News
Resources
So You Want to Teach Online? - sponsored by Ohio Board of Regents - Learning tool containing four modules demonstrating effective online teaching practices. Modules address your role as an instructor, online pedagogy, copyright, and assessment.
Ten Tech Tools (Faculty Online)
Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, byArthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson
Faculty, Copyright Law and Online Course Materials, by Phyllis C. Sweeney, PhD
Southeastern Louisiana University
Tips and Tricks for Teaching Online – Dallas Baptist University
Assessment Primer – University of Connecticut
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (Free)
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
Hippocampus - Multimedia lessons and course materials to enhance instruction and help students with homework and studies. - The Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
Subject-Specific Resources
AMSER – Applied Math and Science Education Repository
Valley of the Shadow - American Civil War project - all documents are online - University of Virginia Library and the Virginia Center for Digital History
History Engine, Tools for Collaborative Education and Research - The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work—researching, writing, and publishing—of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in their online database. - University of Richmond
ArtStor, Images for Education and Scholarship - image database with a collection of over a million images from around the world. The collection of .jpgs come from the collections dealing with anthropology, historical sites or personages, costumes, musical instruments, painting, sculpture, architecture, and drawing.
Human Physiology Animations Homepage at Connecticut College (note: animations require free download - Adobe Shockwave Player) - resource from Connecticut College provides illustrative animations that include "Muscle", "Endocrine", "Circulatory", and "Digestive" as well as tutorials, quizzes, and explanatory sections that talk about the key processes within each system.
American English Dialect Recordings - The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection-The American Memory Project - contains 118 hours of recordings documenting North American English dialects. The recordings include speech samples, linguistic interviews, oral histories, conversations, and excerpts from public speeches. They were drawn from various archives, and from the private collections of fifty collectors, including linguists, dialectologists, and folklorists.
Articles
Google to Caption YouTube Videos - New York Times article (November 19, 2009) by Miguel Helft - The move is the first major step toward making millions of videos accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people.
UCLA study finds that searching the Internet increases brain function, By Rachel Champeau
Using YouTube as a Study Aid - Students are turning to tutorial math videos when by-the-book learning falls short, Associated Press, December 15, 2008
10 tips on Being a Good Twitterer, by Chris Pirillo (CNN)
E-Learning and Its Challenges Increase at Community Colleges - From The Wired Campus (The Chronicle of Higher Education), April 15, 2009
Open Course Ware
Utah State OpenCourseWare - Utah State University
University of Oregon, Department of Physics – Physics Applets
Open Learning Initiative, Carnegie Mellon
The National Repository of Online Courses - Monterey Institute for Technology and Education supported by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
OER Commons (Open Education Resources) - Find Free-to-Use Teaching and Learning Content from around the World
