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Resources for Online Instructors
prepared by Brian Reilly
updated February 5, 2007
feedback and suggestions: breilly@ucx.ucr.edu
UCR Extension
iLearn – entry point for UCR's Blackboard installation
Technology and Instruction for UNEX – Weblog for instructors using technology online or face to face.
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Blackboard
UCR help page for Blackboard
Blackboard Quick Tutorials – Flash video, no sound
More Blackboard Quick Tutorials – Flash, video, no sound
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Northeastern University – text and screenshots (Quicktour, Before you get started, Planning your course, Building your course, Managing your course)
Ryerson University Video Tutorials – Quicktime video
University of Cincinnati – "Blackboard Basics & Beyond: An instructor's guide"
University of Miami Video Tutorials for students and instructors – Flash video
University of Queensland – Tip sheets and tutorials
University of Texas – Step by step, text + screenshots
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Instructional Design & Learning Theory
Resources for Online Learning – University of Maryland University College
Illinois Online Network – Instructional Strategies for Online Courses
Instructional Design Resources
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Designing Courses – Instructional Design for Online Learning – list of resources
Hitchhiker's Guide to Course Development – presented as a Moodle Course
Principles of Online Design – Florida Gulf Coast University
Some characteristics of learners, with teaching implications – R.I.T.
Strategies for utilizing online course tools
Theory into Practice database – "a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators."
Web-based Instruction – Strategies for using the web in instruction
What Makes a Successful Online Student?
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Creating an Online Syllabus
Creating an effective online syllabus – Maryland faculty online
The Interactive Syllabus: A Resource-based, Constructivist Approach To Learning – Sylvie Richards
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Presentations
Presentation Zen – an excellent resource for anyone who creates presentations. Lots of examples, critiques and links to other helpful sites.
Sociable Media – Articles related to designing presentations, including Five Ways to Reduce PowerPoint Overload
Profcast – software for converting presentations into podcasts (Mac)
Slideshare – share your presentations online (no audio).
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Copyright
University of Texas crash course in copyright
TEACH Act – summary from Copyright Clearance Center [PDF]
TEACH Toolkit – An online resource for understanding copyright and distance education.
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Campus Guide to Copyright Compliance
Copyright Basics
Copyright Advisory Network – American Library Association's Web site with forums, resources and a weblog.
Slow Start for Long-Awaited Easing of Copyright Restriction by Dan Carnevale – explains the TEACH Act and how it applies to online courses
TEACH Act best practices using Blackboard
TEACH Act: Frequently Asked Questions – from Penn State University
TEACH Act Scenarios
University of California Copyright Education Web Site
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Video
Free Online Video Resources Mini Guide
Internet Archive – freely downloadable movies and TV shows
Izzy Video – weekly video podcast on the use of digital video
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Podcasting
Audacity – free, open source software for audio recording (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Levalator – free software helps adjust audio levels in your podcast (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Rod's Pulse Podcast – weekly podcast covering Blackboard and related technologies for instruction
Teaching with Blackboard – podcast from Northern Illinois University, "providing tips, ideas, suggestions, and best practices of teaching with the Blackboard learning management system."
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Journals, Newsletters and Other Publications Related to e-Learning
EDUCAUSE Review – covers IT in higher education.
elearn magazine – "Education and Technology in perspective"
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EDUCAUSE Quarterly – "practitioner's journal for college and university managers and users of information resources—information, technology, and services."
elearningreviews – "elearning-reviews provides those interested in research on elearning with concise and thoughtful reviews of relevant publications."
Innovate
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning – "a refereed journal to advance research, theory and best practice in open and distance learning worldwide"
Journal of Distance Education
Journal of Interactive Online Learning – National Center for Online Learning Research
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching – "a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education"
Learning Circuits – "ASTD's source for e-learning"
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Online Tools
Blogger – free weblog service; integrates with Google Docs
Google Docs – word processor and spreadsheet with collaborative features
Google Reader – online feed reader allows you to subscribe to weblogs and other Web sites with RSS and Atom feeds. A good way to keep up with multiple Web sites without visiting each site every day.
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Organizations
AACE – Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
AECT – Association for Educational Communications and Technology
ASTD – American Society for Training and Development
EDUCAUSE – "a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology."
ISTE – International Society for Technology in Education
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Blogs
elearningpost – "Explore news, views and stories around Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management and more. "
New Media News – "What communication experts need to know"
Online Learning Daily
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Accidental Pedagogy – "Glenda Morgan on research and practice in academic technology in higher education."
Dan Mitchell's Teachnology Blog – "This is a personal web site sharing news and opinions about teaching and learning and technology, with occasional emphasis on the use of weblogs in education".
E-Learning Queen – "The E-Learning Queen explores all manner of online and distributed raining and education, from instructional design to the construction and implementation of entire E-learning solutions.
elearnspace – "learning, networks, knowledge, technology, community"
EdTechPost – "Technologies for learning, thinking & collaborating"
Educate Innovate – the Blackboard blog about the convergence of education and technology
Jane's eLearning Pick of the Day
Tama's elearning blog – "I am an avid blogger, with a strong interest in digital culture from the rise of the blogosphere to changing landscapes of commercial media in the face of participatory culture"
The Thinking Stick – Jeff Utecht
Weblogg-ed – Will Richardson
Will at Work Learning – "Will Thalheimer's research-based commentary on learning, performance, and the industry thereof."
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Wikis
Elliot Masie's Learning Wiki – "Content, Context, Community & Collaboration about Learning!"
Teaching Hacks – "The guiding idea behind this wiki is the creation of a learning tool to assist educators in helping their students develop skills to prepare them for the future."
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Books & Other Print Materials
Blackboard for Dummies
ISBN: 978-0-471-79832-3
384 pages, May 2006
Collaborating Online: Learning Together in Community
Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt
ISBN: 978-0-7879-7614-9
128 pages, October 2004
e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning
Ruth Clark, Richard E. Mayer
ISBN: 978-0-7879-6051-3
336 pages
Engaging the Online Learner: Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction
Rita-Marie Conrad, J. Ana Donaldson
ISBN: 978-0-7879-6667-6
144 pages, January 2004
QuickSource Blackboard Guides (Instructor and Student editions) $4.00 each
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Web Sites
50 lessons – "Fifty Lessons works closely with the world's most successful business leaders to capture, store and pass on their most important learning experiences, in the form of short and powerful videos."]
Directory of free eLearning Tools – Jane Hart
National Center for Academic Transformation – "Experts in improving learning and reducing cost in higher education"
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Sources for Course Materials
American Memory – historical materials from the Library of Congress
Annenberg Media Learner.org – Teacher resources and teacher professional development programming for K-12 teachers
Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative – "A collection of "cognitively informed," openly available and free online courses and course materials that enact instruction for an entire course in an online format. "
Educational Road Map to the Web – from THE Journal & netTrekker
Illinois Online Network – "A selected assortment of resources provided by the Illinois Online Network."
Johns Hopkins OpenCourseWare – "The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses. As challenges to the world's health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public's health and their potential solutions."
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators – "categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning."
MERLOT – Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
MIT OpenCourseWare – "a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world."
Notre Dame University OpenCourseWare – "Notre Dame OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world."
The Open University's OpenLearn Web site – "free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world"
The SCOUT Report – Since 1994, the Internet Scout Project has focused on research and development projects that provide better tools and services for finding, filtering and delivering online information and metadata. – email and online newsletter
Tufts University OpenCourseWare – "Tufts OpenCourseWare (OCW) seeks to capitalize on the potential of the internet to eliminate borders and geographic distance as obstacles to the instantaneous exchange of knowledge and new ideas."
Utah State OpenCourseWare – "Utah State OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational material used in our formal campus courses, and seeks to provide people around the world with an opportunity to access high quality learning opportunities."
World Lecture Hall – Free online course materials
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