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All too often, online learners are confronted with an intimidating list of items with little guidance as to how these relate to specific course outcomes or objectives. Learning management systems have limited features for scheduling learning activities. One clear way to communicate a clear structure of course activities is a table which maps weekly activities to outcomes and assessment.

Inserting a link in Wordpress 2.5.1 can cause a validation problem. The problem arises when you insert a link using the Visual editor mode and include a title attribute, generally regarded as highly desirable for reasons of accessibility and promoting your content.

The New Zealand government’s draft Digital Strategy, was released recently. But if New Zealand is serious about being a world leader in information and technology, it will need to radically change its management culture.

The read-write matrix provides a model of analysing the roles of learners in working with documents in a Web 2.0 context. The complexity of Web 2.0 tools, however, has prompted me to explore ways of extending the model to provide more detail, including different forms of contribution and collaboration.

Educators getting started with using wikis and blogs and other Web 2.0 software as tools for learning need to develop a structural understanding of the different potential forms of collaboration and interaction. But some of the models used as references for such educational use come from other contexts, and are unlikely to be sufficient as models for designing effective learning and teaching.