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Stage 2: Helping Faculty to Use the Technology to Make a Better Course
Electronic Lists
Syllabus (published on Tuesdays)
This announcement list publishes news stories in education technology focused on news, trends, and resources for higher education. To subscribe, select the "Free Magazine Subscription" box, and fill in the required information.
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TLT-SWG (2-3 times per week)
This highly moderated electronic discussion group focuses on issues of teaching, learning, technology, and educational change in higher education. It is published in a digest format. - This Texas A&M list for WebCT users (unmoderated but light
load) contains information about upgrades to WebCT, workshops, tips and
assistance with WebCT. Subscribe or review the
archives without subscription.
Electronic Publications
- The
Australian Journal of Educational Technology (peer reviewed,
annual online journal)
- The Australian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) is a refereed journal publishing research and review articles in educational technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies, educational telecommunications and related areas. AJET is supported by three scholarly associations.
- Best Educational E-Practices (online monthly journal)
- This is a monthly journal of best practices for teaching with
technology produced by Project Eagle at St. Petersburg College in
Florida.
Innovate: Journal of Online Education (bimonthly)- "Innovate is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical (ISSN 1552-3233) published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings. Our basic assumption is that innovative uses of technology in one sector can inform innovative uses of technology in each of the other sectors." (About)
- IEEE Journal of Educational
Technology and Society(quarterly)Educational Technology &
Society has academic articles on the issues affecting the developers of
educational systems and educators who implement and manage such
systems.
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First Monday (published the first Monday of each month)
This is a peer-reviewed electronic journal about the Internet, which sometimes focuses on the issue of education. Academics and senior technologists serve as the editorial board. With recent articles (complete with references) titled “The Work of Education in the Age of E-College” and “Internet Teaching and the Administration of Knowledge,” First Monday is a thought-provoking resource.
Instruction
Instructional
Technology Services at Texas A&M
This site offers information designed to help faculty members make
effective use of technology in the classroom.
Teaching
Online
From online assignments to full-blown distance education, here are
all the basics with checklists, practical tips, and suggestions. If you
read nothing else about computer-assisted instruction, read this
faculty handbook (in .pdf format).
Facilitating
Online Learning: A Primer
This document provides a structure for starting to teach online. It
covers the skills and attitudes instructors and students should have,
inducting students to an online learning environment, getting started,
and keeping the momentum. The links to wellspring.isinj.com take a
while to load, but they are very much worth your time.
Practical Strategies for Teaching Computer Mediated Classes
Eighteen higher education faculty members comment in writing to a
target article by Brent Muirhead of the University of Phoenix
Online. The article and discussions are supported by faculty
experiences, 30 references (some online), and many links to educational
sites. Six enumerated lists of things you can do are presented in the
text and comments. This is an incredible resource from IEEE's
Educational Technology group.
Using Instructional Technology
This well-organized site covers everything from theories and
philosophy to current research and best practices. Despite the name,
this site is an incredible resource, even if you are not adding
instructional technology to your course.
Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
This resource reviews over 50 years of research on teaching and
learning in college. Subsequent publications include the
following:
- Implementing
the Seven Principles: Technology as a Lever
- Seven Principles
Website and Library (more interactive, with examples
Increasing Student Collaboration Online
These are strategies for increasing student learning with email
lists without increasing your workload.
Getting Students to Participate Online
Texas A&M’s Dr. Bill Klemm’s advice about online collaboration,
conferencing and listservs. See particularly
Overviews and Examples of Strategies for Online Teaching
These are quick overviews of techniques for motivating, informing,
coaching, and evaluating online. Although the layout looks simplistic,
the links are full of practical ideas and methods.
Teaching at a Distance
This dissertation describes in non-technical language the components
that successful instructors use to foster synchronous learning. The
table of contents is a clickable map of the document.
WebCT Vista at Texas A&M University
WebCT Vista is a software package that can help you put your
syllabus on the web, post notes and information for your classes,
facilitate topic-based class discussions, and more without coding in
HTML or worrying about managing an account on a server. The site lists
both TAMU-specific resources, such as free faculty training and
information about course conversion, and general resources, such as
tutorials for instructors.
The Web
Do-it-yourself
Creation of Internet Courses
Texas A&M’s Dr. Bill Klemm’s offers this “Lessons Learned”
page.
Web Building
From the University of Texas Center for Instructional Technologies,
this site describes web authoring, information design, instructional
design, and more. While some of the information is only relevant to
faculty at UT, the tutorials (basic and intermediate) and design tips
(including accessibility) are applicable to all educators.
General Web Authoring Resource
This site is for professional web authors, designers, developers,
and strategists. While the monthly articles may be of interest to you,
the sections under “Tracks” on the left side menu have intermediate
level tips and practices.
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
MERLOT is a free and open content resource for faculty and students
in higher education. MERLOT allows for peer review of the sites, so you
have a little better guide to what you might want to use. A search on
“English Literature” brought up 14 pages, including an online writing
guide, a site about Chaucer, a Shakespeare site (of course), and
more.
Methods and Strategies
Offering ideas that go beyond just putting your course on the web,
Dr. Badrul H. Khan lists 19 categorical ways to use the web for
instruction, some with linked examples that other instructors have
submitted.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
This is a searchable index of hundreds of education resources
supported by the Department of Education. Start by typing the title of
your course into the search function because the categorical lists are
large and designed to appeal to K-12 educators even though a great deal
of content is appropriate for college instruction. A search on
“cognitive psychology” returned 10 pages, including cognitive
psychology applied to intelligence analysis and extensive information
about the language of thought hypothesis.
The WWW Virtual Library
These volumes of information indexed by discipline include links to
journals, directories, discussion forums, sub-disciplines and
fascinating information. The search engine is not very effective
because much of the information resides on sites other than vlib.org,
but the indexing is such that only a few clicks brings up content
pages.
Web-based Training (WBT)
This is an excellent design resource for those going to the next level of web integration in their teaching. The WBT Primer covers almost every angle, and the site has links to many resources.
