Distance Learning, Faculty Research - Other Online Resources - Content
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Syllabus
World Lecture Hall publishes links to worldwide sites of faculty who are using the WWW to teach courses
Technology Tools for Today's Campuses access to a collection of 72 articles, presented in seven sections; articles have links to syllabi, student papers written on the Web, and reference sites
Distance Learning on The Net provides links to Colleges and Other Schools for on-line courses
Communication
Keeping Online Asynchronous Discussions on Topic identifies various techniques recommended and used by online instructors for keeping online learners on topic during asynchronous discussion. The techniques recommended most include: (1) designing thread questions that explicitly draw out the on-topic discussion, (2) provide guidelines to help better prepare students to stay on-topic, (3) rewording the original question when the instructor can identify that responses are going in the wrong direction and (4) frequently providing a summary discussion thread
Multimedia
Checklist for Evaluating Materials Designed Using Different Educational Media useful criteria to assess different materials and ways of using media
Quizzes
ERIC/AE Test Locator database contains descriptions of over 10,000 tests and research instruments
QuizStar allows faculty to create a custom online quiz and is only one of many
Lesson Plans
Merlot Multimedia Educational Resource is made by and for teachers and includes a searchable database of lesson plans in a variety of topics for the college classroom. Includes feedback from other instructors who have used the lesson plans
Web Reserch
WebQuest is an inquiry-based approach for designing activities where most or all of the information used by learners comes from the Web
Writing WebQuest for Your Classroom step by step, starting with examples of good/bad sites, templates, resources, how to open your WebQuest in Netscape and more.
Copyright
TBR Board Counsel Web Page is the TBR legal site. Select the "Distance Education and Intellectual Property" link.
fairuse.stanford.edu contains links for statutes, cases and issues, resources on the internet, and overview of copyright law
To Copy or Not to Copy addresses multimedia and music
Teachers' Toolbag addresses fair-use guidelines with plenty of examples
Understanding your Rights discusses copyrighted material and "fair use"
