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RESHAPING NODES: HOW FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY IS REDESIGNING THE WEBSITE OF ITS OFFICE FOR DISTRIBUTED AND DISTANCE LEARNING
This relatively large website redesign project has some highly efficient organizational features and construction strategies that keep it moving in the right direction. MORE

ODDL'S 11 NODES
The Florida State University Office for Distributed and Distance Learning website is comprised of 11 sub websites, called "nodes," that are all under redesign. MORE

WHAT'S ON THE EDPATH READING LIST?
Abstracts and links to some new articles and some articles we missed that we think are worth reading, covering everything from how to dispel myths among educators hesitant to adopt or against adopting online teaching and learning environments, to evolving education technologies, the Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, and the future. MORE

CONDUCTING EFFECTIVE ORIENTATIONS TO ONLINE LEARNING
Maggie McVay Lynch, manager of distributed education at Portland State University and author of "Learning Online: A Guide to Success in the Virtual Classroom," tells us about the right way to produce orientation programs for online learners. MORE

ON LEARNING OBJECTS, WEBLOGS, WIKIS, THE CREATIVE COMMONS AND PLONE
Brian Lamb, learning objects coordinator, as well as coordinator of weblogs and wikis, at the University of British Columbia's Office of Learning Technology, talks about how educators are creating shared communities of resources that are posted and published around their own sense of identity and brand. MORE

NEWS BRIEFS
Capella Gets New Investors; Blackboard Goes to China; Excelsior College and NYSUT Team Up. MORE

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