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Technology Enabled Teaching Case Study

eLearning Utopia: iPods Meet Course Management

"The knock on eLearning in some quarters is that faculty just throw notes and lectures online and call it eLearning," writes Robert Viau in this week's Technology Enabled Teaching eletter. As an exception to this stereotype, he points to a course he teaches at Georgia College & State University. Here eLearning "involves fiery online give and take on eternal existential questions, integrated with fine art, classical music, podcasting and the ubiquitous iPod." Read more.

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