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Websites
and listservs of your professional organization for discipline-specific
resources, archives, and teaching ideas
- Resources for Moderators and Facilitators of Online Discussion, Mauri Collins and Zane L. Berge: Although Collins and Berge emphasize effective use and management of instructional e-mail lists, most of the theory and practice adapts easily to threaded Web discussion forums like WebBoard and the forums within BlackBoard or WebCT. Of particular interest is the link to Guidelines for Moderating Online Educational Computer Conferences by David Winograd.
- American
Center for Study of Distance Education, Pennsylvania State University:
This respected organization's Website lInks to the site for the journal,
The Distance Education Online Symposium (DEOS), and other resources.
- Distance
Learning on the Net, Glenn Hoyle: This independent site by
an academic-now-Web developer is a helpful gateway to technology in
education.
- Distance
Education Clearinghouse, University of Wisconsin: Updated
often, this site is both a gateway and a newsletter that highlights
featured sites.
- Instructional
Development and Technology Sites Worldwide, Dalhousie University:
This gateway from Nova Scotia has an international emphasis.
-
Tomorrow's
Professor: email subscription and web access to articles
about "academic life, preparing for the professorate, and
new approaches to teaching, learning, and research" (Rick
Reis, Stanford U Learning Lab)
- Internet
Scout Project: email subscription and web access to "a
selection of the newest and most interesting high-quality online science,
math, engineering and technology resources.... of interest to all
ages of readers...." (National Science Digital Library)
- CIT
Infobits: email subscription news from "information and
instructional technology sources" (UNC-Chapel Hill Center for
Instructional Technology)
- Edupage:
email subscription news about information technology from EDUCAUSE,
"whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the
intelligent use of information technology"
- Webquest
Page: "inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all
of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web.... to focus
on using information...[for] analysis, synthesis and evaluation"
(Bernie Dodge and Tom March, San Diego State U)
- Chronicle
of Higher Education: job lists and selected articles are free;
others available only to print-edition subscribers—news on disciplinary
and general education as well as information technology and distance
education
- Asynchronous
Learning Networks: journal, magazine, workshops, and conferences
focusing on "computer and communications technologies [primarily
the Web] to work with remote learning resources, including coaches
and other learners, but without the requirement to be online at the
same time"
- World Lecture Hall
Database of Faculty Websites, University of Texas-Austin:
Teachers submit their own classes for this database categorized by
discipline. Most are Web-enhanced rather than online classes. You
might have to search through quite a few listings to find a useful
resource, but usually you will find success.
- American
Memory Collection: "primary source materials relating
to the history and culture of the United States.... 7 million digital
items from more than 100 historical collections"
- New
York Times Circuits: weekly email of technology news, tips,
and commentary by David Pogue, State of the Art columnist
- Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence: 30-plus government agencies
in partnership with educators provide resources in a variety of disciplines,
mostly for K-12 with some useful for higher education
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