You may wish to extend your e-learning skills or you might like to reflect on the issues in designing and developing online teaching while at the same time learning that way yourself for a short period. Then you may be interested in the long established University of London Online Education & Training course. It deals with general issues of teaching online with regular practical tasks, and has a choice of optional topics on using the internet to enhance internet teaching. These are expected to include online discourse and moderating computer-based assessment mobile technologies Real-time teaching with CHAT or video-conferencing and whiteboards blogging and podcasting The next start is 13 May 2007. We suggest you register as soon as possible. The course carries 30 UK credits towards either a masters or a diploma and can be taken by 10 weeks distance study online. The fee is £Stg 499, which can be paid by bank transfer, credit card or instalments. More information about the course is at the website:http://www.ioe.ac.uk/english/OET.htm Enquiries to Anita Pincas, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Education Tel +44 0207 612 6522 Personal Web page http://www.ioe.ac.uk/english/Apincas.htm Short course: Online Education and Training Full details and application form: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/english/OET.h tm Podcast: http://anitapincas.podomatic.com/ Blog: http://oet06.blogspot.com/ Email: [log in to unmask]