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This blog is the product of the Academic Training and Consulting (ATC) team at Pearson eCollege.

In this blog, you will find interesting ideas, great links and engaging online teaching concepts in both theory and application.  In the upcoming weeks and months, you’ll get some quality resources to bolster your online class as well as some ideas to challenge your current ways of being and doing. You’ll read about research, assessment, Web 2.0, rubrics, the semantic web, leadership, teams and communication, just to name a few potential posts.  We’ll talk wikis, chat, discussions, images, Podcasts, video, screencasting and much, much more.

You can expect to read prose, research, and thought provoking arguments from industry expert academic trainers, consultants, and instructors:

• Jeff D Borden, M.A. - Senior Director of Teaching & Learning / Communications & Theater Instructor / Doctoral Candidate
• Gail E. Krovitz, Ph.D. - Director of Academic Training & Consulting / Anthropology & Biology Instructor
• Ken Switzer, Ph.D. - Senior Academic Trainer & Consultant / American Government Instructor
• Luke Cable, B.S. - Academic Trainer & Consultant
• Rachel Cubas, M.Sc. - Academic Trainer & Consultant / Instructor of Leadership & Management
• Pam Kachka, M.A. - Academic Trainer & Consultant
• Rob Kadel, Ph.D. - Academic Trainer & Consultant / Sociology Instructor
• Brian McKay Epp, M.A. - Academic Trainer & Consultant