February 2007, Vol. 6, Issue

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY OPEN LEARNING INITIATIVE ADVANCES SCIENTIFICALLY INF0RMED WEB-BASED INSTRUCTION
An in-depth look inside Carnegie Mellon's open source, community-based educational research and development activities taking place inside its Open Learning Initiative, which has thus far created 11 highly sophisticated fully online courses that any individual can take for free. OLI also offers instructor accounts where instructors can select and sequence material from these courses to fit their teaching needs. MORE

BLACKBOARD REPORT IDENTIFIES CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS AND VARIABLES OF AN EMERGING VISION IN HIGHER ED
Blackboard has published a free report titled "A View From The Top: Building the 21st Century Campus, A Leadership Survey of the Challenges Facing North American Higher Education." MORE

EDUCAUSE CONTENT AVAILABLE ONLINE LOADED WITH INFORMATIVE PERSPECTIVES FOR ONLINE EDUCATORS
A brief review of some of the articles in the latest issue of the EDUCAUSE Quarterly, and a heads-up on a dynamite resource generated from the recent EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting held last month in Atlanta. MORE

NEW WEBSITE WITH WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGY FEATURES AN AGGREGATION NETWORK OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Check out the OER Commons. . . MORE

DREXEL UNIVERSITY ONLINE ADDS THREE NEW EDUCATION-RELATED DEGREE PROGRAMS
Drexel creates new programs to help meet a growing demand for more teachers. MORE

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