Developing Online Courses

The following blog site, devoted to the topic of developing online courses at BCIT, is now available and ready to use:

Developing Online Courses

Besides describing the various steps in online course development, there are resources (templates, checklists, etc.) that will help you as you develop your course.

E-Learning Handbook

The Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education (STRIDE) of Indira Ghandi National Open University has released what looks like an excellent handbook of E-learning. The handbook contains contributions from 26 e-learning experts from around the world including Sanjaya Mishra, Som Naidu, Terry Anderson, Tony Bates, and Stephen Downes.

Publication: International Higher Education

The Center for International Higher Education (CIHE) at Boston College, has a great quarterly publication that features a broad range of perspectives and reports on international education from around the world. The articles are all very short and readable, and together with some very informative twitter updates (bc_cihe) it provides some fantastic take-away information (eg. Mumbai University has 354 affiliated undergrad colleges and over 650,000 students!!). It's also notable and admirable that the newsletter is published in Chinese and Russian, in addition to English.