"ION is always trying to further the knowledge of online education. In the course of our research and practice, we come across many best practices in online teaching. This index represents a compilation of those activities to help instructors plan their online and hybrid courses. A complete description of each activity is given, along with examples when possible. "
A good resource of online teaching activities such as - Case Studies, ice breakers, jigsaw, peer editing, role playing, etc.
If you are designing or re-designing an online class, look here for inspiration.
"The Online Teaching Guide was developed by faculty members from the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) under the guidance of the Duke Center for Instructional Technology (CIT). The work of this group culminated in this resource for faculty members who want to enhance their ability to plan effective online learning experiences for students. This guide serves as a user-friendly and practical tool to assist faculty in planning and implementing online courses."
"Second life does provide social presence through the avatars we use, lots of opportunities for role play (let's face it, it is at a minimum a role play game), and yes it is immersive, allowing you to experience human from inside the cell walls or visit a detailed simulation of the Cistine Chapel. But the real power of Second Life as a virtual venue for your teaching and learning is the ability to translate real content into something really exciting and powerful. That of course is where the difficulty lies isn't it?"
This document is only a few pages long with paragraphs that succinctly address:
* Online Mentoring and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - revisited
* Reimaging Teacher Education
* Global Research Challenges
Attached is a document from Faculty Focus on teaching with technology. These documents are collections of short pieces on the particular topic … and Faculty Focus has LOADS of topics. You can find that list of topics at http://www.facultyfocus.com/free-reports/. All reports are free, but in order to download them, you have to register (i.e., enter your e-mail address and create a password). Once you register, you will get regular announcements from Faculty Focus when new reports come out. Sometimes the e-mails are about reports you've already been notified of, but most of the time it's new stuff. Well, now that you know about this great resource, I will assume that those of you who are interested will register and get your own announcements. I, therefore, will not be cluttering up your Inbox with any more of these things … though you can expect notices when other kinds of things come out that might be of interest to you.
Theresa M. "Terry" Valiga, EdD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Professor & Director, Institute for Educational Excellence
This is a good example of what we are trying to acheive with the IOM modules in the iNet Project. This Quiz show module teaches about misconception regarding minority health in the U.S. It is creative, simple, and fun to play. Check it out!
A teachign and learning material repository built by the Consortium for Health Professions Educators at Duke.
This site "provides links to information and internal and external resources to help faculty in many areas" concerning the scholarship of teaching and technology innovations. Also, the builders hope that faculty will participate and " contribute ideas, experiences, questions, resources, and so on."
"The website is considered to be a "living" resource that will change continually
and to which each faculty member may contribute ideas, experiences, questions,
resources, and so on."
ABSTRACT
This paper reports the findings of a case study in which audio feedback replaced text-based feedback in
asynchronous courses. Previous research has demonstrated that participants in online courses can build
effective learning communities through text based communication alone. Similarly, it has been
demonstrated that instructors for online courses can adequately project immediacy behaviors using textbased
communication.
Copyright issues were one of the topics at the iNet conference this year. And, DUSON will hold a Teaching Conversation with the same speaker, Kevin Smith, in January.
The site has been designed to increase understanding of important and sometimes difficult concepts and principles in Clinical Pharmacology. It is not intended to be comprehensive for all aspects of Clinical Pharmacology teaching. It has been developed using Macromedia Flash to enable user interaction.
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