http://www.merlotx.org/ is the main site for the online textbooks of all different categories. The link above is for Literature but the merlotx.org site covers just about every subject. Merlot itself is a great resource but this subsection can be very useful.
This article provides 10 strategies to integrate Twitter in the College Classroom. My favorites include: a) creating a course hashtag to build learning community and share relevant news and content with the class me.mbers, and b) provide basic Twitter training and an overview of Twitter terms and language
This blog is really useful for Apps - as they say, there are an overwhelming number of them and they cull through to find the best in various disciplines.
The statistical software language R is open-source with free download for Windows PCs. It's a bit cumbersome to learn with the help manuals running to 4,000 pages of "stream of consciousness" thinking. However, it's very powerful, and will readily do things that (say) Excel cannot do. Scripts can be saved to Word documents for later re-use.
Nice plain language account of online teaching from a happy veteran.
Michelle Everson has been teaching online for five years. Here, she shares the top 10 best practices she has learned about online teaching.
Performance assessment, also known as alternative or authentic assessment, is a form of testing that requires students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list. For example, a student may be asked to explain historical events, generate scientific hypotheses, solve math problems, converse in a foreign language, or conduct research on an assigned topic. Experienced raters--either teachers or other trained staff--then judge the quality of the student's work based on an agreed-upon set of criteria. This new form of assessment is most widely used to directly assess writing ability based on text produced by students under test instructions
The Memrise learning method is based on spaced repetition. You get to see and hear each word several times during each lesson, and you have to do short, simple exercises between words so that you can be sure you are remembering everything correctly.
The interface of the course is super user-friendly and completely bilingual.