Links to websites that feature virtual learning experiences that expose online visitors to the history, geography, literature, government and for different places around the world.
This website is designed as a resource for individuals with varying levels of course design experience to assist them in developing and enhancing courses for higher education.
Download Individual Chapters of this handbook. Chapters are listed below:
Trends and Issues with Online Learning
1. From Reluctant and Reticent to Engaged and Enthusiastic: The Passage to Online Teaching by Susan Giullian
2. Preparing Special Education Teachers Through Online Instruction
Donna Sobel
3. Using eCollege to Facilitate Learning, Provide for Program Coherence, Manage Accountability Innovations, and Ensure the Evolution of a Principal Licensure Program by Connie Fulmer
4. Make, Share, Find: Web 2.0 and Informal Learning by Phil Antonelli
Technology in Action
5. The Advantages of a Ning Social Network Within a Higher Education Program by Laura Summers
6. Fresh and Forward-thinking: Using Blogs for Educational Purposes by Joanna C. Dunlap & Ellen Stevens
7. Hanging on by a Thread by Dorothy F. Garrison-Wade
8. Instructional Uses of Twitter by Joanna C. Dunlap & Patrick R. Lowenthal
9. Using Audio for Giving Feedback to Project Teams: A Useful Complement to Track Changes by Brent G. Wilson
10. Wordle… Just for Phluff? by Joanna C. Dunlap
11. A Teaching Video Project Brought to Closure by Farah A. Ibrahim
12. Improving the Design of PowerPoint Presentations by Patrick R. Lowenthal
This website contains a number of learning objects that are useful in designing online instruction for students. Click on the links in the link bar on the left to visit any of these subjects.
The websites listed here cover a wide range of informational and educational topics and include general reference resources, how-to guides, wikis, how-to videos, podcasts, courses, lessons, tutorials (including open courseware), e-books as well as other reference resources and places to ask questions both online and on your mobile.
The eXe project developed a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported in IMS Content Package, SCORM 1.2, or IMS Common Cartridge formats or as simple self-contained web pages.
This site has downloadable programs that allow anyone to generate their own e-Learning quizzes, games and applications through our custom software - no coding required
A list of 100 tools resources for developing your own online course. Their list includes Learning Management Systems, resources for getting your class online, resources for designing an online course, online course tools, how to teach an online course, student resources and, distance education blogs.