Course Development Resources

Accessibility: Designing for Students with Disabilities  
Information and resources to assist professors and production staff with designing all-access courses.

Faculty Development 101
Creating and teaching a course in this environment can be a new challenge for many faculty members, so to help you learn more about distance education in general and the World Campus in particular, Penn State has created this faculty development program.
https://courses.worldcampus.psu.edu/welcome/facdev101/

Faculty Online
Monument Information Resources (MIR) gives college faculty, bookstores, and publishers access to textbook data, including lists of top-selling titles by course and discipline, discussion forums, new title information, and a course materials information exchange.
http://www.facultyonline.com/

Interactive Multimedia Development
University of Texas at Austin site providing useful information about learning theories, multimedia development processes, design principles, and software programs related to interactive multimedia production and design.
http://www.edb.utexas.edu/multimedia/

Teach2000: The Educator's Guide to the Internet and the World Wide Web
This section focuses on pedagogy, specifically, instructional strategies and tools for enhancing classroom learning using the Internet and World Wide Web in schools and in postsecondary institutions. We'll explore some of the current hot issues in education and technology. Finally, we'll examine tips for developing school and class websites and look at ways to make the transition from traditional forms of teaching and learning to more collaborative, project-based and student centered forms of learning.
http://geocities.com/theteacherlinks/index.htm

Teaching with Technology
This University of Oregon site includes some material that is specific to UO, but also has a wealth of useful ideas on topics such as enriching discussions with technology, improving lectures, and online assessment.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Etep/technology/index.html

Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT )
An educational web tutorial introducing research sources and skills. The TILT material introduces students to research methods and evaluation tools for using digital references as citations. We highly recommended this material for First Year Online students, as well as students needing a refresher course in electronic researching methods. Must fill out a registration form in order to access.
http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

UMUC-Bell Atlantic Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology
Provides resources for use in the selection of appropriate media to accomplish specific learning objectives and for faculty using technology in research assignments, small group projects, and discussions to encourage activity.
http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/

VirtualSalt
Includes articles for educators about technology, teaching tips, anti-plagiarism strategies, and other tools.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/