Looking for online degrees in education

[Alja Sulčič]

As I've already written in my introduction, I've just got my bachelor degree in Media Communications, and would now like to continue my studies at a postgraduate level. For this reason I am looking for good online study programmes in the field of e-learning and/or instructional design. Eduardo suggested me that I should also ask you, dear members of College 2.0, for your opinions and suggestions, so I really hope you can help me in my search :)

Thanks in advance!

[Eduardo Peirano]

So far I have suggested to Alja:
1- Canada, Athabasca University’s Master of Distance Education (MDE)
2- Australia, University of Southern Queensland - Master of Online Edu...
3- Australia, University of Southern Queensland - Master of Education ...

I have known about these online Master's degree program programs in Online Education for several years.
Athabasca University is the Canada's Open University. You would want to research also the UK Open University. All these universities started early with Online Education.

Athabasca University published an online book: Theory and Practice of Online Learning (2004) and also publishes the reaserch journal: The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

I hope other members can help Alja and suggest other programs

[Eduardo Peirano]

Alja, while searching for a online Master's in Online Education you should care about the Forum that is used on the LMS. You can read a post from a teacher comparing Moodle and Blackboard forums A Better Discussion: Flat or Threaded Forum ? You can use Slashdot and switch between Flat, Threaded and Nested. I prefer the flat forums and would feel that my productivity would be much higher using this type of forum