TBers, Some colleagues at the University of Central Florida are offering open/free enrollment to an open online course called BlendKit 2011. The free online course is focused on the topic of blended/hybrid learning and will run from July 11 - August 15th, 2011. If you are interested, please see the informational link below, as well as the registration link. Mr. James B. Greenberg Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center Milne Library SUNY College at Oneonta Oneonta, New York 13820 email: [log in to unmask] phone: 607-436-2701 fax: 607-436-3677 Twitter: greenbjb "Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever" P Think before you print! Please consider the environment before printing this email We are launching a MOOC – a “massive, open, online course” – on the topic of “Online Learning Today… and Tomorrow.” It is free. It is non-commercial. It is an open opportunity to collaborate. It is put together by many of your good friends andcolleagues in online learning who have joined in collecting resources and in agreeing to serve on live Webinar panel discussions. You know many of them (see the table below). It is a great way to "gear-up" for the ET4Online Conference<http://sloanconsortium.org/et4online> in July and the Annual International Conference on Online Learning<http://sloanconsortium.org/aln> in November. When: Registration is Free and Open now! The course runs 6/27 – 8/20, 2011 Resource site is open today: you can see where we are going, the course will evolve Live Webinar panel discussions every Thursday 2p EDT, 1p CDT, Noon MDT, 11a PDT beginning with the first session on June 30 Where: http://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/ is the home/resource site Discussions for those who register will be hosted by Google Group eduMOOC Twitter hashtag is #edumooc Diigo tag is edumooc to share additional resources Why: To learn, collaborate and network with interesting and knowledgeable colleagues Just a few of the panelists are Cable Green (Creative Commons and keynote speaker for the annual November conference in Orlando), Bruce Chaloux (SREB / immediate past president of Sloan-C), Bob Hansen(UPCEA CEO), Karen Swan (UIS / Sloan-C Fellow and board member), George Siemens (Father of Connectivism and co-originator of MOOC), Curt Bonk (IU, author of “The World is Open” and recent keynote speaker at the ALN conference), Larry Ragan (co-founder of the PSU/Sloan-C Institute for Emerging Leaders in Online Learning), Karen Vignare (co-director of the ETO4 conference), Alexandra Pickett (the heart of the SUNY Learning Network), Tektrekker Bethany Bovard, and so many more… the current list is below, but we will be adding to the panels as we go along ! Join us in building resources; discussing today and the future of online learning. Sign up today. It’s totally free – do as much or as little as you choose – no advertising – just collaboration, communication and networking with our good colleagues in online learning. http://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/ I’ll “see” you there as together we experiment with the MOOC approach to open online learning. -Ray Schroeder Prof Emeritus, University of Illinois Springfield http://sites.google.com/site/rayschroeder Dir, Center for Online Learning, Research and Service http://colrs.uis.edu<http://colrs.uis.edu/> eduMOOC Schedule - Check often for additional panelists Week Topic Thursday Panelists June 27 Online Learning Today<https://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/edumooc-week-one-online-learning-today> Ray Schroeder<http://sites.google.com/site/rayschroeder> (UIS) Moderator Bruce Chaloux<http://www.ecinitiatives.org/> (SREB) Bob Hansen<http://upcea.edu/> (UPCEA) Witt Salley<http://www.linkedin.com/in/wittsalley> (MoDLA) July 4 Online Learning Research<https://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/edumooc-week-two-what-the-research-tells-us> Karen Swan<http://ui-springfield.academia.edu/KarenSwan> (UIS) Moderator Phil Ice<http://apus.academia.edu/PhilIce> (APUS) Ben Arbaugh<http://www.uwosh.edu/cob/faculty-and-staff/faculty/individual-pages/j-ben-arbaugh> (UWOSH) July 11 Online Learning Technologies<https://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/eduedumooc-week-three-online-technologies-today-and-tomorrow> Michael Cheney<http://www.uiaa.org/uis/technology_beatles.html> (UIS) Moderator Alexandra Pickett<http://etap640.edublogs.org/about-2/> (SUNY) Bethany Bovard<http://tektrekker.pbwiki.com/AboutMe> (NMSU) July 18 Online Learning Apps and Mobile Learning<https://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/edumooc-week-four-online-learning-apps-and-mobile-learning> Glenda Morgan<http://www.educause.edu/Community/MemDir/Profiles/GlendaMorgan/44114> (UIUC) Moderator July 25 Public, Private & Open - Learning<https://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/edumooc-week-five-public-private-open-online-learning> Ray Schroeder<http://sites.google.com/site/rayschroeder> (UIS) Moderator Cable Green<http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu/> (Creative Commons) Larry Ragan<http://psuwcfacdev.ning.com/profile/LawrenceRagan> (PSU World Campus) August 1 Personal Learning - Informal Learning<https://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/edumooc-week-six-personal-online-learning-networks> Shari McCurdy Smith<http://sharimccurdy.blogspot.com/> (UIS) Moderator George Siemens<http://www.elearnspace.org/about.htm> (Athabasca) Jason Rhode<http://www.niu.edu/jrhode/> (NIU) August 8 Collaboratives & Collectives in the Clouds<https://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/edumooc-week-seven-collaboratives-collectives-and-clouds---breaking-institutional-barriers> Shari McCurdy Smith<http://sharimccurdy.blogspot.com/> (UIS) Moderator Karen Vignare<http://144.162.197.249/virtual/KarenVignare.html> (MSU) Linda C. Smith<http://www.lis.illinois.edu/people/faculty/lcsmith> (UIUC) August 15 Online Learning 2011-2021<https://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/edumooc-week-eight-online-learning-tomorrow-2011-2021> Ray Schroeder<http://sites.google.com/site/rayschroeder> (UIS) Moderator Cable Green<http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu/> (Creative Commons) Curt Bonk<http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/> (IU) Bruce Chaloux<http://www.ecinitiatives.org/> (SREB) Seb Schmoller<http://fm.schmoller.net/> (ALT UK)