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"Faculty development is a crucial and vital component to any college or university. For institutions with geographically dispersed faculty who are teaching online, in some cases for the very first time, faculty development takes on a new level of importance. Here the challenges are not only ensuring instructors understand the technical aspects of teaching online and have the instructional skills to meet online learners' needs, but also instilling a sense of community."

The Wisconsin Online Resource Center is a digital library of Web-based learning resources called "learning objects." The digital library of objects has been developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and produced by multimedia technicians who create the learning objects for the online environment. At present, 409 WTCS faculty members have authored learning objects. The Wisc-Online digital library contains 2542 objects that are accessible to all WTCS faculty at no cost and with copyright clearance for use in any WTCS classroom or online application. Other colleges, universities, and consortia from throughout the United States and around the world use the library with permission. Current use of the learning object repository exceeds 20,000 hits per day. Learning objects are designed and developed by a team of instructional designers, editors, technicians, and student interns.

"This guide provides information and resources available to faculty to help improve the critical thinking and information literacy skills of students. This page was created specifically for the Barton School of Business, but many of the links are applicable to all disciplines."

Free webhosting / domain for faculty.

Penn States Faculty Development Ning for Online and Continuing Education

from the CCCS Faculty Wiki

Introducing Microsoft Faculty Connection, your resource for technology news, customizable curriculum, free software downloads, and newsgroups.

Everyone seems to talk endlessly about the role smartphones and other mobile technologies play in today's classroom, especially when it comes to the best apps to get teachers organized and keep students learning. Higher ed has not inoculated itself against the spread, and ranks from the university president down to the lowliest of fresh meat tote around a smartphone or a tablet these days. Some, of course, benefit the faculty more than others, and the following prove pretty popular among professors these days.

In an environment where global economy, global collaboration, and global 'knowledge' are  the aspiration of many countries, the understanding of the complexities of plagiarism becomes  a global requirement that needs to be addressed by all educators and learners. This paper  considers a simple definition of plagiarism, and then briefly considers reasons why students  plagiarise. At Unitec NZ, Te Puna Ako: The Centre for Teaching and Learning Innovation  (TPA:CTLI) is working closely with faculty, managers, student support services and library  personnel to introduce strategies and tools that can be integrated into programmes and  curricula whilst remaining flexible enough to be tailored for specific learners. The authors  therefore provide an overview of one of the tools available to check student work for  plagiarism - Turnitin - and describe the academic Professional Development (PD)  approaches that have been put in place to share existing expertise, as well as help staff at  Unitec NZ to use the tool in pedagogically informed ways, which also assist students in its  use. Evaluation and results are considered, before concluding with some recommendations. It  goes on to theorise how blended programmes that fully integrate academic literacy skills and  conventions might be used to positively scaffold students in the avoidance of plagiarism.  Conference participants will be asked to comment on and discuss their institutions' approach  to supporting the avoidance of plagiarism (including the utilisation of PDS and other  deterrents), describe their own personal experiences, and relate the strategies they employ in  their teaching practice and assessment design to help their learners avoid plagiarism. It is  planned to record the session so that the audience's narratives can be shared with other  practitioners.

"From Passive Viewing to Active Learning: Simple Techniques for Applying Active Learning Strategies to Online Course Videos"

A new studio classroom inspired excitement and motivated productive feedback from early faculty and student users

What a great idea for faculty professional development or any kind of sustained, elearning that needs to occur over the summer months. Creative, motivational, feature-rich, easy to use.  Beautiful.

Just amazingly executed. I think I'm going to make this my annual professional development goal to get this sort of thing started here.

"Tge NROC is a growing library of high-quality course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement. NROC course content is an Open Educational Resource (OER) and is available at no cost for individual use here at our website. "

A digital library of classrooms using technology. The video classroom is a resource for K12 teachers, college faculty and pre-service teachers.

How to cultivate the growing need for Moodle amongst faculty using student teach-the-teacher program

This is a MUST-SEE if you're a Microsoft school. Spend some time here to see what they have to offer - for free. A great alternative to Google Docs if that's an issue. It's the reason for the x in .docx. Watch the recorded webcasts to learn more.

"Provide students, alumni, faculty, and staff with mobile, desktop, and Web-based applications to help them collaborate in K-12 schools and on college campuses, and create a community that lasts a lifetime."

Although you're not likely to see schools issuing an iPhone to every faculty and staff member, the fact is that the iPhone is a great tool for education. Whether you're a teacher, librarian, or other educator, there are a number of apps that can help you do your job better. Here, we'll take a look at 50 of these apps and what they can do for you.

"iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. iRubric School-Edition empowers schools with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards. Click. Click. Done. Scoring rubrics cannot be made any easier. Just pull up a rubric from the gradebook, click, click, and you're done. Rubric scores are automatically adjusted to the coursework grading scale and posted on the gradebook. All you have to do next is to press [save]. Students get a copy of the scored rubric securely... no more paperwork, no more calculations and no more confusion. Finally, spend more time teaching and less time grading. Only with iRubric. "

INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.\n\nINFOMINE is librarian built. Librarians from the University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, the University of Detroit - Mercy, and other universities and colleges have contributed to building INFOMINE.

BE SURE TO CLICK ON link at the bottom labeled other search tools...http://infomine.ucr.edu/guides/ WOWIE... Can search all the search engines, metacrawlers, white&yellowpages ETC.... AND the SUBJECT tab brings you to a screen http://infomine.ucr.edu/guides/subject.shtml that searched some of my favorite vetted web indexes including the Librarian's Internet Index! Great find - Show parent | Edit | Split | Delete | Reply

"This site contains tools and guidelines to use as a starting point to getting your students, faculty, and alumni ready and excited about what's coming."