tom Kuhlmann, The Rapid eLearning Blog, June 4, 2014
I don't do the same things as described in these examples, because my idea of e-learning is very different, but I do practice something like the (not-so-secret) formula to becoming an e-learning pro:

• e-learning pros practice their craft
• e-learning pros show examples of their work
• e-learning pros share what they do and learn. More...