- Online Resources for Faculty
- Using Moodle
- H.C. Equipment Instructions
- Computer Ergonomic Guidelines
- Lotus Notes Tips
- Windows Tips/Tricks and File management tools
- Microsoft Office Tips and Shortcuts Tutorials and links to templates
- PowerPoint specific tips, tutorials, as well as instructions for adding graphics from scanner, digital camera, internet
- Internet Info Links: Search Tips, Internet Search Starting Points, Guide to On-line Research
- MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.
- A repository of multimedia resources created by educators who teach university level courses. More than 2,000 sites are available in MERLOT and many of them have already been subjected to a peer-review process that rates their usability and effectiveness. A variety of learning materials - simulations, animations, tutorials, exercises, assignments - are freely available for faculty to incorporate into their own syllabi, provided that attribution to the creator is given. The site is searchable by a number of criteria, although browsing by subject and sub-categories is a quick way to explore the variety of resources offered in a particular discipline.
- World Lecture Hall
- Publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language. See what other faculty are doing in classes similar to yours.
- IDEA Papers, POD-IDEA Center Notes and POD-IDEA Center Learning Notes from: IDEA our educational assessment tool
- Global Campus
- is a collaborative multimedia database containing a variety of educational materials such as images, sounds, text, and video to be used for nonprofit, educational purposes
- LTA collection
- A Low Threshold Application (LTA) is a teaching/learning application of information technology that is reliable, accessible, easy to learn, non-intimidating and (incrementally) inexpensive. Each LTA has observable positive consequences, and contributes to important long term changes in teaching and/or learning. "... the potential user (teacher or learner) perceives an LTA as NOT challenging, not intimidating, not requiring a lot of additional work or new thinking. LTAs. are also 'low-threshold' in the sense of having low INCREMENTAL costs for purchase, training, support, and maintenance." - Steve Gilbert
- Introducing "5-Minute eClips" and "Brief Hybrid Workshops"
- is an activity of less than 15 minutes (preferably closer to 5!) for participants that includes the use of one or more Internet-accessible media clips AND some other files, instructions, activities, documents, plans, guidelines, etc. It is intended to help a group of people produce or learn how to do something useful to them. Participants usually interact with each other and with a leader/presenter/facilitator during the activity.
- 7 Things You Should Know About...
- The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About... series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:
- What it is
- How it works
- Where it is going
- Why it matters to teaching and learning.
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) Initiative is planning to build a huge repository of MIT course materials for educators and students to use regardless of their location or affiliation with MIT. By 2007, resources for almost all of MIT’s 2000 or so courses will be available. A prototype has been released and includes reading lists, lecture notes, assignments, demonstrations, experiments, and/or samples of student works from a number of current MIT courses.
- National Digital Science Library
- An NSF project initiated in 2000, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) includes collections, services, and targeted research in its digital library. The overall mission is to serve as a comprehensive source of Web-based learning resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. They also have resources in the Social Science area.
- Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
- Searchable database which contains examples of how the Web is being used as a medium for learning.
- Teaching Tips and Active Learning Web Sites for College Faculty
- Incorporating the Internet into your Class
- Emporia State's listing of Online Journals and subject related web sites
- University of Houston's listing of Online Scholarly Journals
- Faculty Dialogue
- is a journal published three times a year, both in print and on-line. Its goal is to provide faculty in Christian higher education and Christian faculty in secular institutions an avenue for exchange of insights, experiences, and encouragement.
- University Video and Film rental sources: Search by subject or title from the major rental sources
Online Resources for Faculty
The TLT Group has two nice resources/idea banks
Online Textbook Information: Links no longer kept up to date.
Publishers keep merging and changing. The best bet to find their homepage is to do a Google search with their name and the word "homepage" also in the search
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