The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) calls for papers for a Special Issue on Innovations in Online and Blended Education in Community Colleges. The intent is to collect short stories about innovative online and blended education practices in the nation’s community colleges.

Linda K. Enghagen, J.D., Professor University of Massachusetts at Amherst Isenberg School of Management

In a widely reported dispute, the Association for Information and Media Equipment (AIME) is challenging the manner in which the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) permits faculty members to stream video to course Web sites. While no lawsuit has been filed to date, UCLA issued a press release on February 11, 2010 announcing it “temporarily suspended the posting of streamed content, effective at the start of winter quarter in January 2010.”

I'm excited about going to Washington state to discuss online education for workforce training.  Washington State Community and Technical Colleges is getting heavily engaged with Sloan-C to do professional development for faculty there.  Take a look at the slides that Maureen Bozell and I are taking with Cable Green and his group about.

Slides here

I am seeking ideas for having students give presentations electronically. My ideal would be for students to post an electronic presentation in a secure spot (no public access without an invitation to view. I would then like these invited visitors to have the capacity to comment on the presentation and to ask the student questions - asynchronous. The visitor should be able to choose whether their comments and questions were visible to other invited guests or only visible to the student (and professor). I am a novice at this. What techniques do you suggest? What software, etc.

Kathleen Ives, Bethany Bovard and I are presenting some ideas about emerging technologies at the CCME Symposium in Nashville this week (Feb 16, 2010). 

• Presentation
• Emerging Techologies for Online Learning - Resources