Clive Shepherd's "top picks" from Patti Shank's "The Online Learning Ideas Book"

Clive Shepherd posts his "top 12 picks" from the 95 ideas listed in Patti Shank's newly published The Online Learning Ideas Book. Reading a list like Clive's makes you realise how hard (futile?) it probably is to try to develop a formal language or syntax with which to describe learning design or to model learning, though the Open University of the Netherlands and IMS are trying, with Educational Modelling Language and IMS Learning Design.