James Skidmore over at uWaterloo is currently teaching a graduate course on online teaching and learning, and is creating 60 blog posts for the 60 days of the class. I think this is going to become a fantastic collection. Each post is short and snappy, focusing on a single topic which is discussed often in…

Two conversation trends I’ve noticed this week in my RSS feeds and on Twitter are new weird names for online/blended learning (some are truly horrifying), and the other has been conversations around discussions, particularly discussion forums in online learning. As many classrooms in higher education are still virtual, this seems appropriate. Given that 50% of…