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Here are ten best practices for anyone just getting started in the online environment. Research and experience suggest that these practices contribute to an effective, efficient and satisfying teaching and learning experience for both faculty and students. Using these practices can help develop confidence, comfort, and experience in teaching online.

"Sloan-C community peer-reviewed techniques, strategies, and practices in online education."

To help make quality online education accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, the members of the Sloan-C community share techniques, strategies, and practices in online education that have worked for them. All effective practices are peer reviewed to insure quality and to give submitters some documentation for tenure and promotion files.

"As a core project, a university eLearning Pedagogy Faculty Learning Community (FLC) chose to apply recommendations for the "art" of good teaching to the online realm. There is relatively little discussion of this issue in the literature. In this paper, we use Bain's (2004) book What the Best College Teachers Do to discuss some of the major ways that the practices of effective teaching in general can be applied to online teaching in particular. Specifically, we explore methods of fostering student engagement, stimulating intellectual development, and building rapport with students when teaching online. This analysis provides a much-needed "art of teaching" set of recommendations that complements the "science of teaching" best practices approach to online pedagogy. "

Good article. Takes the characteristics of best college teachers and applies it to teaching in an online environment. Three major Characteristics: Fostering Student Engagement Stimulating Intellectual Development Building Rapport with Students

The articles contained in the report will help you establish online instructor best practices and expectations, and includes principles of effective online teaching.

"Video Primers in an Online Repository for e-Teaching & Learning"

"Dr. Curt Bonk, Professor in Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, in a video series addressing the design and best practices of Distance Education courses. "

I like the idea of this, but not the implementation.

Practical tips for teaching online

Good list of things to do when designing the course. The list then expands to describe of each of the design elements you can integrate. Covers a wide variety of topics from course design to assessment and interaction.

Practical tips from a Sloan-C award for Excellence in Online Teaching winner

Good article. Focuses mainly on using discussion boards in a class and using them to engage the students. Talks a little about rubrics. A little dated, form 2004.

Award program sponsored through Blackboard for course that demonstrate best practices in: Course Design, Interaction & Collaboration, Assessment and Learner Support. 

I agree the first link is not the best. Maybe we could also link to the course tours of the award winners. The first link is to the 2011 winners. It is difficult to directly link to the tours of the 2012 & 2013 Exemplary course awards. http://kb.blackboard.com/display/EXEMPLARY/Exemplary+Course+Program http://www.blackboard.com/About-Bb/Catalyst-Awards/2013-Winners.aspx

Maybe we should use the direct link to the Rubric but then also provide info on how to view course tours that demonstrate the qualities of the Bb ECP.

Created by the Office of Disability Support Services at Kansas State University to help faculty ensure course content is accessible, this website offers many useful resources. An accessibility checklist and how-to documents you can use to ensure that content is accessible at a basic level. Examples of what makes content accessible and why accessibility is important. Resources for more information and best practices for accessibility.

"This index represents a compilation of those activities to help instructors plan their online and hybrid courses."