September 2007 Website of the Month

Online Learning Update of Current News and Research
If you're interested in keeping up with online and distance learning news, Online Learning Update (OLU) is the place. OLU is maintained and frequently updated by Ray Schroeder.

OLU is set up like a blog. Each entry contains brief summaries of daily news stories related to online and distance learning. Ray also posts links and summaries to current online and distance learning research. The summaries aren't intended to replace reading news and current trends and research, but rather is a jumping off place to keep up on what's going on in online learning. Because of the blog format, readers are also invited to post comments about the news and research articles.

Ray has been adding three new news and research pieces every day since 2001. This results in a searchable archive of more than 6,800 posts.

Stay up-to-date on all the OLU posts and news by subscribing to the email updates (upper left).

Site Owner
Ray Schroeder is Professor Emeritus of Communication, Director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning (OTEL) at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He has taught more than two dozen online classes. As Director of OTEL he is dedicated to faculty development and pedagogical support of the online initiative. Schroeder has numerous national conference presentations and publications in the area of online learning and the application of technology to enhance the learning process. He has published the popular Online Learning Update blog for the past seven years. Schroeder is a Sloan Consortium Distinguished Scholar in Online Learning 2002-2003, recipient of the 2002 Sloan-C award for the “Most Outstanding Achievement in ALN by an Individual,” and University of Southern Maine “Visiting Scholar in Online Learning” 2006-2008.

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