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Blogs and Blogging

Chat

CMC: Computer-Mediated Communication

Community Building Online

E-mentoring

E-moderation

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Wikis

A brief history of the blog - David Wiley (2003)

A Place to Be Heard (Anne Davis talks about her blogging experiences)

Are You A Blogger? - Joe Moxley and Terry Beavers (AdjunctNation.com, Sep-Oct. 2003)

Autonomy in Online (Teaching &) Learning Environments - James Farmer (2004)

Blogging Across the Curriculum ("... a growing and living resource for weblog projects...") - Pattie Belle Hastings (Aug. 2003)

Blog Assisted Language Learning (BALL): Push button publishing for the pupils ("This paper examines the definitions of ‘weblog’, explains the weblog’s history and discusses how weblogs develop writing, reading and communication skills. The positive and negative potential of weblogs for language teachers is discussed, the use of weblogs in a writing class for non-native English speakers in the first year of university study is demonstrated, and feedback from these students is considered.") - Jason M. Ward (TEFL Web Journal, 2004)

Blogging and Presence Online ("This booklet was created to illustrate and document the chat: Blogs and Presence Online I gave at Tappedin on February 16th 2004 for for the TESOL EVOnline 2004 Session: Becoming a Webhead. I have structured it around the questions posted in the blog opened at http://yomar.bravejournal.com/entry/536

a) definition/contrasting/comparing blogs to forums, web pages, wikis
b) best blog providers
c) where to find and how to place add-ons like list of links, a tagboard / comment box, voice
d) how to make blogs collaborative and interactive
e) blog management in your everyday routine.") - Barbara Dieu (Feb. 2004)

      If you have problems accessing this e-book presentation, click here for the .htm document

Blogging and RSS - The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators ("... Two new Internet technologies, Weblogs and RSS (Real Simple Syndication), are redefining the way students and teachers use the Internet, turning them from mere readers into writers to the Web...") - Will Richardson (Information Today, Jan/Feb. 2004)

Blogging Applications Comparison (CIT)

Blogging as a Course Management Tool - Jon Baggaley (The Technology Source, Jul.-Aug. 2003)

Blogs can come back to bite you - Martha Irvine (The San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jul. 2005)

Blogging Goes Legit, Sort of (blogs in journalism courses and in education) - Noah Shachtman

Blogging in TESL (a presentation) - Ishbel Galloway (TESOL 2005)

Blogging Services Feature Comparison (CIT)

Blogging thoughts: personal publication as an online research tool - Torill Mortensen & Jill Walker (InterMedia Report, Mar. 2002)

Blogging to Learn ("...This paper will introduce the blogging phenomenon and present some options for educators. Some theoretical principles and guidelines for practice will be presented, along with some further resources for exploring the blog-o-sphere and creating a blog...") - Anne Bartlett-Bragg (2003)

Blogosphere: The emerging Media Ecosystem ("How Weblogs and Journalists work together to Report, Filter and Break the News")  - John Hiler (Microcontent News, 28 May 2002)

Blog Research Issues (a post) - Liz Lawley (Many 2 Many, 23 Jun. 2004)

Blog your Bulletin ("...Some principals are now using a Weblog or blog to post the staff bulletin, rather than Email attachments.") (techLEARNING, 8 Dec. 2004)

Blogs ("Blog stands for Web-log, an informal personal Website. Thousands of people blog every day. (Blog is both a noun and a verb.) I’ve blogged for 18 months, and I’m convinced that blogs are destined to become a powerful, dirt-cheap tool for e-learning and knowledge management....") - Jay Cross (Learning Circuits, Apr. 2002)

Blogs: A Disruptive Techonology Coming of Age? - Phillip D. Long (Campus Technology, n.d.) (originally published in Syllabus, Oct. 2002)

Blogs and Teaching - Jill Walker

Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration - Bob Godwin-Jones (LL&T, May 2003)

Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community ("This research investigates what form of communication is made possible through the weblog and what its uses are for the future... blogs have the potential to evolve into socially beneficial, self-sustaining virtual communities.") - Anita Blanchard (Into the Blogosphere)

Blogs for Kids - Sharon Housley (RSS Specifications, 2004)

BlogTalk: A European Conference on Weblogs - May 23-24, 2003 (Vienna, Austria)

Blown away by RSS Feeds & Blogs - Paul Stacey (E-Learning, 25 Jul. 2003)

      An Introduction to RSS for Educational Designers - Stephen Downes (2 Nov. 2002)

Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs ("...In this paper, we seek to characterize the properties of the emergent blog genre, and situate it with respect to offline genres, as well as with respect to the broader genre ecology of the Internet... Our analysis suggests that the blog is neither fundamentally new nor unique, but that it—along with other emergent genres driven by interactive web technologies—occupies a new position in the Internet genre ecology. Specifically, it forms a de facto bridge between multimedia HTML documents and text-based computer-mediated communication, thereby blurring the traditional distinction between these two dominant Internet paradigms, and potentially contributing to its breakdown in the future.") - Susan C. Herring et al. (2004)

Campus Communications & the Wisdom of Blogging ("What, then, is the potential for blogs in higher education?") - Sarah Roberts (Syllabus Magazine, Aug. 2003)

Choosing a Blogging Package for Students - Scott Hacker (O'Reilly, 23 Aug. 2002)

Communication dynamics: discussion boards, weblogs and the development of communitites of inquiry in online learning environments (...the degree to which a successful community of inquiry can be facilitated through the use of discussion boards is examined and compared to the possibilities afforded by weblogs in the same role. Weblogs, it is argued, offer new opportunities in the development of social, cognitive and teacher presence online and should be considered in the development of or alongside established OLEs") - James Farmer (5 Oct. 2004)

Community Blogging ("An analysis of community as it emerges in blogging: how it is formed, how it should reshape the blogosphere, and how it can be implemented (quite easily) technologically. And along the way, deflating a few pet concepts of the blogerati, such as the value of the long tail and the utility of tagging.") - Stephen Downes (19 Feb. 2005)

Content Delivery in the 'Blogsphere' - Richard E Ferdi and Kaye D. Trammell (THE Journal, Deb. 2004)

Content Syndication and Online Learning ("This paper divides into two parts. In the first part it defines and describes the RSS (Rich Site Summary) format and its emerging use as a format for content syndication by news and media organizations on the world wide web... In the second part, the theories and practice employed by news and media organizations are applied to online learning...") - Stephen Downes (22 Sep. 2000)

Creating a Writing Course Utilizing Class and Student Blogs (...The objectives of this paper are 1) to show other teachers how to set up a course using blogs at ‘Blogger' (a free blogging service) and 2) to discuss the advantages of blogs for both teachers and students.  The ideas presented are based on a graduate level science writing course taught in the spring of 2003") - Andrew Johnson (TESL-J, Aug. 2004)

Diaries as introspective research tools: From Ashton-Warner to Blogs (...discusses blogging in the familiar context of diary writing, and then shows how a diary in the form of a blog (allowing others to comment on the 'diary') can be useful as a qualitative research tool...") - Renata Suzuki (TESL-EJ, Jun. 2004)

Education Web Logs - Carol Holzberg (techLEARNING, 1 Aug. 2003)

Educational Blogging - Stephen Downes (EDUCAUSE Review, Sep/Oct 2004)

Exploring the use of blogs as learning spaces in the higher education sector ("...This paper explores the potential of blogs as learning spaces for students in the higher education sector. It refers to the nascent literature on the subject, explores methods for using blogs for educational purposes in university courses (eg. Harvard Law School), and records the experience of the Brisbane Graduate School of Business at Queensland University of Technology, with its 'MBA blog'. The paper concludes that blogging has the potential to be a transformational technology for teaching and learning.") - Jeremy B. Williams and Joanne Jacobs (AJET, Spring 2004)

Final version of weblog definition (for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory) - Jill Walker (Jun. 2003)

Good Weblog Design and Layout (Guidelines) - Dave Pollard (19 Feb. 2004)

How Educators Are Using Weblogs - The Intel Innovator

      A Place to Be Heard: Elementary writers learn to love their weblogs (4th-5th grade)

      A Space of Your Own: Student weblogs motivate young readers to do their best (K-4th grade)

      This Just In: High school journalists use weblogs to mentor younger writers (9th-12th grade)

      Weblogging to Success: Students blossom as writers through a classroom weblog (8th grade)

How the Students View Weblogs - Created by Anne Davis (Feb. 2003)

How To: Start Your Own Blog - Tim Stahmer (techLEARNING, 15 May 2005)

In the Classroom, Web Blogs Are the New Bulletin Boards - Jeffrey Selingo (New York Times Online, 19 Aug. 2004)

Introduction to Blogs and Blogging ("...A blog is high tech and futuristic and may get students interested in writing. Blogs may also help teachers share ideas about their interests in education.") - Michael Stach (techLearning, 1 Apr. 2004)

Keeping an education-related online diary - Hafsa Ahsan (14 Jan. 2005)

Leading Internet scholar addresses blogs in education ("Laura J. Gurak says teachers can utilize Internet in teaching generation that grew up online.") - Kirsten Matin (The Daily Barometer, 16 Nov. 2004)

Learner Attitudes Towards a Tutor-Run Weblog in the EFL University Classroom - Aaron Patric Campbell

Let's Blog! Introducing Blogs in EFL (presentation) - Teresa Almeida d'Eça (18th APPI Conference, 28 Apr. 2004)

Let's go blogging now, everyone is learning how, come on and go blogging with me - Vance Stevens (2005 Tesol Arabia. Live webcast, 14 Apr. 2005)

Mad Blogs and English(men) - Jim Duber (TESL-EJ, Sep. 2002)

More than Personal: The Impact of Weblogs - Stephen Downes (1 May 2003)

One Path to the Blog: An Odyssey in Tracking and Sharing Technology with the Online Higher Education Community ("...This new Web format has already had an important impact on online journalism as well as education. Each of us who blogs has traveled a different path, which ultimately brought us to the realization that blogging was the best solution to a communication challenge.") - Ray Schroeder (eLearn Magazine)

Our ABC Blook on Blogging - The Wrinkles Weblog Group (5th graders guided by Anne Davis)

Pedagogical Underpinnings of Blogs in the Classroom - Barbara Ganley (12 Jan. 2005)

    Presentation Notes for CET Presentation on Blogging in the Liberal Arts - Barbara Ganley (11 Jan. 2005)

Personal Webpublishing as a reflective conversational tool for self-organized learning ("This paper suggests that personal Webpublishing technologies and practices can be conceptualized as a reflective conversational learning tool for self-organized learning. Beyond the examination of the theoretical basis for such a claim, initial ideas for specific learning environment designs on the basis of a "conversational framework" are presented.") - Sebastian Fiedler (May 2003)

Publishing a Project Weblog - Jon Udell (InfoWorld, 28 Mar. 2003)

RSS for Beginners (IRRODL)

RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators - Will Richardson

RSS History - Dave Winer (Harvard Law, 6 Apr. 2004)

RSS: The Next Killer App for Education - Mary Harrsch  (The Technology Source, Jul-Aug 2003)

RSS Usage Skyrockets in the U.S. (Harvard Law, 4 Jan. 2005)

Spinning yarns around the digital fire: Storytelling and dialogue among youth on the Internet - David Huffaker (First Monday, Jan. 2004)

Summer of the "Blog" - Kevin Hodgson (29 Aug. 2003)

Teacher Bloggers and Education Arts - David Warlick (8 Jan. 2005)

Teaching with a Weblog: How to Post Student Work Online ("...  This paper explains how to use a blog for teaching:  (1) The reasons for putting student work online are discussed, (2) the steps needed to initiate and manage a blog are described, and (3) the advantages of a blog as compared with the traditional method of creating web pages are presented") - Timothy C. Johnston (Apr. 2002)

The ABCs of RSS ("...In simple terms, RSS is a format for aggregating Web content in one place. an RSS feed ... uses a type of software called an "aggregator" or feed collector to check the feeds you subscribe to, usually every hour, and collect all the new content from those sites...") - Will Richardson (techLearning, 15 May 2005)

The Art of Blogging - Part 1 - George Siemens (1 Dec. 2002)

The Art of Blogging - Part 2 - George Siemens (6 Dec. 2002)

      The Art of Blogging (Summary Notes) - George Siemens (7 May 2004)

The Audioblogging Revolution ("The latest developments in audioblogging such as PODcasting") - Harold Gilchrist

The best of British blogging (Guardian Unlimited, 18 Dec. 2003)

The Blogging Iceberg (Perseus, May 2004)

The Blogging Revolution - Andrew Sullivan (Wired, May 2002)

The (Classroom) Blog: A Moment for Literacy, A Moment for Giving Pause - Austin Lingerfelt (12 Dec. 2004)

The educated blogger: Using Weblogs to promote literacy in the classroom - David Huffaker (First Monday, Jun. 2004)

The History of Weblogs - Dave Winer (Nov. 2001)

The Microcontent News Blogging Software Roundup ("... history and evolution of the blogging software sector...") - John Hiler (Microcontent News, 22 Jul. 2002)

The World Wide Blog (an interview with "Joichi Ito, founder of Neoteny and other Internet companies, [who] finds that cyberspace is embracing it roots — collaboration, community, and personal communications — with bloggers leading the way.") (Ubiquity, Aug. 2004)

To Blog or not to Blog ("...Unlike making Web pages, you don't need any special skills to blog. Free or low-cost blog software applications do all the work for you...") - Christine Boese (CNN.com, 23 Sep. 2002)

Toxic Blogs Distribute Malcode and Keyloggers (Websence, 12 Apr. 2005)

Understanding Weblogs: a communicative perspective ("This research investigates what form of communication is made possible through the weblog and what its uses are for the future..." - this paper is a summarized translation of a Master's thesis) - Elmine Wijnia

Untangling Blogs & RSS (presentation) - Teri Vogel and Doug Goans

Using LiveJournal for Authentic Communication in EFL Classes ("This paper describes a way for teachers to set-up and facilitate authentic international communication in the EFL classroom using LiveJournal.com: a free, hosted weblog tool with a 1.9 million-member-strong community of active users and built-in social networking features.  It also highlights the potential that social software, like LiveJournal, has for encouraging greater autonomy and self-direction in foreign language learning.") - Aaron P. Campbell (Internet TESL-J, Sep. 2004)

We Blog. What about you? (online presentation: part 1) - Barbara Dieu, Buthaina Al-Othman and Teresa Almeida d'Eça (6th BelNATE-IATEFL Conference. Minsk, Belarus: 4 Nov. 2004)

      Let's Open our own Blog (online presentation: part 2) - Barbara Dieu, Buthaina Al-Othman and Teresa Almeida d'Eça (6th BelNATE-IATEFL Conference. Minsk, Belarus: 4 Nov. 2004)

Weblog as Online Community Management Tool - Lee LeFever (29 Sep. 2004)

Weblog in ELT: Publishing your Thoughts ("...This paper shares the experience of a language instructor in utilizing weblog to enhance the traditional journal writing task...") - Ghazali Bunari

Weblogging: Another kind of website - Chris Ashley (IST - Interactive University, Fall 2001)

      Weblogs, part II: A Swiss Army website? - Chris Ashley, IST - Interactive University, Winter 2002)

Weblog Workshop - Anne Davis (2004)

Weblogs: A History and Perspective - Rebecca Blood (Sep. 2000)

Web Logs (Blogs): A Primer and Applications in Education - Ray Schroeder (May 2003)

Web logs in Education FAQ - Will Richardson (2004)

Weblogs and Discourse: Weblogs as a transformational technology for higher education and academic research - Oliver Wrede (Blogtalk Conference Paper, Vienna, 23-24 May 2003)

Weblogs at Harvard Law - Stephen Downes (The Technology Source, Jul.-Aug. 2003)

Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes ("The purpose of this paper is to introduce three ways that weblogs can be used to support ESL classroom learning. After defining what a weblog is, I will proceed to show how weblogs can be put into immediate use in the ESL classroom by means of three distinct types: the tutor weblog, learner weblog, and class weblog. I will also mention the software available for creating and maintaining weblogs.") - Aaron Patric Campbell (The Internet TESL Journal, Feb. 2003)

Weblogs in Education - David Carraher (9 Apr. 2003)

Weblogs in Education: Bringing the World to the Liberal Arts Classroom ("A new, easy-to-use web publishing tool known as a weblog allows users to publish content to the web from their browsers, providing users with an unprecedented ability to participate in the internet community. In the true liberal arts tradition, teachers and students are using these tools to effectively break down the walls of the classroom, integrating teaching and learning with local and virtual communities.") - Sarah Lohnes (The NITL News, Winter 2003)

Weblogs: The Possibilities are Limitless! -Anne Davis (presentation at NECC 2004)

      What are the possibilities for weblogs in education?

Web logs in Education FAQ - Will Richardson (weblogg-ED, 15 Feb. 2003)

Welcome to the 'new' Web, same as the 'old' Web ("...News feed readers are less about "news" as they are an alternative on-ramp to the Web...") - Christine Boese (CNN.com Technology, 15 Jul. 2003)

What are the Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs? - Lee LeFever (24 Aug. 2004)

What are weblogs? - Dave Winer (4 Jun. 2001)

What are weblogs? - Dave Winer (Nov. 2001)

What is RSS?

What's The Fuss with RSS? (numerous links)

What makes a weblog a weblog? - Dave Winer (23 May 2003)

What We're Doing When We Blog - Meg Hourihan (13 Jun. 2002)

When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale About Blogs, Email Lists, Discussion, and Interaction - Steven D. Krause

When Weblogs Can Be Harmful ("...we are approaching a historic moment when we will be able to gather far more information about what people know much more quickly. In the abstract, this is a good thing. But does it always lead to the practical effect of better decision-making? I think not...") - Michael Feldstein (eLearn Magazine, 27 Aug. 2004)

Who says elementary students can't blog? - Anne Davis (11 Nov. 2004)

Why blog in the classroom? - Charles Lowe (26 Apr.2003)

Why Weblogs? ("Ideas from various sources") - Will Richardson (2003)

Writing with Web Logs ("An emergent genre is making a space for students to publish online...") - Kristen Kennedy (Tech Learning, 15 Feb. 2003)

Writing with Weblogs: Reinventing Student Journals ("...Blogs offer a communication medium that is more structured than an e-mail list and more focused than a discussion board. The structure creates a framework for social networks and taps a basic human desire to interact and communicate. The thousands who join the blogging revolution each week testify to the potential of the new medium. The instructional potential is striking.") - Glen Bull, Gina Bull, and Sara Kajder (L&TT, Sep. 2003)

20six ("is the UK's largest weblogging community". It's free)

audioBlogger ("provides bloggers with the ability to post audio to their blogs from any phone")

      How does Audio Blogger work? - Jeremy Allaire (last updated 1 Jun. 2004)

Blog-City

      Blog-City Support

Blogger ("offers you instant communication power by letting you post your thoughts to the web whenever the urge strikes")

      How to create a BLOG using Blogger - Vance Stevens (31 Aug. 2003)

Blogroots (resources on blog hosts)

Blog Software Breakdown ("This chart displays attributes of different user-installed blog software packages side-by-side for comparison. Only server-installed scripts will be included in this list. (Sorry, no Radio, Blogger, etc.) I created this chart to help figure out what blog tool best suited my needs. Hopefully, it will be useful to the self-hosted blogging community as well.")

Blog*Spot

Bravenet

DiaryLand

Greymatter ("with fully-integrated comments, searching, file uploading and image handling, completely customisable output through dozens of templates and variables, multiple author support, and many other features—while having perhaps the simplest installation process and easiest-to-use interface of any program offering this level of functionality")

LiveJournal ("... is a simple-to-use (but extremely powerful and customizable) personal publishing ("blogging") tool...)

Movable Type ("... customizable publishing system which installs on web servers to enable individuals or organizations to manage and update weblogs, journals, and frequently-updated website content")

SchoolBlogs

      What are SchoolBlogs? (Jan. 2002)

Tabulas

tBlog

Tripod

TypePad

Weblog Kitchen

Xanga

APCampbell: Under the Influence of Epoche (language teaching, psychology and various reflections) - Aaron Campbell

Bee Online (a meeting place for students to share opinions and relax) - Barbara Dieu

Blog-EFL ("Observations and comments about the use of weblogs with students and teachers in ELT") - Graham Stanley (Jul. 2003)

Blogs & CMSs - Charles Lowe (a KairosNews blog)

Curb Cut Learning: Accessibility, Universal Design and Distance Education - Christopher Phillips

EBN - Educational Bloggers Network

EdBlogger Praxis ("Examples of Educator, Pre-Service, EFL, Classroom,Collaborative, Project , etc., weblogs that are online") - Alberto Delgado

EDTEC700: Blogging in the Classroom - Bernie Dodge (Sep. 2004)

EduBlog Insights ("Comments, Reflections and occasional Brainstorms") - Anne Davis (2004)

Edublog WebRing

Educational Technology Blog - Ray Schroeder (UIS)

English-Blogs.com (collection of blogs about England)

jill/txt - Jill Walker

Have Fun with English (for Teresa's EFL 5th graders) - Teresa Almeida d'Eça (2004)

Let's Blog! (for Teresa's EFL 7th graders) - Teresa Almeida d'Eça (2003)

OLDaily - Stephen Downes

Online Learning Update - Ray Schroeder (UIS)

SchoolBlogs - Peter Ford and Adam Curry

Stepehen's Web - Stephen Downes

Techno-News Blog (UIS)

Techszewski: A Digital Storytelling Blog - Tom Banaszewski

The English Blog: For Learners and teachers of English - Jeffery Hil

The New Tanuki (. . .for Aaron's EFL learners) - Aaron P. Campbell

Video-chat unit blog (for 'English for Architecture' students in Caracas, Venezuela)- Dafne González (2003)

weblogg-ed ("using weblogs in Education") - Will Richardson

Weblogs at Harvard Law

WebQuest Portal (a weblog about webquests)

A Blogger's Code of Ethics - Jonathan Dube (CyberJournalist)

Eats, Blogs and Leaves - Jennifer Garrett (Aug. 2004)

Weblog Ethics - Rebecca Blood

Blog On: Building Online Communities with Web Logs - Todd Stauffer (2002)

Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content - Biz Stone (2002)

Essential Blogging - Shelley Powers, Cory Doctorow et al. (O'Reilly, 2002)

      Essential Blogging (sample chapter: 'Advanced Blogger')

Running Weblogs with Slash - chromatic et al. (O'Reilly)

The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining your Blog - Rebecca Blood (2002)

We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs - Paul Bausch et al. (2002)

We've Got Blog: How Weblogs are Changing our Culture (a collection of 34 essays) - Intro by Rebecca Blood (2002)

Creating an IP Weblog Course Outline

      Additional Readings and Resources (a collection of links)

Motivating Student Writing with Weblogs - Bernie Dodge

Blogging Basics: Creating Student Journals on the Web ("You will learn what blogging is and how to create classroom blogs for you and your students.") - Lorrie Jackson (Education World, 14 May 2003)

Getting Started with Blogger: A Tutorial from the Folks at Feedster

How to Create an RSS Feed With Notepad, a Web Server, and a Beer - Stephen Downes (29 Jul. 2003)

How to Start a Blog - Phillip J. Windley (Dec. 2004)

Setting up your Blog with Blogger.com - Bernie Dodge (Apr. 2004)

Using Blosxom to Create a Weblog on Darkwing - Mary Harrsch (last updated 2 Apr. 2004)

About blogging - John Lovas

About Weblogg-ed ("...This site is dedicated to discussions and reflections on the use of Weblogs, wikis, RSS, and other Internet-related technologies in the K-12 classroom...) - Will Richardson

Are your Students Blogging Today? What is a Blog, Anyway?

A Weblog Webliography - Charles Lowe (KairosNews, Apr. 2005)

Big List of Blog Search Engines ("...all the blog search engines, directories, and web-based RSS aggregators I could find, along with brief instructions on getting your site listed...") - Ari Paparo

Blog Search Engine

Blogging Resource Links

Blogging Software and Tools

Blogs (Gallaudet University)

Educational Weblog Articles - Compiled by Anne Davis

Finding Blogs, Blog Posts, RSS Feeds and RSS Entries - Compiled by Darlene Fichter (2004)

Into the Blogosphere ("This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project requires a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others...") - L. Gurak et al. (eds.) (2004)

Maria Jordano's links to blogs on education, EFL&ESL, blog development, etc

SchoolBlogs

The bdodge EduBlogging Archive

Weblogs Compendium ("... everything you need to know about weblogs/blogs: hosting services, tools, directories, definitions, RSS readers and resources...")

Weblogs Compendium: Blog Tools (a blog glossary)

Weblogs in Education

Weblogs in the Classroom

WWW2004: Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics (links to the presentaions) (18 May 2004)

Adjusting to MOOs - Nick Carbone

A Taxonomy of Educational Chats for EFL/ESL - Dafne González (Paper presented at Primer Congreso Virtual de Aprendizaje con Tecnologia. May 2003)

Chat Services with a Voice ("This paper investigates techniques to provide additional dimension to student-student and student- teacher interaction at an academic institute. The technologies adopted also take into account the constraints posed by the Internet infrastructure that is widely used for this interaction and the affordability of the solution for the user community.  The research adopts an approach that does not involve the user community to subscribe to higher bandwidth connections. The research involved a background study of current tools and software packages to integrate voice and image functionality into a chat service...") - Hira Sathu et al. (Learning Technology, Jul. 2001)

Computer Mediated Communication: A Window on L2 Spanish Interlanguage ("The Interaction Hypothesis states that the conditions for SLA are crucially enhanced by having L2 learners negotiate meaning (i.e., resolve their miscommunications) with other speakers, native or otherwise. . . Fifty intermediate L2 Spanish learners were asked to carry out networked discussions in pairs during their lab time using a synchronous chat program. . . The findings suggest that computer mediated communication (CMC) can provide many of the alleged benefits ascribed to the Interaction Hypothesis. . . The study demonstrates, however, the value of synchronous chat records as a window for investigating interlanguage") - Robert Blake (LL&T, May 2000)

Culturally Speaking Online: How daunting can it be for EFL Students in Taiwan? - Aiden Yeh (2002)

Development of Communication Conventions in Instructional Electronic Chats - Karen L. Murphy and  Mauri P. Collins (Journal of Distance Education, 1997)

Educational Chat: Chat and the ESL Class (presentation) - John H. Steele (2001)

Five Messages about IM (business oriented) - Daniel J. Horgan (CNN.com/Sci-Tech, 4 Nov. 2001)

Giving Exams in an Online Chat Room - Janet K. M. Marta (Jan. 2002)

Godzilla Can MOO, Can You? MOOs for Construction, Collaboration & Community Research ("... This article briefly examines MOOs and advances the argument that language educators who profess an educational philosophy of constructivism, collaboration, and community, and who want to further their own professional development would be well advised to consider using MOOs...") - Larry B. Davies, Lesley Shield and Markus J. Weininger (TLT, Feb. 1998)

IM is here. RU prepared? ("Instant messaging software isn't just for teenagers. Businesses that adopt it foster speedy communication and collaboration.... Questions get answered immediately, ad hoc discussions and debates take place online instead of during meandering in-person meetings, and small problems are solved before they have the time to turn into big problems.") (business oriented) - Scott Kirsner (Darwin, Feb. 2002)

In-Room Chat as a Social Tool - Clay Shirky (O'Reilly Network, 26 Dec. 2002)

Instant Messaging - Collaborative Tool or Educator's nightmare! ("...this paper reviews some of the good, the bad, and the ugly about instant messaging and some of the benefits and drawbacks of instant messaging in educational settings") - Robert Farmer (2003)

Instant Messaging for Instant Communications - Reid Goldsborough (Apr. 2001)

Instant Messaging in Higher Education: A New Faculty Development Challenge ("...This presentation examines potential applications in higher education, and presents a training model to maximize faculty and staff use of the technology.") - Ellen R. Cohn (2002)

Introducing EFL Students to Chat Rooms ("This article contains four lesson plans that show language learners how to use chat rooms for language learning purposes. This paper covers the following: A. Pedagogical rationale for using chat rooms as language learning tool. B. Difficulties language learners have with chat rooms. C. Lesson plans for four activities. D. References.") - Jo Mynard (2002)

It's good to talk - Facilitating discussions and chats in WebCT ("The following is an account my experiences of tutoring a module using this college’s VLE, WebCT. The WebCT course was actually set up as a project for the MA in Education in e-learning at the University of Hull and ran in the summer term of 2003. What distinguishes this ‘course’ or module was that the delivery and management was entirely online...") - Martin Compton (Ferl, 14 Jul.2004)

LanguageMOO: A multi-user object-oriented domain for second language education ("Advances in computer mediated communications (CMC) technologies have fostered the emergence of tools that enable synchronous communication. One class of these tools popularly known as MOOs, (multi-user domains object-orientated) utilize open source software to create learning environments in which users can interact synchronously and create virtual objects and content within the context of a virtual world...") - Mark Peterson (Learning Technology, Oct. 2002)

Making Online Sense of the Chat Room Environment (.ppt presentation) - Mandi Axmann, Cynthia Calongne, Dawn Cox and Bernard Poole (Apr. 2003)

Negotiation of Meaning and Codeswitching in Online Tandems ("The prime objective of the study was to give those students who participated in the online exchanges a chance to meet with native speakers of their target language in real time and to investigate if the concept of tandem learning . . . could be successfully transferred from e-mail-based discourse to a format in which the learners could interact with each other in real time over a computer network") - Markus Kötter (LL&T, May2003)

No Talking, Please, Just Chatting: Collaborative Writing with Computers - Marsha Chan (1996)

Perceptions of Anonymity in a Language Learning Text Chat Room - Karen Bond (Jan. 2002)

Processes and Outcomes in Networked Classroom Interaction: Defining the Research Agenda for L2 Computer-Assisted Classroom Discussion ("The present paper focuses on the use of one networked technology, namely synchronous computer-mediated interaction, in the second language (L2) classroom. The scope is intentionally limited to research concerned with evaluating the potential benefits of computer-assisted classroom discussion (CACD) in terms of second language acquisition (SLA) theory...") - Lourdes Ortega (LL&T, Jul. 1997)

Rationale for chat in language learning - Vance Stevens and Yaodong Chen (Sep. 2002)

Synchronous virtual environments in computer-assisted language learning (CALL): New pedagogical approaches ("...This paper will examine some of the ways in which MOO virtual worlds are being utilized in second language education.") - Mark Peterson (Learning Technology, Jul. 2003)

"Talking" on the Internet: SchMOOze University (how to get started with SchMOOze) - Deborah Healey (1997)

      How To at SchMOOze - Deborah Healey (Nov. 1997)

      Using SchMOOze in the Classroom - Deborah Healey (Dec. 1997)

Teaching and Learning through Chat: A Taxonomy of Educational Chat for EFL/ESL ("Chat are synchronic communicative spaces which are incorporated into online  activities, especially in EFL/ESL courses, due to the possibilities to interact with native and non-native speakers of the L2 they offer participants. Teachers interested in using chat for educational purposes should know the characteristics of  different chat tasks according to the objective, role of moderator, and structure of the  interaction to be generated, in order to plan their activities accordingly. This paper introduces a taxonomy for educational chat which was designed based on the author’s experience using chat with language learners and in-service teachers.") - Dafne Gonzalez (IATEFL Poland Computer SIG Journal , Oct. 2003)

The Importance of Being Synchronous ("...As our classes become increasingly computer-mediated, as our students become increasingly computer-literate and willing to take courses online, the dislocations caused by these sea-changes must concern us as teachers. As we consider using asynchronous or synchronous computer-mediated communication in our online classes, questions about and challenges to our teaching methods and objectives confront us like an insistent blinking cursor.") - Joel Haefner (Apr. 2000)

The Use of Chat in EFL/ESL ("As many practitioners with exposure to the medium will agree, chat (or if you prefer, synchronous online communication) has much to offer language teachers and learners. In the article that follows, Teresa Almeida d'Eça presents her case for chat from the point of view of a teacher with positive experiences and a balanced awareness of the potential of the medium.") - Teresa Almeida d'Eça (TESL-EJ, Jun. 2003)

To chat or not to chat in the EFL classroom, that is the question! - Teresa Almeida d'Eça (2002)

The Webheads Community of Language Learners Online - Vance Stevens and Arif Altun (7 Nov. 2001)

To Chat or to Chatter: Making Online Sense of theChat Room Environment ("...What are some of the reservations that professors might have about using the Chat Room? Why include the Chat Room as a tool in the online learning environment? What is the role of the instructor? What are the conditions for optimal learning in the context of the Chat Room? What is the role of immediacy and feedback? How can the Chat Room, in its various forms, cater to different learning styles?") - Bernard Poole (TCC 2003)

Using Chats in EFL: A Tool for Collaborative Learning ("The present article will aim to offer a personal practical vision on the use of chatrooms in Secundaria and Bachillerato. It will try to go all the way from an initial hypothesis to the demonstration of the usefulness of chatrooms in the FL curriculum by showing an experimental study.") - Gregorio Blanco Martín (The GRETA Magazine, 2002)

Using a Modular Approach to schMOOze with ESL/EFL Students ("...the current article proposes a modular approach for using schMOOze University, the premier MOO site for ESL/EFL...") - James Backer (TESL J, May 2001)

Using Native Speakers in Chat ("This study considers implications for distance language learning of negotiations by a group of intermediate learners of Italian interacting in dyads on a Web based Italian native speaker (NS) chat program. . .") - Vincenza Tudini (LL&T, Sep. 2003)

CMC clients promoting language learning through chatting online (information on numerous chat platforms) - Vance Stevens

Dave's ESL Cafe Chat Central

Internet Audio Communication for Second Language Learning: A Comparative Review of Six Programs - Gary A. Cziko and Sujung Park (LL&T, Jan. 2003)

Chat as a Teaching Tool (ION, Nov. 1999)

Chat Information (help) - Deborah Healey (2001)

Chat Rooms for EFL/ESL Use (scroll halfway down until you find this heading) - a result of the "Good Practice Day" 2002 organized by the University of Leiden, Netherlands

Conferencing Online: an Overview - Deborah Healey (1998)

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) - Telecollaborate!

      Chat Room Safety Tips (includes a list of chat rooms)- Tommy Payton (1999)

      State of The Union (a project incorporating IRC)

MOO Basics - Kathleen Fletcher-Bacer

Mr. C's MUVE Links - Jeff Cooper

Resources - compiled by Karen Murphy (2000)

Strategies for Teaching in MOOspaces - Claudine Keenan and Peter Sands

Strategies for Using Chat as a Communication Tool (ION, 2003)

      Pedagogic Uses

      Coping Strategies (for monitoring and conducting online text chat)

      Chat Etiquette - Jo Torgessen (1996)

Using Electronic Chats for Instructional Purposes - Karen L. Murphy and Mauri P. Collins (Mar. 1997)

Welcome to MOOs (helpful commands and links) - David Beach and Laurie Miller (Feb. 1997)

24 Hours in the Life of a Synchronous Trainer - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, Mar. 2001)

A Comparison between a Distance and a Traditional Graduate Accounting Class - Margaret Gagne and Morgan Shepherd (THE Journal, Apr. 2001)

A day in the Life of a Cybrarian: 36 hrs = 1 Day - BJ Berquist (2000)

A day in the life of an online language educator - Vance Stevens (TESL-EJ, Dec. 2002)

A Framework for Design and Evaluation of Internet-Based Distance Learning Courses Phase One - Framework Justification, Design and Evaluation - Russell K. Baker (OJDLA, Summer 2003)

A Framework for Designing Questions for Online Learning (". . .Questioning is a significant instructional design element for the promotion of effective discussion. This article describes a theoretical framework for designing questions for starting online discussion and follow-up questions to maintain the discussion. This framework is placed within a broader context of discussion within a constructivist, online environment. . ." - Lin Muilenburg and Zane L. Berge (eModerators, Mar. 2002)

A Journey into Constructivism ("...I've constructed this text in an attempt to demonstrate my current understandings of constructivism, as well as the process by which my knowledge developed....") - Martin Dougiamas (Nov. 1998)

Andrological and Pedagogical Training Differences for Online Instructors - Heather S. Gibbons and George P. Wentworth (Jun. 2001)

A New Age of Education and Tutoring ("...The technology of the 21st century has made it possible to bring together the tutor and student into the same room, face to face, although they may be time zones apart. The computer does not teach the student but rather fosters the ability for teacher and pupil to work together in a one-on-one classroom setting, void of peer pressure but with a voluminous and highly effective level of direct instruction....") - Howard Heller (techLearning, 1 Ap. 2005)

An Online Learning Community: the students' perspective - Michael Coghlan and Vance Stevens (TCC2000, March 2000)

Asynchronous Discussions: Importance, Design, Facilitation and Evaluation - Tracey Smith (ION, Nov.-Dec. 2002)

A Virtual Virtuoso: CathyAnne Murtha ("...The occasion is an online class, taught by CathyAnne Murtha, founder of the Access Technology Institute (ATI). The format is called voice chat, in which the students and teacher talk "live" to one another from points scattered around the country in a virtual classroom that renders distance irrelevant. The positive energy they create as a unified group is palpable....") - an interview by Deborah Kendrick (AccessWorld, Sep. 2004)

A Theory for eLearning - Mark Nichols (Mar. 2003)

Barriers to Distance Education and Training: Survey Results ("...This study supplies evidence of not only what barriers there are in distance education, but the priority given to them by various stakeholders and at different stages of organizational maturity regarding distance education and training. Implications include: 1) recognition that it is common for the perceived barriers to be greater in the initial stages of organizational maturity in distance education and training, and 2) it should be expected that the ranking of which obstacles are most important to solve will change as distance training and education within the organization becomes mission-critical.") - Zane L. Berge et al. (May 2002)

Baring Professional Souls: Reflections on Web Life ("Web-based practice is currently being described and analyzed extensively, but so far the literature shows few examples of frank, intrapersonal practitioner reflection about that practice. This reflective analysis of an online professional development event illustrates in three narratives and a meta-reflection how three practitioners negotiated the conceptual framework, the activity design, and the roles and presence of the two online facilitators....") - Elizabeth J. Burge et al. (JDE, 2000)

Be Prepared for Anything in a Synchronous Environment - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, May 2000)

Big Tech on Campus ("The success of school-backed technology initiatives is critical for providers of digital lifestyle equipment and services, which test early-adoption patterns and scramble for mindshare among tech-heavy spenders. But there's a fine line between giving students access to cutting-edge technology and making them marketing guinea pigs, some critics warn...") - Marguerite Reardon (CNET News, 6 Sep. 2004)

Blended Learning: Choosing the Right Blend - Felicia Douglis

Blended Learning Design: Five Key Ingredients ("People are not single-method learners!” says e-learning guru Elliott Masie (cited in Rossett, 2002). Indeed, while specific “blended” offerings differ, industry consensus continues to point to the use of multiple modalities for learning. Masie puts it simply: “We are, as a species, blended learners.” If this is true–that people perform better when they have a mix of modalities and methods of learning–what defines the most effective mix? Will any combination of modalities do, or is there an “optimum blend,” a “sweet spot” to blended learning? In short, what is the most effective blended learning design? This paper suggests the need for five critical ingredients for blended learning, and uses both traditional and modern instructional design to back it up.") - Jared M. Carman (Oct. 2002)

Blended learning in the mixer ("...In coming to terms with blended learning, it’s helpful to start with what it is not. First of all, it is not providing learners with choices of how to undergo a piece of training ...") - Clive Shpeherd (Above&Beyond, Dec. 2004)

Blended Learning Models ("The term blended learning is used to describe a solution that combines several different delivery methods, such as collaboration software, Web-based courses, EPSS, and knowledge management practices. Blended learning also is used to describe learning that mixes various event-based activities, including face-to-face classrooms, live e-learning, and self-paced learning. Unfortunately, there's no single formula that guarantees learning, but here are some guidelines from NIIT on how to order your learning activities.") - Purnima Valiathan (Learning Circuits, Aug. 2002)

Building 21st Century Collaborative Learning Communities ("...Sometimes the obstacles to collaboration seem daunting, but as educators we need to collaborate to evolve best practices. By developing great collective partnerships through collaboration and support and seeing the possibilities for curriculum transformation through technology, we can truly become 21st century educators.") - Jeff Cooper (NETC Circuit, Spring 2004)

Building a Course on the Run - Michael Coghlan (Dec. 2002)

Building Success for E-Learners (Part 1) ("...how to successfully implement five success factors that create success for e-learners...") - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, Jul 2003)

      Motivating Online Learners (Part 2) - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, Aug. 2003)

      Creating Collaboration (Part 3) - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, Sep. 2003)

      Managing the Synchronous Blend (Part 4) - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, Oct. 2003)

      Technology Impact on E-Learning - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, Nov. 2003)

      Be An Active and Participative Instructor - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, Dec. 2003)

Building Virtual Language Learning Communities - John H. Steele (14 Nov. 2002)

Can Web-based Knowledge Sharing Tools Improve the Learning Process in an MBA Consulting Class? - Nory B. Jones and Mark Rice (THE Journal, Apr. 2000)

Case Methods for Online Learning ("Case analysis is a popular teaching strategy in higher education, particularly in professional degree programs such as business, social work, education, medicine, law, and policy studies. This strategy allows students to apply ideas, theories, and concepts to realistic problem-solving situations. In a virtual classroom, the world is just a click away. Because the online learning environment and the online world of professional life overlap, instructors have new opportunities to engage students. This tutorial will examine how guiding students through the analysis of case studies can enhance online learning...") - Janet Salmons (eLearn Magazine)

Case Study: Exploring Students and Instructor's Perceptions and Interactions in Online Classes ("This case study explores instructor and learner perceptions and attitudes toward interaction in online courses... Analysis of data reveals that although perceptions regarding interaction varied among all interviewed, all participants agreed the level of interactivity was at least adequate for learning") - Noppadol Prammanee (Learning Technology, Oct. 2002)

Classroom Discussions for the Twenty-first Century ("...we devised an experiment to test our thesis: that a moderated discussion forum would impact student writing. Our findings supported our initial belief - a moderated discussion forum does have a positive effect on student writing abilities. This article will explain what we did and what we discovered.") - Beth DePasquale and Tom Miller (techLearning, 1 Aug. 2002)

Classrooms or E-Learning, Instructors Remain Central - Tom Kelly & Nader Najiani (CLO, Nov. 2004)

Cognitive Styles and Distance Education - Yuliang Liu and Dean Ginther (OJDLA, Fall 1999)

Collaborative Learning (includes Techniques, Stories from teachers, Resources. . .)

Collaborative Learning in an Online Environment ("The study described in this article researched the process of collaborative learning that occurred when postgraduate students studying a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program used computer-mediated communication (CMC) as a means of small-group and large-group communication. It reports a largely qualitative study of groups of students learning collaboratively while living remotely from their university campus. The main objective of the research was to observe and document the effects of the use of the computer-mediated group conferences on the group interaction of the students and to record their use and perceptions of the effects of the use of computer-mediated communication in their learning process.") - Elizabeth Stacey (Journal of Distance Education, 1999)

Collision Between F2F & Online Discussion (...This essay takes the position that social exchanges of self-disclosure in online environments are not only different from face-to-face experiences, but that the benefits and drawbacks are reversed.) - Dean Pape (techLEARNING, 1 Dec. 2004)

Communication dynamics: Discussion boards, weblogs and the development of communities of inquiry in online learning environments ("...the degree to which a successful community of inquiry can be facilitated through the use of discussion boards is examined and compared to the possibilities afforded by weblogs in the same role. Weblogs, it is argued, offer new opportunities in the development of social, cognitive and teacher presence online and should be considered in the development of or alongside established OLEs.") - James Farmer (ASCILITE 2004)

Comunidades de Aprendizagem On-line e o Ensino de Línguas (in Portuguese) - Kátia Cristina do Amaral Tavares (Out. 2001)

Constructivism, Technology, and the Future of Classroom Learning - Erik F. Strommen and Bruce Lincoln

Crosscultural Communication Online - The Webheads Community (Aug. 2002)

Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Online Collaboration ("This study investigated two interconnected conferences formed by students and instructors from two different cultures—Finland and the United States—to discuss case situations or problems in school observations,in order to examine cross-cultural differences in online collaborative behaviors among undergraduate preservice teachers. . .") - Kyong-Jee Kim and Curtis J. Bonk (JCMC, Oct. 2002)

Definitions of e-learning - Compiled by Julie Coultas, Rose Luckin and Ben du Boulay (IDEAS Lab, Human Centred Technology Group) (May 2004)

Demistifying the Digital Divide - Mark Warschauer (Scientific American, Aug. 2003)

Designing for the Virtual Interactive Classroom ("...Most of us experience more satisfying interactions when we can see and hear each other in the same space and at the same time. While online interactions support flexibility and convenience, synchronicity provides for more efficient and natural interaction. It is more spontaneous, with more richness of communication information. Answers can be immediate (and not be misspelled!); questions can be clarified; and decisions requiring multiple conversational loops can be arrived at quickly...") - Judith V. Boettcher (Campus Technology, May 2005)

Kolabora's Tools ("The Kolabora's Tools page showcases all of the best collaboration and conferencing and live presentation technologies that offer an immediate access, free-trial or download of their tools. From here you can directly try-out and review any of the best tools available in the market.")

Robin Good's Official Guide to Web Conferencing and Live Presentation Tools (updated May 2005)

Design of Net-learning Systems Based on Experiential Learning ("The theory of experiential learning is briefly reviewed and a model of the learning process is presented. The paper then discusses and characterizes a virtual learning environment and its relationship to experiential learning and learning styles. An approach for designing virtual learning environments is presented taking into account the technology for learning. A prototype for a virtual learning environment designed and built by the author and known as LeProf is then discussed. . ." - Juan R. Pimentel (JALN, 1999)

Development of Training and Support Programs for Distance Education Instructors - Melanie Clay (OJDLA, Fall 1999)

Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education - David F. Noble (First Monday, 1998)

Distance Education: An Overview - Barry Willis (2003)

Distance Education: Are We Being Realistic? - Diana Oblinger and Jill Kidwell (EDUCAUSE review, May/june 2000)

Distance Learning and Synchronous Interaction ("In this article, I review the benefits and disadvantages of diverse synchronous tools, with an ultimate emphasis on application sharing and voiceover IP (VOIP) as the most advantageous and promising combination for educators in the future") - Joel Foreman (The Technology Source, Jul.-Aug. 2003)

Distributed collaborative teaching and learning in a groupware environment ("Using FLE2 groupware (Future Learning Environment 2) we have tried to integrate a distance education course into the regular academic programme at Roskilde University, Denmark. The course was offered jointly by two universities, attracting students and involving teachers from both institutions. The course was evaluated by an external consultant. The practical and pedagogical problems encountered are discussed, and it is suggested that while net-based teaching may be suitable only under certain circumstances in a normal academic programme, skills of communicating and working in an online environment are important qualifications that should be introduced broadly into academic life.") - Simon B. Heilesen, Mia C. Thomsen and Robin Cheesman (2002)

      Computer Support for Knowledge-Building Communities ("In this article we focus on educational ideas and enabling technology for knowledge-building discourse. The conceptual bases of computer-supported intentional learning environments (CSILE) come from research on intentional learning, process aspects of expertise, and discourse in knowledge-building communities. These bases combine to support the following propositions: Schools need to be restructured as communities in which the construction of knowledge is supported as a collective goal, and the role of educational technology should be to replace classroom discourse patterns with those having more immediate and natural extensions to knowledge-building communities outside school walls. CSILE is described as a means for reframing classroom discourse to support knowledge building in ways extensible to out-of-school knowledge-advancing enterprises. Some of the most fundamental problems are logistic, and it is in solving these logistic problems that we see the greatest potential for educational technology...") - Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter (The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 1994)

      FLE2: Future Learning Environment2 ("Fle2 is a web-based groupware for computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). Fle2 has been designed to support collaborative knowledge building and progressive inquiry."; UAD, Finland)

            euro-cscl.org ("This web site serves as a community site and resource of information for practitioners (teachers), researchers and school administrators in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) field. Here you can find news and best practices from CSCL community, links to CSCL research, information about CSCL software tools and have discussions with other members of the community...")

            ITCOLE: Innovative Technology for Collaborative Learning and Knowledge Building

      Introduction to FLE2 Pedagogy ("Fle2 is design to support problem based learning (PBL) and inquiry learning. Fle2 help students and teachers to engage in co-ordinated efforts to solve problems and build knowledge together. Process of the study course using the Fle2 should follow the following module of progressive inquiry.")- H. Muukkonen et al., 2000)

      Supporting Problem-Based Learning in Groups in a Net Environment ("...In this paper we seek to identify ways of supporting PBL in groups in a net environment. This exercise is based upon four years of continually refining the conversion of pedagogical principles from face-to-face teaching at Roskilde University to Open University activities using WWW technology. In this process we have been looking for a software concept that could help implement our ideas by supporting students and teachers in their efforts....") - Robin Cheesman and Simon B. Heilesen (Dec. 1999)

Does Using Technology in Instruction Enhance Learning? - Ed Neal (Jun. 1998)

Downloading the classroom: a look at online courses - Jinah Kim (The Tufts Daily, 4 Nov. 2004)

Education by Engagement and Construction: Can Distance Learning be better than Face-toFace? - Ben Schneiderman (Apr. 1994)

Education Reform and Technology A Short WebTour ("This article is a tour through the Internet with a focus on understanding educational reform in a technology rich world..." - includes numerous links to topic-related websites) - Margaret Riel (techLearning, 1 Apr. 1997)

Effective Online Instruction (presentation) - Sunil Hazari (1999)

Eight Ways to Get Students More Engaged in Online Conferences - W. R. Klemm (THE Journal, Aug. 1998)

E-Learner Competencies - P. Daniel Birch (Learning Circuits, Jul. 2002)

E-learning: emerging issues and key trends. A discussion paper ("The purpose of this short paper is to provide a view of the state of e-learning, issues and implications for the use of technology mediated and delivered instruction in the vocational education and training (VET) sector in particular... considers issues and developments of a technical, organisational and pedagogical nature that are likely to generate change in the use of technologies in education and training. The paper offers a view of the driving forces for e-learning, an historical context for its development...") - John Eklund, Margaret Kay and Helen M. Lynch (Flexible Learning, 25 Sep. 2003)

E-Learning: The Fabled Aladdin's Lamp? - Paula Horta (Polifonia 7, 2004)

Elements of an Effective Internet Video Conference - Yvonne Marie Andres

Elements of Group Interaction in a Real-Time Synchronous Online Learning-By-Doing Classroom Without F2F Participation ("Editor’s Note: This is a thoughtful in-depth study of interactivity in online learning. It attempts to link theory to practice and use successful practice to generate theory and valid research data. The investigators studied models of online learning and observed that online interactions are parallel and face-to-face interactions are serial. They attest to the value of collaborative online learning and propose the concept of a “privacy zone.”) - Mia Lobel, Michael Neubauer and Randy Swedburg (USDLA Journal, Apr. 2002)

The Teaching Moment: a learning metaphor ("...What seems to be missing is twofold: what are participants saying and how are they saying it? How is the learning task accomplished, and how are the group’s dynamics facilitated to allow the learning to unfold? This paper is an attempt to make transparent the process of experientially constructing knowledge in a real-time eClassroom, which has been described in Lobel, Neubauer, & Swedburg (2002)..." - Mia Lobel, Michael Neubauer and Randy Swedburg (USDLA Journal, Nov. 2002)

The eClassroom used as a Teacher's Training Laboratory to Measure the Impact of Group Facilitation on Attending, Participation, Interaction, and Involvement ("This paper describes and quantifies the role of group facilitation in an experiential, real-time, online, university level credit course entitled eAHSC/230 Interpersonal Communications and Relations. A new and unique group interaction pattern called parallel communication, as well as classical elements of group interaction are described and quantified. New measures of online group facilitation attributes with analogous face-to-face (F2F) counterparts are presented. Specifically, the impact of effective group facilitation on Attentiveness, on Interaction, on Involvement, and on Participation is explored. The paper also examines the eClassrom’s potential effectiveness as a real time teaching and training laboratory which also functions as a process observation tool that collects and feeds back interaction data, providing teachers and trainers immediate and ongoing measures of facilitation effectiveness") - Mia Lobel, Michael Neubauer and Randy Swedburg (IRRODL, Oct. 2002)

Emerging Models of Online Collaborative Learning: Can Distance Enhance Quality? ("In this essay, we suggest that most instructors, administrators and software developers are missing major opportunities because they assume that online collaboration among students must follow the same forms as traditional interaction in face-to-face classrooms.  Yet, dating back to the 1970s, a few educators and software developers have been pioneering far more imaginative ways of helping students learn with one another in virtual space; they have been multiplying the advantages of extended access with the strengths of enriched learning environments.") - Stephen C. Ehrmann and Mauri Collins (TLT Group, Sep. 2001)

Engagement Theory: A framework for technology-based teaching and learning - Greg Kearsley & Ben Shneiderman (May 1999)

Estándares y Especificaciones de E-learning: Ordenando el Desorden - Eduardo Hernández (May 2003)

Experience-Enabling Design: An approach to elearning design ("This paper draws inspiration from diverse media to understand what constitutes experience. In doing so, it seeks directions for building experience into design of elearning products...") - L. Ravi Krishnan and Venkatesh Rajamanickam (Global Conference on Excellence in Education and Training, Singapore: 28 May 2004)

Facilitating Interaction in Computer-Mediated Online Courses ("...First we will give a brief introduction to computer conferencing, somewhat generically and look at both the advantages and the disadvantages of the various "flavors" of computer conferencing. You have to know your tools before you can use them. We will then look at interaction in online learning environments, the changing roles of teachers and students and the role of the online conference tutor/moderator/facilitator. This paper concludes with an extensive bibliography.") - Mauri Collins and Zane Berge (Sep. 1996)

Facilitation: the Anti-Lecture - Kaarin Record (techLEARNING, 1 Dec. 2004)

Faculty Use of Course Management Systems (Key Findings) - Glenda Morgan (ECAR, May 2003)

Five Web-Based Training Perils - and How to Avoid Them - Kevin Kruse (Learning Circuits, Mar. 2000)

Flexibility and Interaction at a Distance: A Mixed-Mode Environment for Language Learning ("This article reports on the process of design and development of two language courses for university students at beginning levels of competence. . .") - Antonella Strambi and Eric Bouvet (LL&T, Sep. 2003)

From Classic to Electronic Quescussion ("Quescussion is a questioning technique which bans the use of non-questions altogether, thereby challenging the usual relationship between student and teacher and among students themselves... Quescussion is a simple and enjoyable teaching technique which encourages participation and creativity...") - Truls Ostbye & Paul M. Biswell

From Large Lectures to Online Modules and Discussion: Issues in the Development of Online Teacher Education ("In this article, we consider issues in the development of online teacher education based on our experience in replacing large lectures with online modules and discussion. We suggest that the successful development and implementation of online education require two major commitments: one to improve the educational experience for students, and another to encourage close cooperation. . .") - George Gadanidis and Sharon Rich (The Technology Source, Jul.-Aug. 2003)

Game-Based Learning: How to Delight and Instruct in the 21st Century ("...how videogames (arguably one of the most sophisticated forms of information technology to date) are influencing higher education...

We discussed the following six topics:

• The dysfunctions of conventional instruction

• The power of simulations

• The importance of game-based learning communities

• The reasons videogames promise a better learning future

• The changes necessary for the new paradigm to take hold

• The practical steps that colleges/universities and influential academics can take to move institutions down the trail blazed by USC and others.") - Joel Foreman (EDUCAUSE Review, Sep-Oct. 2004)

Games, not school, are teaching kids to think ("...when kids play videogames they can experience a much more powerful form of learning than when they're in the classroom. Learning isn't about memorizing isolated facts. It's about connecting and manipulating them...") - James Paul Gee (Wired, May 2003)

Gathering and Using Quality-of-Student: Experience Data on Distance Education Courses - Margaret Rangecroft, Peter Gilroy, Tony Tricker and Peter Long (Journal of Distance Education, 2002)

Getting Teachers through the Online Gates - Michael Coghlan (Feb. 2001)

Guest Lecturers in the Online Environment: Part 1 - Virgil E. Varvel Jr. (ION, Jul-Aug. 2001)

Guest Lecturers in the Online Environment: Part 2 - Virgil E. Varvel Jr. (ION, Sep-Oct. 2001)

Herding Cats: Building Virtual Language Learning Communities (presentation) - John H. Steele (Oct. 2002)

How Interactive are YOUR Distance Courses? A Rubric for Assessing Interaction in Distance Learning - M. D. Roblyer and Leticia Ekhaml (Jun. 2000)

How to Set up an Internet Course with Free Tools - Anson Chong (2002)

Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever ("Since the Seven Principles of Good Practice were created in 1987, new communication and information technologies have become major resources for teaching and learning in higher education. If the power of the new technologies is to be fully realized, they should be employed in ways consistent with the Seven Principles. Such technologies are tools with multiple capabilities...") - Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann (updated Oct. 2003)

Implementing Virtual Learning Environments: Looking for Holistic Approach (". . .We summarise here major issues and questions on the implementation of VLEs in traditional educational institutions. These concerns and pending issues have been defined primarily on the basis of nine European case studies. We start by the findings and pending issues on "What are VLEs?", we look into "To whom" they are addressed and what questions have to be dealt with there. Next we deal with "Why" implement VLEs and we finish with the issues concerned with "How" to implement VLEs") - Mario Barajas and Martin Owen (ET&S, 2000)

Implications of Web-Based Technology for Engaging Students in a Learning Society - A. J. Turgeon

Improving Student Performance in Distance Learning Courses - Judy A. Serwatka (THE Journal, Apr. 2002)

Influence of Non-Moderated and Moderated Discussion Sites on Student Success - Deborah A. Kashy et al. (JALN, Feb. 2003)

Informal Learning - the other 80% - Jay Cross (Internet Time Group, Draft, 8 May 2003)

Information is not Instruction! - Kevin Kruse (Learning Circuits, Feb. 2000)

Initial Description of SIG-Organizational ("Most current developments in the use of modern technologies in education are, unfortunately, little more than mere transpositions to a new environment of the much criticised paradigms of the past...") - António Dias de Figueiredo (1998)

Innovation in Collaborative E-Learning (WorkBook) - Janet Salmons (Vision2Lead, 2004)

Innovations in Online Learning: Moving Beyond No Significant Difference ("... this presentation will discuss how IT can be used to surpass traditional modes of instruction") - Carol A. Twigg (Educause Conference, 2002)

In Practice... ("I am at the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative conference to take part in a panel discussion titled Learner-Centered by Practice: Applying What We Know About Learning and Cognition in Designing for the Online Environment. With me were the panel moderator Helen Knibb, David Merrill from Utah State University, and Lynette Gillis, a consultant with Learning Designs Online. Like most quality panels, these members pushed some of my thinking into new directions. And I think as a result we need to restate clearly what we mean by learner centered learning. So - what do we know about learning?...") - Stephen Downes (28 Jan. 2002)

Instructional Development for Distance Education - Barry Willis (2003)

Integrating Internet-Based Reading Materials into the Foreign Language Curriculum: From Teacher- to Student-Centered Approaches ("Whereas many educators enthusiastically embrace the use of Internet-based reading materials, little theoretical and empirical research exists that demonstrates how to make use of such practices in a sound pedagogical way. This article provides guidance to teachers and curriculum developers by describing three approaches to integrating Internet-based reading materials into a foreign language curriculum...") - Klaus Brandl (LL&T, Sep. 2002)

Interactive Language Learning on the Web ("...This digest discusses some of the advantages and challenges for teachers who want to design their own interactive Web-based language learning activities, describes some of the activities produced by language teachers that are already available on the Web, and provides guidelines and resources to help teachers create Web-based activities of their own.") - Sally Morrison, ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics (CAL, Dec. 2002)

Introduction to TAPPED IN: An Online Community for Learning and Teaching - Keiko Schneider (2001)

Interact! With Online Learning - James Kirk (Learning Circuits, Jan. 2001)

Interaction Options for Learning in the Virtual Classroom - Terry Anderson (1999)

Interactive and Multimedia Techniques in Online Language Lessons: A Sampler (". . .The lessons featured were chosen for their quality, the variety of technical features, range of pedagogical techniques, and selection of languages taught.") - Jean W. LeLoup and Robert Ponterio (LL&T, Sep03)

Interactive Videoconferencing in Distance Education - Barry Willis (2003)

Introducing MUVEES: Multi-User Virtual Environment Experiential Simulator ("MUVEES are an engaging way to study classroom-based situated learning and the ways in which virtual environments may aid the transfer of learning from classroom contexts into real world settings...")

It's a Learner-Centered World! - Karen Mantyla (Learning Circuits, Jun. 2000)

Keeping Online Asynchronous Discussions on Topic ("The purpose of this research was to identify various techniques recommended and used by online instructors for keeping online learners on topic during asynchronous discussion and to identify what factors affected selection.  A thirty-seven item online questionnaire was developed and completed by 135 online instructors subscribing to an international distance education listserv. . ." - Bart P. Beaudin (JALN, 1999)

Langues étrangères, nouvelles technologies et formation des enseignants (in French) - Jean Michel Chaupart (2003)

Learner Contributions to Knowledge, Community, and Learning - Beverly Hunter and John Richards (last updated 4 Apr. 2003)

Learner Support Services for Online Students: Scaffolding for Success - Stacey Ludwig-Hardman and Joanna C. Dunlap (IRRODL, Apr. 2003)

Learning and Teaching in Cyberspace - Greg Kearsley (2000)

Learning Circles: Virtual Communities for Elementary and Secondary Schools - Margaret Riel (1993)

Learning Environments ("There is real danger in trying to build academic on-line environment or virtual university by imitating the structure of a  traditional university...") - NKN 2002

Learning Environments and Pedagogy ("The LTSN Generic Centre has formed a group to look at learning environments and pedagogy (LEAP).  We have commissioned 14 case studies from 7 Universities which will look at how different pedagogies are being employed across different virtual learning environments (VLEs)- namely BlackBoard, WebCT and Lotus Notes.")

Learning in Communities - Stephen Downes (AFLC, 4 Mar. 2004)

Learning Management Systems (LMS) & Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) - E-Learning an Enterprise Application? ("Lets look at what a Learning Management System is and what a Learning Content Management System is. How are they different? How do they complement each other?") - Paul Stacey (E-Learning, 26 Oct. 2001)

Learning Managment Systems: Are We There Yet? ("The LMS has reached maturity but is racing to keep up with changing requirements on campus and to meet the need for integration with other enterprise systems and a more collaborative working environment. . . Syllabus asked the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s vice president for research in information technology about his vision for learning management systems and related technologies.") (Campus Technology, 7 Jan. 2004)

Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning ("Learning Management Systems (LMS) are often viewed as being the starting point (or critical component) of any elearning or blended learning program. This perspective is valid from a management and control standpoint, but antithetical to the way in which most people learn today...") - George Siemens (elearnspace, 22 Nov. 2004)

Learning Styles and the Internet (strategies from existing online courses that cater for various learning styles) - Marie Jasinski

Lessons a Foreign Student Learned from an Online Course ("...During the first four weeks of intensive practices of building and facilitating online community, I learned some important lessons on how to become a good online instructor from my own experience as a student and from the observations of my instructor's teaching practices.") - Chaohui Wang (tecLEARNING, 1 Dec. 2004)

Lessons in Launching Web-based Graduate Courses - Stanley L. Kroder, Jayne Suess and David Sachs (THE Journal, May 1998)

Leveraging Student Feedback to Improving Teaching in Web-based Courses - Sunil Hazari and Donna Schno (THE Journal, Jun. 1999)

Looking Beyond Course Development Tools: Faculty Training Issues - Sunil Hazari and Ellen Yu Borkowski (2001)

Magic or Realism? Transforming learning styles into design features in net-based education ("Advantages in comparing net-based education to traditional teacher lead learning are recognized. However, in the hype of “e-learning”, the real needs of users/learners are not given sufficient attention. The present article points to the importance of developing net-based education in accordance with principles for user-centered design. The purpose is to demonstrate the use of learner-centered design in accommodating users with different types of learning styles. This article gives an account of a theory of learning styles and it goes on to show how different learning styles may be transformed into design features.") - Carl Eneroth (Learning Technology, Jul. 2001)

Making the Transition: Helping Teachers to Teach Online - Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt

Matching Content to Delivery? Remember the Basics! - Lisa L. Collins (Learning Circuits, Dec. 2000)

(My) Three Principles of Effective Online Pedagogy - Bill Pelz (JALN, Jun. 2004)

Needed: Creative Teaching & Commitment - Phillip D. Long (EDUCAUSE Review, May-June 2002)

Negotiation of Meaning and Codeswitching in Online Tandems (". . .The prime objective of the study was to give those students who participated in the online exchanges a chance to meet with native speakers of their target language in real time and to investigate if the concept of tandem learning as promoted by initiatives like the International Tandem Network could be successfully transferred from e-mail-based discourse to a format in which the learners could interact with each other in real time over a computer network. . .") - Markus Kötter (LL&T, May 2003)

New roles for Educators ("...Though teachers have always been learners, instructional designers and entrepreneurs, technology tools have added new twists to these traditional roles, providing many new opportunities for leadership and for teachers to also become "producers of knowledge."") - Margaret Johnson (MFF, 4 Feb 2000)

Old Concerns with New Distance Education Research - Barbara Lockee, Mike Moore, and John Burton (Educause Quarterly, 2001)

Online Collaborative Learning in Higher Education (Online Articles: "a bibliography of some important papers about online collaborative learning which have been published online and are available in full free of charge") - Joanne McInnerney and Tim Roberts (2003)

Online Communication - Mark Warschauer (2001)

Online communication tools that facilitate interaction of participants in a virtual community and their role in language learning (ppt) - Teresa Almeida d'Eça (TESOL, Mar. 2003)

Online Communication Tools that Promote Language Learning and Foster Professional Development - Teresa Almeida d'Eça (Polifonia 7, 2004)

Online Debate: A Case Study Combining Traditional Strategy and Online Technology ("...In this article, an online debate is examined in terms of limited communication methods and suggestions are provided for designing an online debate.") - Shawn M. Love (IJIT&DL, Sep. 2004)

Online Learning in Second Language Classrooms: An Ethnographic Study - Mark Warschauer (2000)

Online Learning in Sociocultural Context - Mark Warschauer (A&EQ, 1998)

Online Learning: Social Interaction and the Creation of a Sense of Community ("This paper centres on the sense of isolation that online study may engender among learners... The authors suggest three protocols that can be built into the fabric of online courses in order that a sense of community may be enabled to exist, and productive social interaction can occur... The paper concludes by suggesting that by creating an online sense of ‘self’, the participants of an online course can alleviate feelings of isolation, and create an online community that assists the learning process.") - Joanne M. McInnerney and Tim S. Roberts (Educational Technology & Society, 2004)

Online Pedagogies for Active Learning ("... I thought it might be interesting to explore pedagogical alternatives to lecture and presentation - approaches that reinsert the "human" back in to the learning equation...") - Paul Stacey (E-Learning, 17 Oct. 2003)

Online Professional Development in Support of Online Teaching: Some Issues for Practice ("...The study therefore generated feedback from a self-selected interest group about (a) their beliefs about teaching online and its place within the higher education system, (b) their reasons for choosing to engage in this medium as both a teacher and a learner, (c) their experiences of learning online as part of a professional development course, and (d) the ways in which their experiences of learning online might feed back into their practices for teaching online.") - Karah Hogarth, Ingrid Day and Drew Dawson (IJIT&DL, Sep. 2004)

Online Teaching: Panacea or Problem - Teresa De Fazio

Online Tutoring e-Book - Carol A. Higgison (ed.)

Opportunities in Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) Classroom Environments ("This study explores opportunities that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers have created to help students meet English language literacy goals in technology enhanced language learning (TELL) classroom environments. This qualitative study examines opportunities in two TELL classroom environments based on interviews, observation, and document collection for two months...") - Hee-Jung Jung and Sang Hyun Kim (TEwT, Oct. 2004)

Overcoming Barriers to Distance Training and Education ("When people within an organization plan for using distance training and education, there are several barriers to their efforts that they are likely to encounter. Consideration of barriers faced by other organizations may help leaders find solutions to reduce or to minimize obstacles in their own organization. Using a content analysis of thirty-two, in-depth case studies of leading organizations, this study begins to explore solutions to the barriers faced by organizations when they use distance education.") - Soomyung Kim Cho and Zane L. Berge (USDLA Journal, 2002)

Participation and Critical Thinking in Online University Distance Education - Mark Bullen (Journal of Distance Education, 1998)

Planning and Managing the Development of Courses for Distance Delivery: Results from a Qualitative Study - W. Dean Care and Judith M. Scanlan (OJDLA, Summer 2001)

Preparing Learners for Online Learning - George M. Piskurich (2002)

Professional Development: The Electronic Village Online of the TESOL CALL Interest Section - Elizabeth Hanson-Smith and Christine Bauer-Ramazani (TESL-EJ, Sep. 2004)

Promoting Online Interaction in Today's Colleges and Universities - Brent Muirhead (USDLA Journal, Jul. 2002)

Q & A with Diana Laurillard - interview by Lisa Neal (Diana Laurillard is Head of the E-learning Strategy Unit at the Department for Education and Skills in the U.K.)

Quality in e-Learning (ppt) - Dafne González (Tesol, Mar. 2003)

Quality on the Line: Benchmarks for Success in Internet-Based Distance Education - The Institute for Higher Education Policy (Apr. 2000)

Realizing Constructivist Objectives Through Collaborative Technologies: Threaded Discussions ("... This paper presents a situated study -- based on a prominent pedagogical framework -- of the implementation of threaded discussions, a widely used instructional technology, to meet constructivist curricular objectives in university ESL classes....") - Donald Weasenforth, Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas and Christine Meloni (LL&T, Sep. 2002)

Real-time audio and email for fluency: promoting distance language learners' aural and oral skills via the Internet (pdf - click on p. 55) - Markus Kötter, Lesley Shield and Anne Stevens (ReCALL, 1999)

Relationships on the Line - Joan Cashion and Phoebe Palmieri (2000)

Re-learning through e-learning: Changing conceptions of teaching through online experience ("...This paper draws on recent literature on reflective practice principles of online learning and teaching to explore experiences from those who have been on both sides - online educators and online students... The findings can inform how educators can provide engaging and empowering online teaching and learning environments that move beyond traditional 'comfort zones' and established pedagogies.") - Reem Al-Mahmood and Catherine McLoughlin (ASCILITE, 2004)

Removing Barriers to Professional Development ("...The research results were used to create a model for bridging course development and professional development. The collaborative model is geared toward the hesitant technology user, and allows for individualized support and continuing education opportunities. This model also proposes a framework for instructors to learn actively while they are developing an online course, and to apply new knowledge and skills to immediate course development tasks.") - Lynn Feist (The Journal, Jun. 2003)

Research Insights into Interactivity ("Interactivity research studies involving online classes reveal that students value their opportunities to communicate with their peers and instructors. The author will briefly highlight student expectations for their online classes, discuss important findings from interaction studies and recommend several instructional ideas to enhance the quality of interaction in today’s distance education classes.") - Brent Muirhead (ITDL, Mar. 2004)

Rethinking Learner Support: the challenge of collaborative online learning - Mary Thorpe (Nov. 2001)

Roles and Competencies of Online Teachers - Vera Queiroz and Pollyana N. Mustaro (I-TESL-J, Jul. 2003)

Scaffolding: A model for learner support in an online teaching environment - Catherine McLoughlin and Linda Marschall (2000)

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (reprinted with permission) - Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson (1987)

      Related links

      9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning (AAHE Assessment Forum)

      A "Teacher's Dozen" ("...So, what exactly do we know about learning that might be useful to college teachers? My response is the "teacher's dozen" referred to in the title. It's my own list of fourteen principles of effective higher learning that are well supported by research. My "teacher's dozen" isn't meant to be definitive or exhaustive. It's simply one college teacher's current list of solid principles to teach by...") - Thomas Anthony Angelo (1993)

      Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever ("Since the Seven Principles of Good Practice were created in 1987, new communication and information technologies have become major resources for teaching and learning in higher education. If the power of the new technologies is to be fully realized, they should be employed in ways consistent with the Seven Principles. Such technologies are tools with multiple capabilities...") - Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann (updated Oct. 2003)

      Principles for Good Practice in Education

      Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education: Implementation Ideas - Ted Panitz

      Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses - Charles Graham et al. (West Valley College, last revised Nov. 2001)

      The Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education: A Historical Perspective - Zelda F. Gamson

      Training and Active Learning - Don Clark (May 2000)

      Why 7 Principles? ("...Task force members agreed that the 7 Principles of Good Practice... have successfully stood the test of time and provide the foundation to high quality distance delivery methods... OLN has also updated its Principles of Good Practice document to incite more emphasis on the 7 Principles in projects receiving OLN grant funds... In addition, as you can see, the web pages for teaching faculty have been redesigned using the 7 Principles as anchor...") - OLN: Ohio Learning Network

Shaping Cyberspace into Human Space - Linda Harasim (Sep. 1994)

Situating the Zone of Proximal Development ("Social constructivist theory has advanced the notion that distance education is inferior, because effective learning is thought to require immersion in a cognitive apprenticeship under the guidance of a mentor. Effective learning is said to be situated in activity, context, and culture as a collaboration in a community of practice. Administrators and practitioners in distance education are confronted with a challenge to the efficacy of their endeavors. The authors briefly trace the evolution of social constructivism, the influence of Piaget and Vygotsky, and analyze the effects of contemporary social constructivism with implications for instructional theory and practice.") - George E. Marsh and John J. Ketterer (OJDLA, Summer 2005)

Six Factors to Consider when Planning Online Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education - Suzanne Levy (OJDLA, Spring 2003)

Sizing the Opportunity: The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the United State, 2002 and 2003 ("While there is now some statistical information available on distance education at higher education institutions in the United States, very few if any research surveys have focused on online education. The 2003 Sloan Survey of Online Learning was designed to find answers to some key questions related specifically to online education delivered by higher education institutions in the United States...") - The Sloan Consortium (Sep. 2003)

Social Dimensions of Telecollaborative Foreign Language Study (". . .I explore socio-institutional dimensions of German-American telecollaboration and the ways in which they may shape foreign language learning and use. . . I intertwine the socially and institutionally contingent features of language valuation, computer know-how, Internet access, and learning accreditation and the micro-level features of situated classroom interaction and individual psycho-biography in order to provide a rich and multi-faceted characterization of foreign language learning and use on both ends of a German-American telecollaborative partnership" - Julie A. Belz (LL&T, Jan. 2002)

Sounding off ("...There’s a danger with broadband that we do unnecessary things just because we can, but in the case of audio there do seem to be plenty of strong arguments in its favour...") - Clive Shepherd (Above&Beyond, Dec. 2004)

So you want to teach online - Michael Coghlan (Apr. 2001)

Spinning yarns around the digital fire: Storytelling and dialogue among youth on the Internet - David Huffaker (First Monday, Jan. 2004) 

Strategies for Building Blended Learning (business oriented) - Allison Rossett et al. (Learning Circuits, Jun. 2003)

Strategies for Collaborative Learning: Building e-Learning and Blanded Learning Communities ("...Our goal here is twofold. First we will cut through the ambiguous term "community" by sharing a model that describes a number of practical applications for including community as part of your learning strategy. Second, we will outline specific strategies and approaches for building learning-focused communities.") - Soren Kaplan (2002)

Strategies for Learning at a Distance - Barry Willis (2003)

Strategies for Teaching at a Distance - Barry Willis (2003)

Students and Faculty Respond to Online Distance Courses at Grant MacEwan Community College - Cheryl White (THE Journal, Apr. 2000)

Successful Online Teaching Using an Asynchronous Learner Discussion Forum (". . .General observations related to these categories [Faculty Feedback, Learner Discussions and Course Requirements] were presented followed by several tips for successful teaching in an online environment using an asynchronous learner discussion forum. . .") - Mark H. Rossman (JALN, Nov. 1999)

Supporting Collaborative Learning in Asynchronous Learning Networks ("...the most important elements for an ALN learning environment to support collaborative learning relate to the "social construction" of an interaction environment, consisting of appropriate expectations and norms of interaction...") - Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Raquel Benbunan-Fich (1997)

Taking discussion online ("Online discussion allows students to interact with classmates outside class. An online discussion is not fixed in time or space: students can log on at any time from any Internet-enabled computer to seek clarification for issues they encounter in their coursework, to discuss topics raised in class, or to initiate new discussions on related topics...") - Sarah Horton (last updated 8 Sep. 2003)

Tangled Up in Blue: The Web of Resistance to Technology and Theory - Dona J. Hickey (Academic Writing, 26 Mar. 2000)

Teaching as Coaching: Helping Students in a Technological World ("...the most dramatic change is not even at our doors yet: it is our future students, those elementary and middle-school kids who have always had computers in their lives and who will enter our classrooms with expectations that will dwarf the technological capabilities we have today.") - Newton Smith (EDUCAUSE Review, May-Jun. 2002)

Teaching on the Net: What's the Difference? Sheryl Burgstahler (THE Journal. Apr. 1997)

Technologies of Online Learning (E-Learning) ("an examination of some of the most exciting technologies and features used in online instruction today, and those we may use tomorrow. Education is one of the fastestgrowing economic and social sectors in the world, and the use of new technologies is an integral and driving component of that growth") - Rory McGreal & Michael Elliott (In Theory and Practice of Online Learning; Summer 2003)

Technology and Second Language Teaching - Mark Warschauer and Carla Meskill (2000)

Technology in the Classroom: Practice and Promise in the 21st Century - Elizabeth Hanson-Smith (TESOL, 2001)

Technology Tools for Today's Campuses ("collection of 72 articles, presented in seven sections, includes important and useful information that you can use in deciding if you want to use such tools as listservs, e-mail, the World Wide Web (WWW), or multi-user domains (MUDs) in your teaching") - James L. Morrison, ed. (May, 1997)

Ten Great Tips for Facilitating Virtual Learning Teams ("This paper presents tips for educators who would like to successfully integrate and facilitate virtual learning teams within their on-line courses. The techniques are grounded in current research and the theoretical foundations of systems theory and group dynamics. Tips emphasize facilitation of virtual learning teams assembled for the purpose of formal education who are supported by computer-mediated communication tools.") - Margaret L. West and Lara Luetkehans (PSS Corp, Aug. 1998)

The Bad Training Blues - Kevin Kruse (Learning Circuits, Sep. 2000)

The Death of Cyberspace and the Rebirth of CALL ("... the significance of online communication lies not in its separation from the real world, but rather in how it is impacting nearly every single aspect of the real world...") - Mark Warschauer (English Teacher's Journal, 2000)

The Effects of Internet-based Instruction on Student Learning (". . .In many instances the change to an Internet-based delivery system has been instituted with little or no consideration of the impact on student learning. This paper presents data from a two-semester study of the effects of distance learning on student achievement as well as the impact of distance learning on student attitudes concerning their learning experiences. . ." - Scott B. Wegner, Ken C. Holloway and Edwin M. Garton (JALN, 1999)

The Embodiment of the online learner ("This paper seeks to establish a theoretical context by which we might begin to understand the issue of embodiment in the online classroom, a theoretical context anchored in a discussion of the accounts given by students and tutors of their experiences in online learning environments.") - Siân Bayne (ASCILITE Conference, 2004)

The Experience Designer: Learning, Networks and the Cybersphere ("...an invitation to the reader to engage in an innovative system of thinking that explores, invents, imagines, probes, provokes, and builds ideas about e-Learning. The thoughts in this book are a collage of critical, creative, hopeful, and skeptical probes that are coordinated into a new system of thought and a new vision for e-Learning.") - Brian Alger (2002)

The Fifth Utility and Learning Styles (how learning styles can be applied in designing online courses; for ESL/EFL teachers) - Michael Coghlan (Oct. 1998)

The Information-Age Mindset: Changes in Students and Implications for Higher Education - Jason L. Frand (EDUCAUSE Review, Sep-Oct. 2000)

The Interactive Syllabus: A Resource-based, Constructivist Approach to Learning ("Sylvie Richards describes how an interactive syllabus can prompt students to engage with course material in adaptive ways. She first distinguishes between two different models for the interactive syllabus: a sequential form ideal for the sciences and a nonlinear form ideal for the humanities. . . then shows how such an online resource can employ multiple media and communication tools to address a variety of learning styles and to promote a more multi-dimensional experience for students. . ." - Discussion Forum) - Sylvie L. F. Richards (The Technology Source, Jul.-Aug. 2003)

Presentation on which the above paper is based: The Interactive Syllabus: A Resource-based, Constructivist Approach to Learning (includes all the examples of interactive syllabi)- Sylvie L. F. Richards

The Life and Times of an E-Trainer - Lesley Darling (Learning Circuits, May 2000)

The Old Teacher in the New Classroom: Suggestions for effective distance instruction - Karen Hardin (1998)

The Online Classroom ("...In this discussion, we will be focusing on asynchronous online courses. That is, those classes that are accessed at any time, from any computer with an Internet connection. These classes do not require that all students be online at the same time, but allow students to read (or watch) and respond as convenient.") - Candice Kramer (PBS Campus, 6 Dec. 2003)

Theory and Practice of Network-Based Language Teaching (a chapter from a book edited by both writers) - Richard Kern & Mark Warschauer (2000)

Theory and Practice of Online Learning (a book online) - Terry Anderson & Fathi Elloumi

The People-Process-Product Continuum in E-Learning: The E-Leaning P3 Model ("...In this article, I discuss the stages of the e-learning process in terms of people responsible for providing various e-learning and blended learning products...") - Badrul H. Khan (Educational Technology, Sep.-Oct. 2004)

The Role of the Online Instructor/Facilitator - Zane L. Berge (1996)

The Study of Distance Education by Distance Education ("...The questions this study sought to address include (a) who the distance education graduate programs are that have emerged to provide academic preparation and leadership in distance education, (b) what some of the characteristics of these programs are, and (c) whether or not the growth in the academic discipline of distance education is keeping pace with growth in the distance education industry.") - Nathan K. Lindsay and Scott L. Howell (IJIT&DL, Sep. 2004)

The Teacher as Interface - Teachers of EFL in ICT-rich environments: Beliefs, Practices, Appropriation - Andreas Lund (PhD thesis, Sep. 2003)

The Titanic, Volkswagens and collaborative group work: Remaking old favourites with new learning technologies - Colin Baskin (AJET, 2001)

The use of computers in the assessment of student learning - Nora Mogey and Helen Watt

The Virtual Classroom: Shaping new Approaches to workplace learning ("...A central tenet of newer sociocultural learning paradigms is collective meaning making. Exploring the collective meaning making that unfolds in an e-learning experience may provide insight into what influence contemporary sociocultural research has on the design and use of e-learning technologies. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore what happens in one workplace virtual synchronous classroom (VSC) event and examine factors that influence collective meaning making from the perspective of key stakeholders: the learner, the adult educator, and the software developer.") - Terrie Lynn Thompson (CADE Conference, 2003)

The Virtual Professor: A Personal Case Study - Greg Kearsley (Oct. 1997)

Three Criticisms of the Online Classroom: An examination of a higher education online course in computer-mediated communication ("Technological expertise, access to technology, additional time associated with participation, and the changing role of the instructor a just a few of the many issues the online classroom has changed (and often times inhibited) the ways students learn...") - Jannifer A. Minotti (Learning Technology, Oct. 2002)

Tools for Distance Education: Towards Convergence and Integration ("Interest in the remote delivery of language instruction has increased significantly in recent years. As the Internet has displaced synchronous video as the preferred platform for distance education, the dramatically lower cost and more modest technical requirements of Web delivery make it a feasible option for a much broader range of educational institutions. . .") - Bob Godwin-Jones (LL&T, Sep. 2003)

Understanding Participation in Online Courses: A Case Study of Perceptions of Online Interaction - Noppadol Prammanee (Mar. 2003)

Untangling a Tangled Web: An Overview of Web-based Instruction Programs (includes Serf, TopClass, Convene, FirstClass, Learning Space, WebCT) - Scott Fredrickson (THE Journal, Jun. 1999)

Using a Web-Based Course Management Tool to Support Face-to-Face Instruction - Nada Dabbaqh (The Technology Source, Mar.-Apr. 2002)

Using Technology to Enhance a Course: The Importance of Interaction - Thomas J. Keefe (EDUCAUSE Quarterly, (1) 2003)

Using the World Wide Web to Enhance Classroom Instruction - Norman Mathew and Maryanne Dohery-Poirier (First Monday, Feb. 2000)

Using the World Wide Web to Integrate Spanish Language and Culture: A Pilot Study ("This pilot study investigates the potential role of Internet resources as a means to gain a deeper sense of the culture of the Spanish-speaking world for college students... Data collected demonstrate that the Web is a suitable tool to increase language and cultural knowledge, as well as a means to increase motivation. Pedagogical implications are discussed." - Maritza M. Osuna and Carla Meskill (LL&T, Jan. 1998)

Virtual Learning Community: Training Staff & Volunteers (Audio presentation) - Janet Salmons (Vision2Learn, 2003)

      Virtual Learning Community - Training Staff & Volunteers (Workbook) - Janet Salmons (Vision2Learn, 2003)

      Webliography

Virtual Teaching in Higher Education: The new Intellectual Superhighway or just another Traffic Jam? - Jerald G. Schutte (1996)

Webcasting - Paul Stacey (E-Learning, 4 Jun. 2004)

Web-Enhanced Lecture Course Scores Big with Students and Faculty - Brad Stith (THE Journal, Mar. 2000)

What do we mean by Blended e-Learning? ("...The blending of several communication modes gives students more flexibility in terms of the modes in which they can communicate with their fellow students and lecturer...") - University of Sussex

What is Blended Learning? ("Blended learning is not new. The concept is grounded in the idea that learning is a continuous process occurring inside and outside the classroom. In short, “blended learning” intermingles multiple learning strategies or methods with a variety of media. In contemporary terms, learning strategies and media typically include aspects of face-to-face instruction and online (or distance) learning, in combination with a rich variety of learning strategies or dimensions. Other often-used terms that describe blended learning include e-learning, blended technologies, and hybrid teaching...."; includes links to many articles) (Penn State Commonwealth College, 2004)

What Makes Students Stay? - Bridget Murray (eLearn Magazine, 12 Oct. 2001)

What Works in Blended Learning ("While blended learning isn’t a new concept, many organizations are innovatively combining electronic delivery with other media to do more with less... Here's an overview of how blended learning is being used to create tremendous value for organizations worldwide and highlight major lessons learned from these 16 major programs.") - Josh Bersin (Learning Circuits, Jul. 2003)

Working laterally: how innovation networks make an education epidemic ("Helping students to learn better is on everybody’s agenda, and there are many different views about how this is best achieved. David Hargreaves argues that schools will be transformed only when teachers embrace the ‘hacker ethic’ – a passion for developing new practice and a readiness to share the results freely with colleagues through innovation networks.") - David H. Hargreaves (2003)

Why Johnny Won't Post ("Why do some students resist participating in course discussion boards when they know their grade will suffer? How can students with polished social skills come across in online courses as uncooperative and unengaged, with short postings of little substance? What causes this? Can it be fixed?") - Tim Dotson (Aug. 2003)

Working in Groups - A note to faculty and a quick guide for students (Harvard University)

Writing for Webheads: An online writing course utilizing synchronous chat and student web pages - Vance Stevens (Apr. 1999)

Written Interaction: A Key Component in Online Learning - Judith C. Lapadat (JCMC, Jul. 2002)

9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning (AAHE)

Assessing Learning Objectives Bloom's Taxonomy (ION, 2003)

Assessment Glossary of Terms

Assessment in Higher Education ("This is a web site devoted to world's best practice in student assessment in higher education, and related topics: here you'll find links to online articles, books, journals, and other relevant information...") - Central Queensland University

Assessment Mechanisms (a serious of links organized by the University of New Hampshire)

Assessment Primer (FLAG)

Assessment & Rubric Information (a collection of links) - compiled by Kathy Schrock (Discovery School)

Assessment Web Resources (University of Scranton)

Assessments in Instructional Technology - a collection of links compiled by Bill Vilberg and Lin Harper

Cheating in Online Assessment: Beyond Plagiarism ("...The prevention of plagiarism has been the subject of much attention, but insufficient attention has been given to other problems of dishonesty in online assessment. We survey the types of problems that can occur and what can be done about them...") - Neil C. Rowe (OJDLA, Summer 2004)

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) - Field-tested Learning Assessment - FLAG

Portfolios ("Student portfolios are a collection of evidence, prepared by the student and evaluated by the faculty member, to demonstrate mastery, comprehension, application, and synthesis of a given set of concepts") - Timothy F. Slater

Scoring Rubrics ("Rubrics provide a readily accessible way of communicating and developing our goals with students and the criteria we use to discern how well students have reached them") - Diane Ebert-May

Student Assessment Learning Gains ("... an on-line instrument that provides information about the specific gains that students perceive they have made in any aspects of a course that instructors have identified as important to their learning...") - Elaine Seymour, Douglas Wiese & Anne-Barrie Hunter

Evaluation for Distance Educators - Barry Willis (2003)

Online Classroom Assessment (pres.) - Michael W. Lindeman (ION)

Sample Rubric (ION, 2003)

The Art of Assessing - Phil Race (1995)

Web Based Assessment (a collection of links compiled by Sunil Hazari)

Anatomy of an Online Course - Linda Cooper (THE Journal, Feb. 1999)

Another New Paradigm for Instructional Design - Reuben Tozman (Learning Circuits, Nov. 2004)

Classification of DE delivery systems ("... The report compares a series of CMS packages in terms of their range of features, and in relation to their satisfaction of international online education standards.") - Diane Belyk, Jeremy Schubert & Jon Baggaley (Jan. 2002)

Collaborative Learning Using Online Tools - @One, California Community Colleges (2000)

Course Design (ITC, Univ. of Tennessee)

Course Management Systems (edutools: "This site reviews each product by researching and describing more than 40 product features. . . [and] allows you to step through a number of processes to consider all the aspects of a course management system")

Course Management Systems (CMS) - John Meerts (EDUCAUSE, 20 Oct. 2003)

Course Management Systems and the Reinvention of Instruction ("...In this article, we will argue that university teachers approach the use of the CMS with a pre-existing “mental model” of how the technology should be used and that this mental model then constrains how the teachers use it, thereby using technology to reinforce traditional teaching styles. We will further dispute that there are at least two distinct mental models to account for these approaches, each with a different goal for how to use the CMS...") - Craig Ullman and Mitchell Rabinowitz (THE Journal, Oct. 2004)

Criteria for Evaluating the Quality of Online Courses - Clayton R. Wright

Designing for learning: What are the essential features of an effective online course? ("How do online courses differ from traditional university courses? What are the new learning demands made on students in online courses? Which particular design features optimise the teaching and learning process in an online delivery mode?. . .") - Allison Brown (AJET, 1997)

Different pedagogical uses of VLEs with different learner groups ("This case study reviews the impact of Blackboard on teaching and learning at Kingston College, and describes the development of a model for applying the VLE in different curriculum areas." - Andrew Williams (Ferl First, 15 Apr. 2004)

Evaluation and Selection of Web Course Management Tools - Sunil Hazari (1998)

Evaluation of Blackboard Course Tool (abstract + link to complete report) - Sunil Hazari (2002)

Evaluating Virtual/Managed Learning Environments (Ferl)

First Year French - University of Texas at Austin

Full Distance Course Basic Format - Continuing Teacher Education, University of Western Ontario

Fully Featured vs. Lean-and-Mean? ("With students in an “Educational Conferencing” graduate course, a comparison was conducted between the merits of an online collaborative package containing a wide range of features and alternative conferencing software containing only a threaded discussion and search feature only. The responses of fourteen students taking part in the study revealed a clear preference for the simpler approach...") - John Baggaley (IRRODL, Apr. 2002)

How to evaluate a content management system - James Robertson (KM, Jan. 2002)

How to Go From Classroom Based to Online Delivery in Eighteen Months or Less: A Case Study in Online - Jane W. Gibson and Jorge M. Herrera (THE Journal, Jan. 1999)

ICT focussing on MLE/VLEs ("This curriculum project brought together a number of practicing educationalists to undertake a study into VLEs. The outcome has been highly commendable. The group has made a valuable contribution to the FE sector by reviewing a number of the VLE platforms and exploring the wider organisational issues relating to their implementation.")

Innovating Instruction ("a variety of interactive programs that help teachers to inspire their students...") - Teaching Matters

Integrating the Internet in the Classroom - Michael Krauss

Kolabora's Tools ("The Kolabora's Tools page showcases all of the best collaboration and conferencing and live presentation technologies that offer an immediate access, free-trial or download of their tools. From here you can directly try-out and review any of the best tools available in the market.")

Match Teaching Strategies and Tools - CIT, UNC-CH

Models of Online Courses ("I  propose a rather simple framework within which to consider the very wide range of existing online courses. The mystification surrounding the term "online course" arises because it is used indiscriminately to apply to nearly any course which makes even a passing use of the Internet, as well as to those where every aspect of the course is only accessible electronically. . . I think it is useful to begin to define the online educational world if only for others to redefine for themselves") - Robin Mason (ALN Magazine, Oct. 1998)

Moodle ("Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses..... One of the main advantages of Moodle over other systems is a strong grounding in social constructionist pedagogy. . . Moodle is Open Source software, which means you are free to download it, use it, modify it...".)

Moodle: A Virtual Learning Environment for the Rest of Us - Tom Robb (TESL-EJ, Sep. 2004)

Moodle 'manual' - Martin Dougiamas

Moodle meanderings (pros & cons)

Moodle Teacher Manual - Matt Riordan

Using Moodle Virtual Learning Environment Software ("This report describes one lecturer’s experience using Moodle, an example of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) software, to deliver online learning. It covers recent practice in using intranet websites for delivering resources within Penwith College, and shows how the VLE approach offers an interactive, richer learning experience...") - Andy Diament (2004)

MVCR - Making the Virtual Classroom a Reality (an online training series for online educators)

Online Course Caps: A Survey - Boris Vilic (Syllabus, Jul. 2004)

Online Course Development: What Does it Cost? - Judith V. Boettcher (Syllabus, Jul. 2004)

Open Source Course Management Systems (a list of products, notes and reviews compiled by Scott Leslie, edtechpost/edutools)

Robin Good's Official Guide to Web Conferencing and Live Presentation Tools (updated May 2005)

Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses - Charles Graham et al. (The Technology Source, Mar.-Apr. 2001)

Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice (how WebCT can help address these teaching and learning goals)

So, what is a content management system? - James Robretson (KM, 3 Jun. 2003)

Teaching in the One Computer Classroom - Mary Lou McCloskey and Emily Thrush

Teaching with the 'Net (syllabus)

The CMS Lifecycle (KM)

The Sociality of Information Technologies - Lucy Suchmann (Lancaster University, 2002)

Tools for Developing Interactive Academic Web Courses: Evaluation (Learn Space, Top Class, WebCT, Tool Book) - The University of Manitoba

VLE Comparison Grid (last updated 8 Dec. 2003)

Web-Based Training Information Center (WBTIC) ("a free information resource for anyone interested in developing and delivering online learning. Here you will find articles about Web-based training and industry trends...")

Web Course Evaluation Questionnaire - Paul Biner, Ball State University

WebCT Communication Hubs (presentation) - Michael Coghlan (Apr. 2001)

WebCT Tour

World Lecture Hall

Humanizing Learning-At-Distance ("The heuristic study was an exploration of how twenty synchronous online instructors fostered successful e- learning experiences for the whole-person. The resulting set of eight instructional principles may be used to guide successful synchronous learning experiences...") - Kathleen Barclay (2001)

8 Ways to Get Students More Engaged in Online Conferences (A Blackboard Tip Sheet) - W. R. Klemm

10 Tips to Optimize your E-Learning - Beth Archibald Tang (Learning Circuits, Nov. 2000)

A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Projects - Sheila Offman Gersh (techLEARNING, 15 Nov. 2004)

A Guide to Online Education ("The purpose of this Guide is to introduce some of the basic characteristics of online education. It is intended for students or teachers who are new to this domain and looking for some suggestions and advice about how to make it a more enjoyable and worthwhile endeavor...") - Greg Kearsley (1998)

A Quick-Start Guide to Getting Online (basic requirements for getting started with online study)

A Teacher's Guide to Distance Learning - Ann Barron (1999)

An Instructor's Guide to Live E-Learning - Christine L. Duckworth (Learning Circuits, July 2001)

Avoiding Online Discussion Pitfalls (San Francisco State University)

Be an Active and Participative Instructor - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, 5 Dec. 2003)

Collaborative Learning: The Art of Letting Go (Suggestions, Websites, Books & Articles)

Creating Online Courses: A Step-by-Step Guide - William R. Klemm (The Technology Source, May/Jun. 2001)

Dealing with Resistant Teachers (quick tips) - Barbara Bray (techLEARNING, 10 Dec. 2004)

Develop a Telecollaboration (tips and reminders)

Distance Learning: A Step-by-Step Guide for Trainers (a media selection matrix)

Effectively Using Electronic Conferencing (Do's and Don'ts)

Electronic Collaboration: A Practical Guide for Educators - a joint production of LAB, NSN and TEECH, 1999

Facilitating Every Student in an Online Course - Virgil E. Varvel Jr. (ION, Mar.-Apr. 2001)

Facilitating Online Learning - Michael Coghlan (1999)

Getting Ready to Teach Online - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, Feb. 2001)

Guiding Change for the Awareness Stage (quick tips) - Barbara Bray (techLEARNING, 7 Dec. 2004)

Guiding Change for the Informational Stage (quick tips) - Barbara Bray (techLEARNING, 14 Dec. 2004)

Handbook for Instructors on the Use of Electronic Class Discussion - prepared by Nancy Chism 

Hints for Learning Online - University of Guelph Learners Resources (1998)

How to Be an E-Learner - Nuala Sweeney (Learning Circuits, May 2001)

How to develop an Online Course - Priya Williams

      7 Quick steps to developing an online course - Priya Williams

      10 Tips for online course development - Priya Williams

      Development Process (an interactive tutorial)

How to Keep Online Students Motivated - Kate Butler (AFLC, May 2003)

How to Succeed in Distance Learning Courses (1997)

Humanizing Learning-At-Distance: Fostering Successful Synchronous Learning - Kathleen Barclay (2001)

Introduction to Distance Learning

Key Elements of an Online Program (ION, 2003)

Key Factors in Synchronous Delivery - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, Feb. 2000)

Making Synchronous Training a Success (though these do's and don'ts are meant for organizations, there are many useful hints for a purely educational institution) - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, Jan. 2000)

Online Learning (How to get the most out of your online learning experience) - San Diego State University

Online Response Time - Patricia Phillips-Batoma (ION, Aug. 2000)

Online Teaching Tips - Karla Embleton

Reducing Online Cheating - Karla Embleton (Nov. 2002)

Stave Off these Seven Pitfalls of Distance Learning - Moises Sheinberg (Learning Circuits, Apr. 2000)

Synchronous Exercises from Scratch - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, May 2001)

Synchronous Team Teaching: Put your Heads Together - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, Nov. 2001)

Techniques for Designing and Delivering an Online Course (San Francisco State University)

Technologies - WBTIC

The Pros and Cons of Distance Learning

The Role of Student and Teacher in the Online Classroom - Leslie Bowman (May 2001)

Tips for Communicating in an Electronic Environment - Aina G. Irbe (Learning Circuits, Feb. 2002)

Tips for Interactive Electronic Communication - Donna Reiss (Jul. 2000)

Tips on Shaping a Virtual Learning Space - Linda Harasim et al. (Sep. 1994)

Trouble in Paradise - L. Harasim (Sep. 1994)

Tips for Online Learning - Jeff Hunter (AFLC, Dec. 2002)

Tips for Online Success (for students) - (ION, 2003)

Tips for Training Online Instructors - Greg Kearsley (2001)

What Distance Learners Should Know About Instructional Technology

What Makes a Successful Online Facilitator? (ION, 2003)

What Makes a Successful Online Student? (ION, 2003)

Why Computer Conferencing? - Linda Harasim (Sep. 1994)

Working in Goups (on or offline)

A Developmental Perspective on Technology in Language Education - Mark Warschauer (2002)

Bridging the Technology Proficiency Gap through Peer Mentoring ("...This project was a formal peer mentoring relationship strictly for the acquisition of curricular-driven technology integration skills.... This case study provided evidence that teachers who previously did not integrate technology changed their methodology to include this new tool. As they did this, they began to see the value in technology as it brought students to new and higher levels of learning.") - Frank Rudnesky (techLEARNING, 1 Nov. 2004)

Computer Support for Knowledge-Building Communities ("... In this article we offer a suggestion for how to escape the pattern of reinventing the familiar with educational technology. Knowledge-building discourse is at the heart of the superior education that we have in mind. We argue that the classroom needs to foster transformational thought, on the part of both students and teachers, and that the best way to do this is to replace classroom-bred discourse patterns with those having more immediate and natural extensions to the real world...") - Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter (1994)

Electronic Networks and Science Education ("...it has been found that teachers and students develop new instructional strategies and classroom organization when participating in telecommunication projects. A wide variety of telecommunication projects are explained including tele-apprenticeships, problem solving, and scientific investigations....") - Rita Hagevik (Meridian, Summer 2000)

Expert and Novice Teachers Talking Technology: Precepts, Concepts, and Misconcepts ("... This study compares and contrasts the "technology talk" of novice and expert teachers of K-8 language and literacy (ESOL). Interview data with eight teachers... serve to illustrate the conceptual and practical differences between those who have adapted technologies as powerful teaching and learning tools and teachers who, in spite of specific formal training in instructional technology, speak about it and its application in starkly contrasting ways...") - Carla Meskill, Jonathan Mossop, Stephen DiAngelo, and Rosalie K. Pasquale (LL&T, Sep. 2002)

How People Learn (and What Technology Might Have to do with it) ("... technology integration in schools is not easy to achieve, no matter how much evidence we have that it can help learning. It's also important to integrate technology appropriately...") - Marcy P. Driscoll (ERIC, Oct. 2002)

How to Overcome Technology Integration Barriers - Peter J. Dragula (techLEARNING, 1 Apr. 2005)

Observations, Reflections & Research of a Laptop Classroom - Marian Cmapbell & Jerry Woodbridge (techLEARNING, 1 Jul. 2004)

Seeing is Believing - Technology Integration in Practice (GLEF)

Teacher Use of Computer and the Internet in Public Schools (NCES, Apr. 2000)

Technology as Cognitive Tools: Learners as Designers - David H. Jonassen (1994)

The Impact of CALL Instruction on Classroom Computer Use: A Foundation for Rethinking Technology in Teacher Education ("This purpose of this study is to examine how language teachers apply practical experiences from computer-assisted language learning (CALL) coursework to their teaching. It also examines ways in which teachers continue their CALL professional development...") - Joy Egbert, Trena M. Paulus and Yoko Nakamichi (LL&T, Sep. 2002)

Web Research: Ten Tips for the Techno-Challenged ("...10 craft secrets that can boost you into the ranks of the supersearchers...") - Michael Simkins (techLEARNING, 15 Jun. 2005)

When CALL was Uncharted Territory - Claire Bradin Siskin (Essential Teacher, Winter 2004)

Learning with mobile devices: research and development - a book of papers edited by Jill Atewell and Carol Savill-Smith (2004)

Avoiding Plagiarism (UC Davis, last modified 25 Oct. 2001)

Beating Cheating Online: Preventing Plagiarism and Cheating in Online Courses (ION, 1999)

Curbing Academic Dishonesty in Online Courses - Mike McNett (ION, May-Jun. 2002)

e-cheating: Combating a 21st Century Challenge - Kim McMurtry (THE Journal, Nov. 2001)

Perennial Plagiarism (article with links to articles on the topic) - Graeme Daniel and Kevon Cox (Web Tools Newsletter, 7 Jul. 2003)

Plagiarism (a collection of links maintained by the University of Maryland's University College Center for Intellectual Property)

Plagiarism (a collection of links) - Sharon Stoerger

Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism - Heyward Ehrlich (Mar.2000)

Plagiarism: Detecting, Preventing, and Understanding (UNC, 2002)

Strategies to Minimize Cheating Online (ION, 2003)

Technology and Plagiarism in the University: Brief Report of a Trial in Detecting Cheating - Diane Johnson et al. (AACE Journal, 2004)

What is Plagiarism? (Georgetown University Honor Council, 1999)

WWW.2Cheat.Com - Clay D. Rooks

Online Project-Based Learning ("... students meet curriculum standards through research, data collection and interpretation, shared writing, and other activities, but they often learn valuable collaboration skills, as well as cultural awareness...")

Resources for International Projects (techLEARNING)

Which Online Project is Right for Me? (includes links to many "recommended projects") - Rosemary Shaw (techLEARNING, 1 Oct. 2004)

Best of Australian Flexible Learning Community (2001-2004)

Characteristics of Quality in Distance Education (links to articles)

Collaborating (links to 10 articles on different aspects of collaborative learning)

Collaborative Learning (Vision2Lead)

Collaborative Learning 2004 Evolving Webliography (Vision2Lead)

Distance Learning: articles & resources

Guidelines for Educational Uses of Networks ("a rich variety of guidelines of how to use networks in powerful ways for education") - compiled by Jim Levin

Instructional Design for Online Learning ("a collection of favorite websites to connect you to further links, provide you with some ideas and help you narrow down a search") - compiled by Bernie Poole and Mandi Axmann

Integrating Technology Across the Curriculum (includes links to email, chat and distance learning) - compiled by Michael Krauss

Internet Time Blog ("E-Learning Information & FAQ") - Jay Cross

Library Support for Distance Learning (links to distance education organizations, websites, articles, and policies) - compiled and maintained by Bernie Sloan and Sharon Stoerger (last updated Apr. 2003)

Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning (OTEL)

On-line Collaboration Papers (a collection of links) - compiled by Bill Klemm

Online Communities and Online Learning Resources - compiled by Michael O'Conner (2000)

Online Learning Publications - compiled by WBTIC

Online Resources for Teams and Virtual Teams (Vision2Lead)

Resource Guides: Subject Listing - CIT, UNC-CH

Role and Skills of the Online Tutor (e-Learning Centre)

Some Models for Online ESL Teaching and Learning - Compiled by Vance Stevens

Teaching and Learning on the Internet - Compiled by Mark Ryder (last verified 1 Jul. 2005)

Teaching and Learning with Technology ("a listing of many resources and documentation that can assist you in teaching and learning with technology") - compiled by Susan Peck (2001)

Telecollaboration: Developing Intercultural Language Learning through On-Line Exchanges (a collection of resources compiled by Robert O'Dowd)

Vision2Lead

What it is to be an online learner Library ("links to resources that take a look at what it is to be an online learner - from both a learner and tutor perspective.  Listed in order of entry with the most recent first.")

Wandering the Web Column Archive - Christine Meloni

A traditional setting or a distance learning program? (6 questions to determine the best learning environment for you)

Are distance-learning courses for me? (CIL, 2001)

Are Distance Learning Courses for You?

Components of Technology Literacy for Foreign Language Instructors - Kazumi Hatasa (1998)

Distance Learning Assessment (Thomson / Peterson's)

Is Distance Learning for Me?

Just How Ready Are You for Distance Learning?

Self-assessment (10 questions to determine if distance learning is right for you)

Online Collaborative Tools: evaluation reports

Classification of DE delivery systems (CMS) - Diane Belyk, Jeremy Schubert & Jon Baggaley (Jan. 2002)

DIALANG - Project & System

UC Berkeley Extension Online Sample Classroom

Using your Voice Online (Yahoo Messenger and Wimba) - Michael Coghlan

WebCT Learner Guide (version 3.6 of WebCT)

Assessing Social Presence in Asynchronous Text-Based Computer Conferencing ("... Social presence is defined as the ability of learners to project themselves socially and affectively into a community of inquiry. Social presence is defined as the ability of learners to project themselves socially and affectively into a community of inquiry...) - Liam Rourke et al. (Journal of Distance Education, 1999)

Collaborative Learning in an Online Environment (a study) - Elizabeth Stacey (Journal of Distance Education, 1999)

CMC and Webheads: Hand in Hand in Education without Borders - Aiden Yeh (TESOL, Mar. 2003)

Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) for Teaching and Learning in the Chinese Context - George C. K. Jor

Computer-Mediated Communication: Its Pedagogical Aspects and Considerations ("... how best to teach language using the synchronous mode of communication. Pair-work, small group and whole class discussions were studied for this purpose. The study shows that students preferred small group discussions as they were more interesting and stimulating than the other two modes of communication...") - Rozina A. Ghani and Nuraihan M. Daud (IATEFL, Apr. 2003)

Eight Ways to Get Students More Engaged in On-Line Conferences - Bill Klemm (TCC '98)

Finding your Voice Online-An Inquiry into the Use of Online Voice Applications in Higher Education ("... This article is the result of a six month enquiry into the use of online voice tools. It does not pretend to be exhaustive, and I recognize that there may be a great many excellent voice tools for education that are not mentioned here. It does attempt to give an overview of what types of tools are available, and describe how they are being used in learning environments.") - Michael Coghlan (Knowledge Tree e-Journal, 2004)

Free Voicemail Services (table with features)

Indicators of Support in Online Interaction - Patrick J. Fahy (IRRODL, Apr. 2003)

Instructional Design Principles for Teaching in Computer Conferencing Environments - W. R. Klemm and J. R. Snell (1995)

Intercultural Computer-Mediated Communication - Néstor G. Trillo (CMC Magazine, Jan. 1997)

Intercultural Computer-Mediated Communication (ICCMC) - William B. Hart (Fall 1998)

Learning Online: Choosing the Best Computer-mediated Communication Activities - Ishbel Galloway & Douglas O'Brien (TLT, Feb. 1998)

MJ's CMC & collaboration tools (A collection of resources) - Maria Jordano

New Dimensions in Computer-Conference Teaching, Using the Structured Logic of "FORUM" - Bill Klemm

Notes on Defining of Computer-Mediated Communication - John December (CMC Magazine, Jan. 1997)

Online Communication - Mark Warschauer (2001)

Options for Internet Collaboration - Bill Klemm

Participation in Computer Mediated Curriculum ("The overall purpose of this research project was to explore the nature of student participation in a Computer Mediated Curriculum (CMC) course... The author compared female and male patterns of written communication using a linguistic framework that was developed under the assumption that people’s needs are reflected in their patterns of speech... and concluded that females were able to meet their needs more consistently over the thirteen-week courses than males, and that males were able to adjust their communication style to become more empathetic. The author discussed implications of the findings for school administrators whose schools either plan to, or currently, support CMC courses...") - Tom Gougeon (IEJLL, Sep. 2002)

"Reflective Conversation" in the Virtual Language Classroom ("... Is conscious reflection, in fact, still necessary in a more interactive learning environment? We argue here that it is, and that a challenge is facing the developers of the virtual language classroom to combine the processes of conscious reflection with those of spontaneous interaction. In our view, the medium of asynchronous conferencing is particularly well suited to such a combination as it is flexible with regard to place and pace, and able to support both monologue- and conversation-like forms of written language exchange...") - Marie-Noëlle Lamy and Robin Goodfellow (LL&T, 

The Effect of E-Mail Messages on Student Participation in the Asynchronous On-Line Course: A Research Note - Marc D. Miller and Ken Corley (OJDLA, Fall 2001)

The Online Report on Pedagogical Techniques for Computer-Mediated Communication - Morten Flate Paulsen (1995)

The TextWeaver: Active Reading Hypertext for Computer Conferencing - Andrew Feenberg (2000)

Towards an Effective Use of Audio Conferencing in Dsitance Language Courses ("In order to respond to learners' need for more flexible speaking opportunities and to overcome the geographical challenge of students spread over the United Kingdom and continental Western Europe, the Open University recently introduced Internet-based, real-time audio conferencing, thus making a groundbreaking move in the distance learning and teaching of languages... The findings of this paper highlight the complexity of the organisational as well as the pedagogical framework that contributes to the effective use of online tuition via audio conferencing systems in a distance education setting.") - Regine Hampel and Mirkam Hauck (LL&T, Jan. 2004)

Use and Adaptation of Written Language to the Conditions of Computer-Mediated Communication (abstract and concluding chapter of this doctoral dissertation) - Ylva Härd af Segerstad (2002)

What is CMC? - John December (a definition)

What is CMC? - Peter J. Murray (CMC Magazine, Jan. 1997)

What is CMC? An Overview of Scholarly Definitions - Pixy Ferris (CMC Magazine, Jan. 1997)

What is Computer-Mediated Communication? - Gerry Santoro

34: Growing Virtual Communities ("...This report stresses that an efficient technology is only part of the process underlying a successful online community. It considers the social process on which an online learning community must be founded if it is to flourish and be useful. Definitions of community, learning community, and virtual learning community are reviewed, and the experience of an online community member is discussed. The importance of nurturing the community’s health, and the natural life cycle of a virtual community, are examined.") - Debbie Garber (IRRODL, Aug. 2004)

An Online Learning Community: The students' perspective - Michael Coghlan and Vance Stevens (Mar. 2000)

Assessing the Impact of a Large-Scale Online Teacher Professional Development Community - Judi Fusco, Hunter Gehlbach and Mark Schlager

A visit with Webheads Online Community of Practice for Learners & Teachers - Vance Stevens & Ismail Fayed (EgypTesol, Dec. 2002)

Body language without the body: situating social cues in the virtual world ("...I will outline how social cues are embodied in the physical world and show ways that such cues are emerging in today's virtual world.") - Judith S. Donath (n.d.)

Building an Online Learning Community (tips)

Building Online Communities - chromatic (O'Reilly Network, 21 Oct. 2002)

Building Online Communities for Professional Development (presentation) - Teresa Almeida d'Eça (18th APPI Conference, 29 Apr. 2004)

Building Sense of Community at a Distance ("This article challenges the belief that strong sense of community is limited to the traditional classroom and proposes that the virtual classroom has the potential of building and sustaining sense of community at levels that are comparable to the traditional classroom. . .") - Alfred P. Rovai (IRRODL, Apr. 2002)

Building Virtual Communities for Professional Development - Ferdi Serim (May, 1996)

Building Your Online Community ("...Fear that the online commitment will be a solitary one frightens many potential distance learners. If this is a concern you share, it may cheer you to learn that most online learners do not experience a lack of contact at all, just contact in a different form. Distance learning does require commitment and the ability to study independently, but so does any educational endeavor. As many have found, being online does not mean being alone. These learners have made the most of all options available to them to assure their success....") - Candice Kramer (PBS Campus Reviews, 6 Jun. 2004)

Communities of practice ("...In this article we outline the theory and practice of such communities, and examine some of issues and questions for informal educators and those concerned with lifelong learning.") - Mark K. Smith (the encyclopedia of informal education, last updated 30 Jan. 2005)

Communities of practice: a brief introduction ("...This brief and general introduction examines what communities of practice are and why researchers and practitioners in so many different contexts find them useful as an approach to knowing and learning.") - Etienne Wenger

Communities of Practice: learning, meaning, and identity (Executive summary of the book) - Etienne Wenger (last updated Aug. 2002)

Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier (excerpt from the article) - Etienne Wenger and William M. Snyder (22 Feb. 2000)

Community of Practice Resources (a partially annotated list of references) - Elizabeth Hanson-Smith (9Feb. 2005)

Community Development Among Distance Learners: Temporal and Technological Dimensions ("This paper explores social support and community development among members of a computer-supported distance learning program...Overall, our interviews show that belonging to a community brings benefits to the individuals and to the program, and supports efforts by educators who strive to provide such a community for their distance learners.") - Caroline Haythornthwaite, Michelle M. Kazmer, Jennifer Robins and Susan Shoemaker (JCMC, Sep. 2000)

Cooperative Cultures in Sociotechnical Communities - Nini Ebeltoft and Susanne Nyrop (2001)

CoP Theory Overview (a diagram) - Christopher M. Johnson (2003)

      Distributed CoPs and other Virtual Communities (a diagram) - Christopher M. Johnson (2003)

      Evolution of Community of Practice Theory (a diagram) - Christopher M. Johnson (2003)

      Glossary of CoPs (based on Christopher M. Johnson'd diagrams (Compiled by Teresa Almeida d'Eça, 2003)

      Organizational Comparison of CoPs (a diagram) - Christopher M. Johnson

CoPs (a series of links to related sites)

Creating Technology-Supported Learning Communities - David Jonassen, Kyle Peck and Brent Wilson (1999)

Cultivating communities of practice: a quick start-up guide - Etienne Wenger (2002)

Developing a Community in Online Language Learning ("This paper reports on an experiment in community development online which had been in progress for almost two years at the time of its presentation at the international professional conference held at the MLI in Abu Dhabi in May, 2000...") - Vance Stevens (3-4 May 2000)

Educational MUVEs: Virtual Learning Communities ("Virtual Learning Communities (VLCs) differ from Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) because the very nature of “community” holds greater meaning and potential than “environment”.") - Jeff Cooper

Enabling Distributed Learning Communities Via Emerging Technologies - Part One ("Emerging devices, tools, media and virtual environments offer opportunities for creating new types of learning communities for students and teachers. Examples of learning communities include a national mix of kids working together to create an online encyclopedia about Harry Potter’s fictional world, or groups of mentor and novice teachers in Milwaukee sharing ideas about effective instruction...") - Chris Dede (THE Journal, Sep. 2004)

Enabling Distributed Learning Communities Via Emerging Technologies - Part Two ("...an alternative type of distributed learning community - this time based on possible applications of wireless mobile devices to create experiences outside of school that motivate and aid students in developing 21st century skills and knowledge (Partnership for 21st Century Skills 2003). Interfaces for “ubiquitous computing” involve portable wireless devices infusing virtual resources as we move through the real world...") - Chris Dede (THE Journal, Oct. 2004)

Establishing an Online Community of Practice for Instructors of English for Specific Purposes - Christopher M. Johnson (July 2001)

Establishing Community in a Virtual Classroom ("... Creating a sense of community within a virtual classroom is an ongoing challenge for instructors of on-line classes... To meet this challenge the instructor must connect with the students, must help the students connect with each other, must facilitate students in connecting to the learning process through the use of available technology, and must provide a variety of ways for students to connect with the instructor...") - Judith Killion (TCC Conference, 1997)

Evolution of an On-Line Education Community of Practice - Mark S. Schlager, Judith Fusco and Patricia Schank

Herding Cats: A Descriptive Case Study of a Virtual Lnaguage Learning Community (presentation) - John H. Steele (5 Apr. 2002)

In Defense of Online Learning (and Veggie Burgers) - Michael Feldstein (eLearn Magazine)

Online Communities and the Secret Sauce ("... E-learning (K-12, post-secondary, and corporate) over the past few years has been almost exclusively focused on formal learning - online courses, modules, and units that are tested and marked. Missing has been attention to the social/cultural aspects of learning...") - Paul Stacey (E-Learning, 13 Jun. 2003)

Online Communities: Networks that nurture long-distance relationships and local ties (a report) - John B. Horrigan and Lee Rainie (Pew Internet)

Online Community Building: How and What for? ("A Power Point presentation based on the community of practice Webheads in Action and the ongoing training workshop Becoming a Webhead.") - Teresa Almeida d'Eça (19 Feb. 2004)

Online Learning Communities ("While a great deal of attention is currently being paid to putting individual courses or entire degree programs online, less attention is being paid to other components -- affective and social, as well as cognitive -- of a college education, some of which take place outside of class time, and some of which take place during class, but not during instructional time per se. This presentation attempts to alert people to the importance of those other components of a college education, and to suggest ways to foster them online") - Marcy Bauman (TCC '97)

Online Learning Communities: If You Build Them, Will They Stay? ("This study explored best practices for community building in WBI. In doing so, the study sought to examine specific strategies and techniques designed to facilitate the establishment of an on-line community...") - Janette R. Hill and Arjan Raven (ITFORUM, Oct. 2000)

Online learning communities: Investigating a design framework ("This paper reports the development of a design framework intended to support and guide online instructors in the development of a learning community. The study was guided by an investigation of contemporary literature focused on the community construct, online learning community development and the collaborative construction of knowledge and the practices of experienced professionals working in the field. The intended outcome is a design framework that may be useful in guiding instructors in the development of said communities.") - Chris Brook and Ron Oliver (AJET, 2003)

On-line learning, on-line communities (Center for Children and Technology)

Online Learning: Social Interaction and the Creation of a Sense of Community ("This paper centres on the sense of isolation that online study may engender among learners... The authors suggest three protocols that can be built into the fabric of online courses in order that a sense of community may be enabled to exist, and productive social interaction can occur... The paper concludes by suggesting that by creating an online sense of ‘self’, the participants of an online course can alleviate feelings of isolation, and create an online community that assists the learning process.") - Joanne M. McInnerney and Tim S. Roberts (Educational Technology & Society, 2004)

Redes e Educação: A Surpreendente Riqueza de um Conceito ("...Ignorando mais de seis décadas de investigação em educação e aprendizagem – e ignorando que a realidade organizacional que inspirava o sistema escolar mudou radicalmente – persistimos em tentar construir a Sociedade da Informação com os mesmíssimos princípios com que começou a ser construída, há mais de duzentos anos, a Sociedade Industrial...") - António Dias de Figueiredo (Mai. 2002)

SelectingTools for Online Communities: Suggestions for Learning Techonologists ("The authors outline the initial questions that should guide online design and then assess the ways in which message boards, virtual classrooms, and user profile pages can work individually and collectively to make learning communities more "habitable" for their members" - Discussion Forum) - Eric Adams and Chris Freeman (The Technology Source, Jul.-Aug. 2003)

Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice (an excerpt) - Etienne Wenger et al. (25 Mar. 2002)

Strategies for Collaborative Learning: Building e-Learning and Blanded Learning Communities ("...Our goal here is twofold. First we will cut through the ambiguous term "community" by sharing a model that describes a number of practical applications for including community as part of your learning strategy. Second, we will outline specific strategies and approaches for building learning-focused communities.") - Soren Kaplan (2002)

Supporting Learning Communities with Technology (a collection of links)

Teacher Professional Development, Technology, and Communities of Practice: Are we Putting the Cart before the Horse? - Mark Schlager and Judi Fusco

The Internet: A Land to Settle rather than an Ocean to Surf And a new "Place" for School Reform through Community Development - Margaret Riel (1996)

Themes and Ideas: Communities of Practice - Etienne Wenger

The Process of Community-building in Distance Learning Classes - Ruth E. Brown (Sep. 2001)

The Welcome Mat of a High School On-Line Community: A High School How-To Meet and Greet (building an online ESL community) - Christine Jackson and Beverly Fierro (1 Jul. 2002)

Webheads in Action: A Community of Practice for Language Teachers Professional Development in CMC (presentation) - Dafne González (Presentation at the IV Jornadas CETA in Córdoba, Spain. Apr. 2003)

Webheads in Action: A Community of Practice for Language Teachers Professional Development in CMC (paper) - Dafne González (Apr. 2003)

What is a "Community of Practice"? (simple topics each with a link)

      Recommended Reading (links to articles and books)

      Resources for Further Learning (more links)

What is a Community of Practice? (ppt) - Chris Jones (TESOL, Mar. 2003)

CPsquare (the comunity of practice on communities of practice)

Education with New Technologies: Networked Learning Community (designed to help educators develop, enact, and assess effective ways of using new technologies)

European Collaborative for Communities of Practice (ECCOP)

InterLearn - Margaret Riel

Global Educators' Network (GEN)

Learning Times ("LearningTimes is an open community for education-minded people")

Learning Times ("LearningTimes is the leading producer of online communities and conferences for education and training...")

Online Communities for Professional Development ("...rationales for the development of such communities, best practices and successful examples in the field, some assessments of effectiveness, and directions for the future") - Graeme Daniel and Kevin Cox (Web Tools Newsletter, 11 May 2003)

Real English Online (REO) ("Real English Interactive Video Online Password Center Enjoy Free Online ESL lessons right from your computer") - coordinated by Michael Marzio and Elizabeth Hanson-Smith

      Real English Online (REO) (a review of the site) - Dafne González and Arnold Mühren (TESL-EJ, Jun. 2004)

Tapped In ("The online workplace of an international community of education professionals")

Teacher Talk ("a fast-growing online community where K-12 teachers can discuss classroom techniques, trade lesson plan ideas, and support one another")

Webheads in Action ("Webheads in Action is for anyone interested in interacting online with this established community of ESL learners and facilitators") - coordinated by Vance Stevens

WIDE World (online professional development from the Hravard Graduate School of Education)

com-prac - Communities of Practice (an online space for conversations on how to build and support Communities of Practice. It is a discussion for practitioners)

Etienne Wenger: Entrevista por Ana Neves (Jun. 2001)

How to make a CoP fly? - Diane Le Moult (6 Dec. 2002)

Where is Community of Practice Going? - (1 Nov. 2002)

A Recipe for Whipping up Online Facilitation Par Excellence ("...What are the issues in the online learning environment that affect learner satisfaction, and what can online facilitators (as master chefs) do to 'spice up' an online learning environment?") - Susan Byrne and Linda Waddell (Sidebars, Nov. 2003)

Be an Active and Participative Instructor - Jennifer Hofmann (Learning Circuits, 5 Dec. 2003)

e-Moderation - Managing a New Language? Michael Coghlan (Oct. 2001)

Developing learning thorugh effective online moderation (". . . Our specific concern in this paper is with the skills that are needed to tutor online through computer mediated conferences – the transfer of approaches from the traditional distance learning context of written and face-to-face facilitation and the development of new skills required for a new medium") - Gilly Salmon (Active Learning, Dec. 1998)

E-moderating: the key to teaching and learning online - Gilly Salmon

Masters or Slaves to the Technology? The Role of the E-moderator in E-learning - Gilly Salmon

Moderating Educational Computer Conferences - Morten F. Paulsen (1995)

Moderating Educational Computer Conferences - Robin Mason (1991)

Moderating Online (a comprehensive overview) - Gilly Salmon and Ken Giles (Oct. 1997)

Moderating Online Electronic Discussion Groups - M.P. Collins and Zane L. Berge (1997)

Playing Croquet with Flamingos: A Guide to Moderating Online Conferences (a comprehensive overview) - Lyndsay Green (28 May 1998)

The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online - Howard Rheingold

The Role of the Online Instructor/Facilitator (a comprehensive overview) - Zane L. Berge (1996)

Training the e-trainer ("...In this article, Clive Shepherd explores what it is that the e-trainer needs to do differently to make a success of virtual classroom training and realise the benefits that synchronous online communication can bring to just about any organisation with a distributed workforce.") - Clive Sheperd

Welcome to eModerators - Zane Berge and Mauri Collins' page on online distance education and training (2003)

What is a computer conference moderator? - David Winograd (2000)

Online service pairs students, mentors (Mercury News, 10 Jun. 2003)

AdventuresInWikiLand ("an introduction to this waky web publishing environment, and links to some cool applications")

Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration - Bob Godwin-Jones (LL&T, May 2003)

Business is Toying with a Web Tool - Amy Cortese (The New York Times, 19 May 2003)

Educational Wikis: features and selection criteria ("This report discusses the educational uses of the ‘wiki,’ an increasingly popular approach to online community development. Wikis are defined and compared with ‘blogging’ methods; characteristics of major wiki engines are described; and wiki features and selection criteria are examined.") - Linda Schwartz et al. (IRRODL, Apr. 2004)

Is Wiki under your radar? - Chad Dickerson (InfoWorld, 5 Nov. 2004)

MediaWiki

My Brilliant Failure: Wikis in Classrooms - Heather James (Kairosnews, 21 May 2004)

PMWiki ("PmWiki is a WikiWikiWeb system developed by Patrick Michaud in the PHP scripting language. PmWiki has been primarily designed as a tool to support easy, collaborative authoring and maintenance of web sites.")

Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool (includes a comparison of blogs and wikis, and a wiki glossary) - David Mattison (Information Today, Apr. 2003)

Taking a Walk on the Wiki Side (short case study of thw wiki experience) - Brain Lamb (Syllabus, 1 Apr. 2004)

Teaching and learning online with wikis ("Wikis are fully editable websites; any user can read or add content to a wiki site. This functionality means that wikis are an excellent tool for collaboration in an online environment. This paper presents wikis as a useful tool for facilitating online education. Basic wiki functionality is outlined and different wikis are reviewed...") - Naomi Augar et al. (ASCILITE Conference, 2004)

The Wide World of Wiki: Choosing a wiki for an element of a fully online graduate course - James Farmer (10 Jun. 2004)

TWiki - an Enterprise Collaboration Platform - Peter Thoeny (last revision 23 Jun. 2005)

Visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors: a preliminary report (IBM, 2003)

Weave a wiki web - Giles Turnbull (The Guardian, 1 Apr. 2004)

      Talking to Ward Cunningham about Wiki - Giles Turnbull (luvly, 6 Apr. 2004)

Where the Wiki Things Are - Alan Levine interviews Brian Lamb (29 Sep. 2004)

Why I Don't Like Wikis - Elizabeth Lane Lawley (Many-to-Many, 26 Apr. 2003)

      Wikis are Beautiful - Ross Mayfield (Many-to-Many, 30 Apr. 2003)

Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not - Brian Lamb (EDUCAUSE Review, Sep-Oct. 2004)

Wiki Activities Catalogue (links) (5 Mar. 2004)

Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool - David Mattison (Information Today, Apr. 2003)

Wiki hosts - links put together by James Framer (12 May 2004)

WikiOnWiki/WikiBasics

Wikipedia ("a free-content encyclopedia in many languages that anyone can edit...")

      Darwikinism

      Power structure

Wikis - another blow to the traditionalist teacher ("What are some of the potential outcomes of wikis for education and the construction of knowledge")

Wikis, Grafitti, and Process - Clay Shirky (Many-to-Many, 26 Aug. 2003)

Wikis in the Classroom (a set of links to wiki-related topics)

Wikiquote (an online compendium of quotations)

Wiki Wiki Web - Ward Cunningham

      Elements of Wiki Essence

      What is Wiki - Ward Cunningham et al.

      Why Wiki Works

      Wiki Design Principles - Ward Cunningham

      Wiki Essence

      Wiki History - Ward Cunningham

      Wiki Welcome Visitors - Ward Cunningham

      Wiki Wiki Web Faq

Wired for Wikiphonics (presentation) - Brian Lamb

An Introduction to Podcasting -David Baugh (27 Mar. 2005)

Computer, microphone, iPod make broadcasting personal ("...If Internet-based weblogs turned everyone into a potential newspaper columnist, and digital cameras let them become photojournalists, podcasting is promising to let everyone with a microphone and a computer become a radio commentator...") - Peter J. Howe (Boston.com News, 20 Dec. 2004)

First UK schoold podcast up for new media prize - Jonny Evans (Macworld Daily News, 20 Jun. 2005) (refers to msgPodcast under Podcasts, below)

How Podcasting Works ("...a very simple step by step illustration of how to subscribe to a podcast") - Peter Rukavina (25 May 2005)

How to ping audio.weblogs.com - Dave Winer

How To: Podcasting - Phillip Torrone (5 Oct. 2004)

In Pod We Trust ("Podcasting is an offshoot of that booming internet activity, blogging...") - Peter Day (16 May 2005)

Invasion of the podcasting people? - Christine Boese (CNN.com Technology, 8 Dec. 2004)

Ipodder good fodder for MP3 heads: Adam Curry strikes again - Doug Mohney (The Inquirer, 30 Aug. 2004)

iPod to lecture lazy students - Maswrodl staff (14 Jun. 2005)

iPodder.org (" The resource for the iPod platform") - Adam Curry

      A brief History - Adam Curry (5 Oct. 2004)

      What is it? (4 Mar. 2005)

      What is podcasting? - Dave Winer (21 Oct. 2004)

It's not a '5os B Movie, it's Podcasting - David Warlick (28 Dec. 2004)

Jokes in English Podcast - Charles Kelly

NCQ Talk: "What is a Podcast?" - Dan Balzer, Kris Smith and Susan Manning (LT, 22 Fe. 2005)

Pay No Attention to the Podcaster Behinf the Screen - Andy Carvin (6 Jan. 2005)

Podcast 411 (Podcasting How To Tutorials)

Podcast about The Podcast ("...While I am no expert, I do have experience and I decided to do a podcast about how I have been handling my audio. Podcaster to podcaster if you will. I include lots of pictures and details...") - Michael W. Geoghehan

Podcasting (definition in Wikipedia)

Podcasting (text of a presentation) - Tod Maffin (19 Feb. 2005)

Podcasting-Education ("Information and discussion regarding podcasting as an educational tool in today's classroom. Teachers, educators and others share how you have used podcasting thus far, how you hope to use it soon, or any special projects that you envision using podcasting in a school setting. Exchange ideas, tech tips, lesson plans, or even your podcast.") -Yahoo Group

Podcasting for Education - D'Arcy Norman (30 Oct. 2004)

Podcasting Help

Podcasting in Education - Sean Fitzgerald

Podcasting Blues ("...I don't want to dissuade people from trying the technology and seeing what it and they can do. That's the only way we'll see what podcasting might be good for, the old "see what sticks" method....") - Will Richardson (30 Dec. 2004)

Podcasts: New Twist on Net Audio ("For anyone who loves listening to the wide variety of internet audio programming, but can't always listen to their favorite shows when they're scheduled... podcasting sends audio content directly to an iPod or other MP3 player.") - Daniel Terdiman (Wired News, 8 Oct. 2004)

Recording a Podcast - Jake Ludington

RSS 2.0 Specification (Harvard Law)

      How to support enclosures in aggregators (Harvard Law)

Simple Method for Publishing Podcasts as RSS 2.0 feeds - Kevin Lim (12 Dec. 2004)

The Other End of Podcasting - David Warlick (6 Jan. 2005)

You, too, can be a podcaster ("...it's important to look beyond what's available today to see a day when it will be widely used by public radio, churches, universities, families and anyone else with a microphone....") - Daniel Terdiman (Wired News, 31 Dec. 2004)

Barcelona Young Learners EFL Podcasts - Graham Stanley (May 2005)

Connect Learning (Podcasting on the Fly) - David Warlick

Daily Source Code (a daily audio blog post in mp3) - Adam Curry

Englishcaster (Podcast lessons for learners of English)

ESL Listening Podcasts (collection of links)

Evil Genius Chronicles ("A journal of geekery, music and joy" regularly recorded and podcast/ed) - Dave Slusher

In the Trenches - Kevin Devin

IT Conversations: New Ideas through your Headphones (a podcast: "IT Conversations is a network of high-end tech talk-radio interviews, discussions and presentations from major conferences delivered live and on-demand via the Internet. It's a one-person labor of love...")

Learn a Song Podcast ("(MP3 Files to Help You Learn Songs in English") - Charles I. Kelly

Making Podcasting Accessible to All (about podcasting and accessibility) - Andy Carvin (23 Dec. 2004)

      Transcript

mgsPodcast (The UK's first regular schools podcast, from pupils and staff at Musselburgh Grammar School, Scotland)

      msgPodcast - First Pilot Edition

      msgOnline

Podcasting-Education ("Information and discussion regarding podcasting as an educational tool in today's classroom...")

Podcast.net (the Podacast Directory)

Podcasting News (a podcast directory, inlcuding Education)

      Podcasting News: English

Radio ESL - Dave Winet (Jul. 2005)

Student Podcasting ("a page for English language podcasts created entirely by the students of Grade One at the High School Affiliated to Fudan University: Shanghai, China")

The Daily Idiom (Slang and Idiom lessons for learners of English)

The Education Podcast Network (EPN) ("...an effort to bring together into one place the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century")

The freshest podcasts in the known universe (a sample of the latest podcasts)

10+ steps to creating simple HTML files (tutorial) - Vance Stevens

A PC Pioneer Decries the State of Computing - David Kirkpatrick (Fortune, 8 Jul. 2004)

Bridging the Tech-Education Gap - Katie Dean (Wired News, 29 Aug. 2002)

Dodgy links: a warning to all webmasters maintaining lists of links to external sites - Graham Davies (updated 4 May 2005)

E-Learning Accessibility - Paul Stacey (Mar. 2003)

E-Learning and Knowledge Management - Paul Stacey (Oct. 2000)

E-Learning Interoperability & Web Services - Paul Stacey (Dec. 2002)

How to Get the Most Out of an Online Conference - Jim Shimabukuro (2003)

'Hybrid' Teaching Seeks to End the Divide Between Traditonal and Online Instruction - Jeffrey R. Young (The Chronicle of Hiher Education, Mar. 22, 2002)

Learning Orientation Questionnaire: Measuring Online Ability (The Training Place)

Learning Styles Presentation - Virginia Havergal (Ferl, 11 Jun. 2003)

Live E-Learning - Paul Stacey (Mar. 2002)

Online Communities and the Secret Sauce - Paul Stacey (Jun. 2003)

People to People not just People to Content - Learning Environments for Active and Alive Content - Paul Stacey (Feb. 2003)

Queen knights World Wide Web inventor (CNN.com, 16 Jul. 2004)

Teaching with technology - Julie Hill (Presentations, Oct. 2002)

Technology Taking Students on Far-Flung Field Trips - Pamela Mendels (NYTimes, 17 Mar. 1999)

Teenage Overload, or Digital Dexterity? - Katie Hafner (NYTimes, 12 Apr. 2001)

Teenagers Try Online Learning - Lisa Guernsey (NYTimes, 15 Feb. 2001)

That Parent-Child Conversation is Becoming, and Online - John Schwartz (NYTimes, 3 Jan. 2004)

Too young for technology? ("Parents, scholars reconsider tech for youngsters") (CNN.com, 23 Jul. 2004)

Web conferencing: setting the stage for expanding your reach - David Collins (The Business Review, 11 Aug. 2003)

What is an Online Conference? - Jim Shimabukuro (2003)

When technology fails, be ready - Dave Paradi (Presentations, Jul. 2004)

Wireless Solutions - Carol Holzberg (techLEARNING, 25 May 2005)