onlineinstruction

=Online Instruction=

General Information Teaching Online Tools for Teaching Online Online Lecture Materials Miscellaneous

Also see Online Learners, Distributed Learning,


 * GENERAL INFORMATION**

University of South Carolina Distance Education http://www.sc.edu/uis/de/index.html

Principles for Accessibility in Online Distributed Learning http://ncam.wgbh.org/salt/guidelines/sec3.html

Legal Issues for Accessible Distance Learning http://ncam.wgbh.org/salt/guidelines/appendixa.html

Open Culture http://www.oculture.com/ "Open Culture explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that’s freely available on the web, and that makes learning dynamic, productive, and fun. We sift through all the media, highlight the good and jettison the bad, and centralize it in one place."

Credential Crackdown: Court's Homeschool Decision Imperils Online Learning by Lauren Smith http://www.edutopia.org/homeschooling-credential-court-ruling “A state Court of Appeals ruling on homeschooling may have a dampening effect on virtual schools as well.”

Is That Online Student Who He Says He Is? http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3455&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

New Systems Keep a Close Eye on Online Students at Home http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i46/46a00103.htm The products mentioned in the article: - Secure Remote Proctor http://www.remoteproctor.com/SERP/ - Webassessor http://www.kryteriononline.com/webassessor.htm - Acxiom FactCheck-X http://www.acxiom.com/FactCheck-X


 * TEACHING ONLINE**

Is Online Teaching for Me? Self-evaluation Quiz' http://www.onlinelearning.net/InstructorCommunity/selfevaluation.html?s=221.30303155b.053n405f10

Why teach fully online, blended or enhanced? http://vudat.msu.edu/why/ This is just the first page of a great site by the Virtual University Design and Technology at Michigan State University

Communication http://vudat.msu.edu/communication/

Facilitating Every Student in an Online Course by Virgil Varvel http://www.ion.illinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2001_03/index.asp

Building a Learning Community Online by Chris Waters http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=17301672

(article) Key Elements of Building Online Community: Comparing Faculty and Student Perceptions http://jolt.merlot.org/vol3no3/vesely.htm

(article) Building Community in an Online Learning Environment: Communication, Cooperation and Collaboration [|http://www.mtsu.edu/~itconf/proceed01/19.html]

(video) Wired Campus TV: 3 High-Tech Teaching Tips http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3415&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en “The professors talk about how they have used small video cameras, online game shows, and wikis to involve students in face-to-face and online courses.”

Faculty Focus - Articles [] A gazillion articles about teaching in higher education, especially about teaching online. It also has a great deal of information useful to new instructors.


 * TOOLS FOR TEACHING ONLINE**

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/ In addition to general information, they have lists of Top Ten Tools “for your own personal learning/productivity and/or for creating learning for others” from people all over the world. She then compiles all the responses into a Top 100 Tools for Learning list for the year.

Online Tools for Schools http://ced.ncsu.edu/onlinetools Sponsored by NC State College of Education, this site has a variety of resources including an Online Technology Tutorial.

Voice Thread (a ‘self-paced learning environment’) http://voicethread.com/#home

Video – Voice Thread http://voicethread.com/#home.b97617.i496149

Google Docs Goes Online http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2861

Review of open source content management systems http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/april2008/articles/article4/index.html?trackingid=CAFWA

Web 2.0 Teaching Tools http://web20teach.blogspot.com/ "This site lists Web 2.0 websites and webtools have potential for use college and university teaching."

SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/faqs/slidecast "...you can play any slidedeck synchronized with an audio file. To create a slidecast, you need to upload slides to SlideShare. Your audio file, however, can be hosted anywhere on the web- any server, file storage, or podcasting service. You link the slides & audio together using our synchronization tool. Now every time you play the Slidecast, the audio is streamed from its location and plays with the slides."

Technology Checklist for Online Courses by Dave Edyburn [|http://www.uwm.edu/~edyburn/online/techcheck.html] “…this page contains a three-step checklist that will help you assess the readiness of your computer. … The checklist will take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete. Following the checklist, resources are provided for learning more about productivity software and how to obtain free tools that may assist you in your online work.”

ONLINE LECTURE MATERIALS
World Lecture Hall http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/ This site, from the University of Texas, is “publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language. Some courses are delivered entirely over the Internet. Others are designed for students in residence. Many fall somewhere in between. In all cases, they can be visited by anyone interested in courseware on the Internet — faculty, developers, and curious students alike.”

MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm “MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.”

MIT OpenCourseWare: Highlights for High School http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/home/index.htm “Highlights for High School features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and teachers.”

Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/

MERLOT http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm “MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.”

Bob Jensen's Links to Electronic Literature http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Free Online Courses & Lectures from Great Universities (via Podcast and MP3) http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html


 * MISCELLANEOUS**

Ethics and Distance Education: Strategies for Minimizing Academic Dishonesty in Online Assessment by Melissa R. Olt [|http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/fall53/olt53.html] “This paper discusses ethics and student assessment, as applicable to the growing field of distance education. In particular, this paper discusses strategies for minimizing academic dishonesty in online student assessment. Among the strategies discussed are acknowledging the disadvantages of online assessment and overcoming them, designing an effective, cheat-proof online assessment, keeping online courses current, and providing students with an academic dishonesty policy.”

Acker, Stephen R. Space, Collaboration, and the Credible City: Academic Work in the Virtual University. http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue1/acker/ACKTEXT.HTM The author discusses the role of physical space in collaborative virtual endeavors, and "asks collaborators to be sensitive to the role that physical space plays in creative human endeavors, and to consider the impact on work accomplished in merged electronic and physical work environments."

ProfHacker http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/ A blog from the Chronicle of Higher Education that offers "tips about teaching, technology and productivity"