Principles for teaching a Media course online:

Scaffold student learning
Use open source Web 2.0 (uses Wordpress, MediaWiki, Audacity, GIMP, but hasn’t found a good opensource video editing software)
Forster a culture of collaboration among students
Help students to understand Copyright - also talks about what you can do - eg Centre for Social Media “code of practices in [...]

Excellent presentation that covered items such as:

Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System voluntarily translating courseware such as MITs open coursware
TUFTS, Indian Institutes of Technologies, National Repository for Online Courses (NROC) Commons
December 2007 Cape Town Open Education Declaration http://www.capetowndeclaration.org
Israel starts first free online university
“Google Sky”
The complete works of Darwin and Shakespeare are now [...]

Yesterday Dean Groom gave an interesting lecture to Macquarie University’s EDUC261 - ICT and Education students. Apparently there are over 200 3D immersive virtual worlds with over 2 million people in each. This includes RPGs (Role Play Games) and MMOs (Massive Multiplayer Online). He presented an update of Bloom’s technology with the sorts of Web2.0 [...]

A release from the Board of Studies:
http://news.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/index.cfm/2009/2/16/Changes-to-the-2010-HSC-Examinations-and-Assessments

Professor Piet Kommers has done a great deal of work in the area of technology based learning. His wesite can be found at
http://users.edte.utwente.nl/kommers/