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*Welcome to the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program page. Here you will find a rubric to help you develop and assess engaging online courses, examples of courses rated as exemplary through the review process of the Exemplary Course Program, and information on how to submit your course to the 2009 Blackboard Exemplary Course Program. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us at ecp@blackboard.com. *

This article describes an ongoing informal study of a distance learning course that uses multiple emerging interactive media to increase and enhance students' participation. (The co-authors are, respectively, the course instructor and a doctoral student in education who took the course and conducted research on students' participation patterns.) First, we present the conceptual context underlying our vision of interactive media for learning; next, we describe the design of the course and the educational interactions this fosters; then, we analyze the learning outcomes that result from this instructional strategy; and finally we discuss the evolution of emerging interactive media. This structure parallels the "scholarship of teaching" framework presented in Randy Bass's article.

Course Management Effective course management planning during design and development can help the instructor to alleviate the potentially increased time spent in managing the online course.

An OpenCourseWare(OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality university‐level educational materials.  These materials are organized as courses, and often include course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content. OCW Consortium members from all over the world are publishing OCW in a variety of formats, subjects, and languages.  Here are some ways to find OCW.

Welcome to Online@UCF WHAT IS OFFERED ONLINE FROM UCF? Online@UCF offers four undergraduate degree completion programs, twelve graduate degree programs and twelve graduate certificates, plus hundreds of courses every semester from most academic areas. UCF also offers extensive resources and support services for students over the Web. The academic credits you receive are the same as credits received for face-to-face classes held on our various campuses. UCF's online programs are described in our Guide to Online Programs, and individual courses are listed in our online course search utility, and in the online catalog maintained by the Florida Distance Learning Consortium..

The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement*.

WebCT Campus Edition 6 incorporates a Who's Online feature that allows course participants to see who else is logged into the course at a given time and start a conversation with them.

A demo of a course instant messaging tool

"Creating and Formatting Questions with Respondus" New movie! Learn how to create and format questions with Respondus, including how to add images and equations. View Now "Publishing an Assessment to a Course Management System" New movie! See how to publish an assessment directly to your course management system using Respondus.

They worry about the quality of online courses, say teaching them takes more effort, and grouse about insufficient support. Yet large numbers of professors still put in the time to teach online. And despite the broad suspicion about quality, a majority of faculty members have recommended online courses to students.

Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts' course offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities.

The mission of Course Development & Web Services is to support teaching, learning, and research by being "all things Web" to UCF and its partners, helping UCF achieve its strategic goals with advanced applications of instructional and information technology. Services are provided systematically through professional development programs, consultations, projects, production, technical support, R&D, and other collaborative efforts.

Course Development & Web Services (CDWS) is a learning organization within the division of Information Technologies and Resources at the University of Central Florida (UCF).

Web Veteran Interview List Faculty members listed have taught at least twice and may teach more than one online (or partially online course). One sample course has been listed for each.

MIT OCW is a free Web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. An introductory video about this resource can be found here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tbQ-FeoEvTI .

Welcome to Quality Matters Quality Matters (QM) is a faculty-centered, peer review process designed to certify the quality of online courses and online components. Sponsored by MarylandOnline, Inc, Quality Matters has generated widespread interest and received national recognition for its peer-based approach to quality assurance and continuous improvement in online education. Originating from a FIPSE grant, Quality Matters is now a self-supporting organization offering institutional subscriptions and a range of fee-based services including Quality Matters-managed course reviews and an array of trainings.

Faculty Resources

Webcourses-News - This announcement-only listserv notifies all Webcourses@UCF users when there is an event effecting online courses, such as maintenance times. Webcourses - This opt-in general discussion listerv is for users to communicate with each other about what they are doing in their online courses. List activity varies and members can unenroll themselves at any time. To subscribe to either of these listserves, please email itg@mail.ucf.edu with the name(s) of the list(s) you would like to join.

"In 1996, UCF established an institutional goal of expanding its services to include students who might not otherwise have access to higher education. The Center for Distributed Learning was created to leverage new opportunities for flexible, Web-based course delivery to benefit campus-based students as well as off-campus and distant students. UCF now offers over two dozen totally Web-based degree, degree-completion, and certificate programs, and hundreds of individual Web-based courses."

Teaching Online is a website that provides resources for UCF faculty who facilitate online courses.

UCF Teaching Online Website is the one-stop shop for all resources that you need to know about teaching an online course at UCF. It provides information on pedagogy, professional develoment, resources, forms, and system status.

Library Modules for WebCT Courses

Crash Course in Copyright Someone owns just about everything Fair use lets you use their things - But not as much as you'd like to Sometimes you have to ask for permission Sometimes you are the owner - think about that!

Online courses from the world's top scholars.