Instructional Design for Flow in Online Teaching
This isn't a bad article and the advice is reasonable, if bland, consisting of practical tips to effective course design. This isn't about the mechanics of how to design a course, but rather, the cultuvation of effective work habits. But, as I say, bland. More...

One Thing Missing in Most E-learning Courses
Tom Kuhlmann, The Rapid E-Learning Blog, 2018/09/25
I've been working on the design of my upcoming E-Learning 3.0 course, so I'm paying a bit more attention to instructional design articles than usual. So what's missing in most courses? It's a bit of a clickbait headline, isn't it? "What tends to be missing," writes Tom Kuhlmann, "is the more complex decision-making interactivity." By this he means activities that prompt hypothesis-formation and testing. I'm not sure it's that rare. More...

Surprising Ways AI Can Improve eLearning Accessibility
Pamela Hogle, Learning Solutions, 2018/09/27

I don't thing the solutions are particularly "surprising" but I think the linkage between AI and accessibility is a good one. More...

E-Learning 3.0 - The Outline
Stephen Downes, Google Docs, 2018/09/13
I will be offering a MOOC called "E-Learning 3.0" this fall, launching at the Global Online Learning Summit | Online Learning 2018 in mid-October. The course will explore some of the major themes underlying what has been called Web 3.0 or DWeb and how they will impact online learning. My focus, as always, is educational technology, but of course technology can only be discussed in terms of the social, cultural and economic environment in which it is applied. The page linked here is a tentative outline for the course - please feel encouraged to add comments or suggestions. There's no sign-up form or anything like that - I will ask for information only if it's needed either to provide services (like email newsletters) or for research purposes (purely voluntary & with full disclosure).
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A Rubric for Evaluating E-Learning Tools in Higher Education
Lauren Anstey, Gavan Watson, EDUCAUSE Review, 2018/09/12
The article delivers what it promises, a rubric for choosing educational technology. There's a link to a nice downloadable version - 7 page PDF. The rubric has some technical requirements, including mobile design, accessibility and functionality, and it has security and privacy requirements, and then along the educational dimension it invokes the Communities of Inquiry (CoI) model, adding rubrics related to social, teaching and cognitive presences. More...

Thousands flock to download “Theory and Practice of Online Learning”
By all accounts, Terry Anderson and Fathi Elloumi's “Theory and Practice of Online Learning” has been a runaway open content success, chalking up 11,000 downloads in the first few weeks since its release. More...

The Innovation/Productivity Quotient
E-learning is listed as one of the major innovations (grid computing, service oriented architecture, social networking and access devices are the others) that will allow companies to achieve the next major gain from using IT, by fostering innovation. All of these are network technologies; no centralization here. More...

Analysis of Responses to Consultation Document
Via Seb Schmoller, this is an analysis of the 430 responses the British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) received to last July's consultation document, Towards a Unified e-Learning Strategy. According to the summary, the most common concern express was regarding the digital divide. More...