A recent study in the Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration (Spring 2010) by George Watson and James Sottile at Marshall University in West Virginia, provides some interesting insight into cheating at the post secondary level. To allow for a comparison between face-to-face classrooms and online classes, students were asked to provide data on their experiences in both of these settings. However, students perceive that the likelihood of cheating occurring in online courses to be much higher than in face-to-face courses (over 4 times higher!). MORE >>

read: “Online Live Training: what challenges do you face? Have you started delivering training live online training yet? Then she asked, “What do you find to be your greatest challenge in training live online?&#. Because if your content doesn’t match the delivery mode, it doesn’t matter how interesting, entertaining, adept, practiced, experienced or knowledgable your instructor/facilitator/trainer is, the online event will fail. Sounds obvious, but failing to do this is the primary reason most online events fail. WebEx. Telspan. Period. MORE >>

where the topic of free file storage online came up. Often when working in a course development team, using some central repository of files is very convenient - free file storage services online can help. Here's a review of 10 free online file storage services via The Smorgasbord dated Aug 19th, 2008. Here's a review of 10 free online file storage services via Online Storage Services Review dated sometime in 2008. Here's a review of 6 free online file storage services via Enfotainer dated August 13th, 2008. Also, Helen Barret, the E-Portfolio Queen!, MORE >>

I'm helping different people to facilitate online trajectories. It's always funny to see that people who are experienced facilitators face-to-face are so scared for an online process. And then suddenly they see they can use the same basic facilitation skills online. Somehow online, participation seems lower because the people who are reading with attention are not visible. Face-to-face facilitators are used to read the attention on the faces of participants, but online readership is invisible (though you can use statistics ofcourse, but that's more indirect). MORE >>

The first 100% online university. In 1999, Jones International became the  first online university in the U.S. By 1999, other online universities were on the scene including the University of Phoenix and Western Governors University which was a consortium of small colleges in the rocky mountain area. Some online universities offered degrees for as low as $4,800 USD, and a doctorate as low as $12K. Other online universities sounded like brick and mortar institutions: University of Northern Washington, for example. Smaller colleges were getting into the act too. MORE >>