Emory College Strategies for Online Teaching

A good general listing of resources on women's issues, but also has the ability to use the subject heading to research specific issues for women

The uphill struggle to implement OER at a university.

Edutopia's compilation of OERs for writing. Among my favorites is Andrea Walsh's MIT course on expository writing: Analyzing Mass Media.

One of the best resources in the world for people form across the university who are interested in teaching writing. This site is an open resource for books, journals, and teaching modules.

Since 1948 we have helped millions of students who are blind, dyslexic or have other learning disabilities achieve confidence and independence in the classroom and in life. More about our mission We work with our partners to raise awareness of learning differences.

When I was a graduate student, I volunteered with this organization (formerly known as Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic). I read fiction books and textbooks, recording in a booth on my own or with a director. Volunteers completed training to learn how to cue the audio reader to turn book pages, to transition between text and pictures or figures, and to indicate punctuations (ellipsis, quotations, subscript/superscripts, etc.). The experience helped me to improve the use of my voice in communicating to learners and the ways to chunk the information appropriate for visually impaired and dyslexic learners. As Learning Ally, the organization now offers professional development for teachers to help them with utilizing the wide range of audiobooks in their collection.

Online Images/Media: 2,207; Records: 2,296; Art Images for College Teaching

Smarthistory offers more than one thousand videos and essays on art from around the world and across time. We are working with more than one hundred art historians and some of the world's most important museums to make the best art history resource anywhere.

The theoretical difference between formative and summative assessment strategies is explored in this paper as well as the fact that on-line assessment is a new field of study with very little written about it.

This chapter presents a theoretical model of online learning, the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, which is grounded in John Dewey's progressive understanding of education. The CoI framework is a process model of online learning which views the

I've been working with hundreds of virtual team members in over 9 different countries in the past 8 years. There have been times when I wanted to tear my hair out! Sometimes: - I had no idea what my team was doing. - Team members would "flake out".

This link includes a useful summary of virtual team technology tools. I like this list because it is categorized by the function/goals for the team and needs for collaboration. A way for us to consider guiding our exploration of team tools for educational groups.

What's the best way to close the race and gender gap in technology? This article proposes that high school is the place to start.

The National Education Technology Plan, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology, calls for applying the advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to our entire education system to improve student learning, accelerate and scale up the adoption of effective practices, and use data and information for continuous improvement.

This is a succinct, two-page summary of OERs. It would be useful background to hand out to students.

CuriosityStream is the world's first SVOD service for premium factual content. Watch enriching, ad-free videos at any time and on any device. I have used their video on the Crusades to bring meaning to a very removed period for students.

A listing of resources for fine art, art history, and some music composition.

Georgia Tech Research on Accessible Distance Education (GRADE) is a research project at the Georgia Tech Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA). Provides actual modules showing how courses that present challenges due to their nature (engineering, mathematics) or inclusion of rich media can be designed to increase accessibility.

The focus that I respond to is on UDL being an expansion of the way we learn and teach, not a separate idea.

This is a succinct summary of the UDI goals in creating a course.