"…resource for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books. We list over 3,000 authors, with chronological lists of their books (over 34,000 titles), both series (3,400 ) and non-series."

Many of our courses use blogs for learning community and peer communication…

Information Fluency is a core principle in our course (and faculty) development activities

STAT 200X is one of our many high-demand courses– like science, math poses some particular challenges for online instruction.

MSL 111X is one of our wholly distance lab-based core-science courses

A look at how CDE operates: our history, innovation and the future.

We've developed a suite of quality improvement guidelines to ensure quality course delivery– and a dedicated course improvement cycle to address deficiencies…

CDE instructional designers and staff often participate in faculty, staff and student development, such as the Tech Fest 2009

This checklist is part of our comprehensive course development process that begins with reverse engineering based on outcomes and continues through ongoing and summative assessment linked to revisions

This fall CDE produced, facilitated and took part in a distance education track at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Arctic Division Conference

CDE Instructional Designers participate in national conferences to share with– and learn from– their communities of practice

The open-side of a face-to-face course…

One of our "open course" examples– the for-credit course is staged in Blackboard

Each year CDE puts on multiple intensive education and educational technology clinics with participants from around the state… these are known as "iTeach"

A nice presentation by @shareski on why Twitter isn't (always) the stupidest thing ever…

Also home of the 2008 Sexiest Barista … 

Many varieties to choose from…

Find interesting Twitter people based on other interesting people. Looks promising– if I could ever get past the "Twitter seems a little slow today" error message

A quick guide to some more (and less) useful Photoshop actions for quickly enhancing/transmogrifying photos

Some very useful content here!

This is a subject that deserves some thought. For the most part, online conferences (and online strands of face-to-face) seem to be perceived as (and often subtly created as) alternative to the "real thing" that are inferior but better-than-nothing. Reminds me of the way distance education and online learning (mostly) used to be seen the same way in comparison to their face-to-face counterparts…

You have to be a poetry geek, perhaps, but a few of these made me laugh out loud. The exchange between Whitman and Pound is priceless.

Some great videos here… thanks @jstein

Audio interviews with scores of writers of all kinds, including many speculative fictioneers and discussions of writing, writers and the writing process.

All of "The Prose Poem" vol. 8 is available online in the Providence Digital Commons… wish the rest were!