Stage 3: Helping Faculty Learn to Cope with the Hazards of New Approaches to Teaching Before They Get Into Real Trouble

Texas A&M Resources

Center for Teaching Excellence Programs Site (http://www.tamu.edu/cte/programs.htm)
Faculty Learning Communities, Teaching Incentive Grants, Managing Student Learning Communities, and Consultation.

Getting Students to Participate Online (http://www.cvm.tamu.edu/wklemm/collab.htm)
Texas A&M’s Dr. Bill Klemm’s advice about online collaboration, conferencing and listservs.  See particularly: http://www.cvm.tamu.edu/wklemm/Eight%20Ways/8waystoengage.htm.

Instructional Technology Services  (http://www.tamu.edu/its)

Library of Handouts Online (http://www.tamu.edu/its/workshops/handouts.htm)
Lots of handouts, both about instruction and the technology itself, categorized and alphabetized within category

WebCT@listserv.TAMU.edu (unmoderated but light load)
Texas A&M University’s list for WebCT users with information about upgrades to WebCT, workshops, tips and assistance with WebCT.  You can subscribe or review the archives without subscription at http://listserv.tamu.edu/archives/webct.html.

External Resources

Australian National Training Authority Online Teaching and Learning Site (http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au/lsrsc/one/natproj/tal/index.htm)
From survey data collected from 53 online teachers (the middle portion of the long report is most interesting) to the research and development project (with scores of links about best pratices for designing online instruction), this site coherently presents the best practices found and refined by the Australian National Training Authority.

Best Educational E-Practices (online monthly journal)
A monthly journal of best practices for teaching with technology produced by Project Eagle at St. Petersburg College in Florida. Read the current issue or archived issues at http://www.spjc.edu/eagle/BEEP/issues.htm.

First Monday (published on the first Monday of each month)
A peer reviewed electronic journal about the Internet which seems focused on the issue of education currently.  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 both a resource and thought provoking. To subscribe or review the articles without subscribing, go to: http://www.firstmonday.dk/.
 
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.  See their current issue and archives at http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/issues.html.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (http://www.merlot.org/)
MERLOT is a free and open content resource for faculty and students in higher education.  While not as extensive as FREE (see below), 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!

Start Learning Java (http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/)
Sun created Java so why not go there for online tutorials?

Syllabus (published on Tuesdays)
An announcement list publishing news stories in education technology focused on news, trends, and resources for higher education.  To subscribe, go to http://lists.101com.com/, fill in the required information and the scroll down the page to the selection check box for Syllabus.  

Using Instructional Technology (http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itcon.html)
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.

TLT-SWG (published 2-3 times per week)
A highly moderated electronic discussion group focused on issues of teaching, learning, technology and educational change in higher education published in a digest format.  

Teaching at a Distance with Computers and Telecommunications (http://www.fae.plym.ac.uk/tele/tele.html)
Comprehensive.  Using the links on left menu bar, you can find everything from the definition of terms to the current research and newest technology in the area.

The Technology Source (published bimonthly)
From their web site: "The purpose of The Technology Source (ISSN 1532-0030), a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical published by the School of Education, UNC-Chapel Hill, is to provide thoughtful, illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations."  See the Internet magazine at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/.

Web-based Training (http://www.filename.com/wbt/)
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.