Resources

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Teaching Tips

 

• Accessibility and Universal Design
• Designing Tests to Maximize Learning
• Minimize Cheating in Online Courses
• Beyond Prejudice
• Taking It Global
• Webquest 101 – Putting Discovery into the Curriculum
• Webquest Tutorial
• Portfolio Tutorial
• How Users Read on the Web
• The 10 Second Rule: How to Write for the Diagonal Reader 
• Is Text-Only Enough for Today's Students?  
• 25 Engaging Interactions for eLearning
• Calibrated Peer Review 

 

Web 2.0

 

• Blogs, Wikis, and New Media (open course by David Wiley)
• Faculty Web Presence
• Shift Happens - video
• A Web of Connections: Why the Read/Write Web Changes Everything
• Web 2.0 Videos
• Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators A Guide to RSS and More Version 2.0
• List of Educational Feeds to Add to Your ETUDES Course
• EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About Series
• Collaborative White Boards 1, 2, 3

 

Academic Integrity

 

• Avoiding Plagiarism

• Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words"

 

Articles

 

• Camera in student homes to detect cheating in online tests
• Study about Social Networking
• Creating & Connecting - Research and Guidelines on Online Social — and Educational — Networking

 

Journals

 

• Distance education journals

 

Educational Games

 

• The Cost of Life
• Consumer Consequences 

 

Mind Mapping Software

 

 

• bubbl.us is a free web based brainstorming application. Allows collaboration and posting mind maps to the web. (Requires Flash)
• Gliffy - a freeware web based mind mapping and drawing application.
• IHMC CmapTools is a freeware web based mind mapping application. It allows for online collaboration within the mindmaps.
• Mapul is a silverlight-based collaborative mind mapping tool having many features: collaboration, posting maps in web, free-float texts and images, hyperlinks, color and fonts, etc.. Free version provides up to 8 maps and unlimited shared maps.
• Mind42.com is a free, online mind-mapping application. Online collaboration is possible with 2 or more users - plus integration of resulting maps into blogs, linking with web-pages, inclusion of graphics in the mind-map, attachments such as wikipedia articles and notes to the mind-map, rich text along with nodes.
• Mindomo is a free web-based (flash player is necessary) mind mapping application with an impressive set of features: rich text topics, rich text notes, hyperlinks, task info, topic images, various topic layouts, boundary around topics, outline export, etc...
• MindMeister is a 100% web-based collaborative mindmapping tool. Using only a standard web browser you can manage your own mindmaps, or collaborate with others in real-time on the same mindmap in brainstorming mode. This works on a subscription model - free use provides up to 6 mindmaps. 
• Compendium is a free mind mapping application created by the Open University (Requires Java runtime).

 

Online Course Development

 

• 7 Key Steps to Online Course Development 

 

Student Portfolios

 

• In Search of Student-Generated Content in Online Education
• Classroom Assessment Techniques - Portfolios 

 

Tools

 

• Zamzar - free file conversion
• PowerPoint to Flash Converter
• SlideShare - Powerpoint slideshow webpage hosting
• Spoken Text - free text to audio converter
• Jing - screen capture software
• Shorten URLs 

 

Content

 

• UC Berkeley Lectures on YouTube
• Thoughtware.tv - Documentary videos online
• Free Online Education list

 

 Journals

• Perspectives in Quality Online Education www.sloan-c.org/publications/view/
• Journal of Distance Education http://www.cade-aced.ca/pub_jde_pub_article.php?i_nMode
• European Journal of Open, distance and E-learning http://www.eurodl.org/
• The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl
• EDUCAUSE Review http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/index.asp  
• Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration

 

Background about Distance Education and eLearning

 

• Bonk, C. J. (2004, June). http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/part2.pdf">The perfect e-storm: Emerging technologies, enormous learner demand, enhanced pedagogy, and erased budgets.
• Sloan Reports (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). 
• Sizing the Opportunity: The quality and extent of online education in the United States, 2002 and 2003. Needham, MA: Sloan-C. 
• Growing by degrees: Online education in the United States, 2005 
• Making the grade: Online education in the United States. The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C).  
• Thirty-two trends affecting distance education: An informed foundation for strategic planning. 
• Theoretical challenges for distance education in the 21^st century: A shift from structural to transactional issues.

 

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