Course Development Costs

This article does a decent job of summarizing the Estimate of Hours Needed to Develop WBT. While dated, it does provide a fair guestimation with viable references.

Moodle - an LMS Pilot Report

The Instructional Technology Resource Center of Idaho State University prepared a paper on the findings of their pilot initiatives of the Moodle LMS.

This I Believe minute paper

In this paper we propose a means of eliciting student beliefs using a This I Believe minute paper. We also share the results of our initial usage of this process and describe what we believe to be the most important global implication to leadership teaching, learning and education. Additionally, this concept for elicitation of student beliefs can be extended to any subject or context.

Learning Objects

Thomas Cochran discusses developing and evaluating multimedia Learning Objects to enhance both face-to-face (f2f) and distance e-learning environments.

EPIC 2015

While most all content on this blog is grounded in research and directed towards the educator, we are stepping out a bit to share Epic 2015 by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson view. This projected view of resulting technology mergers and how merged technologies are used brings a new spin to the future of technology for educators alike. Comments are welcomed.

Developing Employment-Related Office Technology Skills

This project focused on teaching practices. While dated, it is still relevant. Teaching software effectively is becoming increasingly important. If almost all employed workers will need to use some portions of such software, clearly, large numbers of people need to learn to use general business applications software. Most importantly, they need to transfer their knowledge from the learning setting to business settings, and they need to be able to continue to learn new software as versions change and new software displaces old.