Here are some notes that I took from the Blackboard World 2011 conference:
If you’re interested in playing around with Blackboard, COURSEsites allows anyone to create up to five free sites. I found it helpful as a space to explore the different tools and the course design templates they have are interesting to look through to see different ways of structuring a course.
Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for reading in academe
While the Internet is a text–saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the technological, social, behavioural, and neuroscientific impacts that the Internet is having on the practice of reading. A particular focus is given to the reading behaviour of emerging university students, especially within Canada and the United States.
I thought this was a helpful summary and discussion of the research around reading online versus reading in print. It doesn’t provide much guidance, but it’s interesting to think about as we help identify readings for courses, especially as we move towards more online readings.