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"The Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP) develops and distributes teaching and advising materials and provides services to teachers of psychology at all levels on behalf of The Society for the Teaching of Psychology. OTRP Materials are Peer-Reviewed "

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.

A list of UCF teaching online faculty resources.

Training To request Essentials training to teach in Webcourses@UCF for the first time, please visit: Essentials The Webcourses@UCF manual is available online in PDF via the myUCF portal at myUCF under Academic Resources>Fac Webcourses@UCF Resources.

The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning is your host for your Academic New Faculty Orientation. The one-and-a-half-day event is scheduled for August 17-18, 2009 in the Student Union and Classroom 1 buildings on the Orlando Campus. Each day of the orientation is filled with important activities that will provide valuable information to enable you to have a successful start to your career at UCF. At the Academic Orientation you will meet the President, Provost, Deans, Chairs, Directors, and other new faculty. These days also include breakfast and luncheon events.

The Faculty Center at UCF was created to serve faculty. Their primary mission is to support and promote faculty in their roles as teachers, researchers, scholars, and as members of UCF and the Central Florida community. Their services, resources, and events are available to all university instructors, including full-time and part-time faculty and graduate teaching assistants.

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.

"Teaching Peer Review Teaching Peer Review Web Part Menu "

Learning Objects Plagiarism and Academic Integrity This section includes web links on the above subjects to a collection of online teaching tools developed by the Center for Intellectual Property to be used by the wider higher education community. For more teaching resources on these subjects please see VAIL, the Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory.

The Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness supports UCF faculty in formulating and implementing research on effective teaching practices in higher education. If you are a UCF faculty member with an idea for classroom research, please contact us! Visit our links to see the services we can provide, see our faculty research showcase for ongoing classroom-based research, or examine results from our ongoing Distributed Learning Impact Evaluation.

The RITE group supports UCF faculty in formulating and implementing research on effective teaching practices in higher education. An earlier version of their presentation during their IDL6543 seminar is also available at their Web site.

So, use this handy checklist to see whether you are ready to use the TEACH Act:

The Online@UCF Support provides immediate and personal support for faculty and staff who offer online Webcourses@UCF. Supporting a wide range of online faculty needs, Online@UCF Support offers phone, e-mail, and scheduled face-to-face support sessions, as well as group workshops throughout the academic year.

Deliberations on teaching and learning in higher education

Assessment reference resources from UCF Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning

The MERLOT ELIXR Initiative offers a digital case story repository that hosts over 60 discipline-specific multimedia stories. Digital stories for faculty development can provide real-life experiences of exemplary teaching strategies and the process of implementing them. These digital case stories can be used freely in faculty development programs and also accessed by individual instructors.

The ChemCollective is an online resource repository for Teaching and Learning Chemistry.

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.

Webcourses@UCF Learning Online Orientation

Research has demonstrated that an important factor in student success in university studies is the opportunity for students to work in groups. While many academics would like to include group work, there is often hesitation because of bad experiences when groups have fallen apart and have failed to complete the tasks or left the work to one or a few students who have felt badly put upon.

Distributed learning policies at UCF recognize the variety of distributed learning modes and the evolving and respective stages of development of each mode. Therefore, the following policies are couched in terms of the delivery mode, as well as the stage of development of a specific mode and the instructor's experience and level of involvement. Policies are provided for assignment, compensation, reuse of materials and software, intellectual property rights, and academic freedom. Policies herein apply existing University policies or Board of Regents - United Faculty of Florida (BOR-UFF) Bargaining Agreement requirements to Distributed Learning (DL) teaching and learning environments.

MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.