Further Resources: Sites with more articles and papers

Online E-learning Organizations and Projects

• Advisory Committee for Online Learning (Canada)
  "The Advisory Committee for Online Learning (ACOL) was created to advise ...on a co-ordinated approach for governments, universities, colleges, and the private sector to integrate online post-secondary learning into Canadian universities and colleges."
• TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence (TL•NCE)
  "TL•NCE stimulates and tracks leading telelearning research advances in collaboration with university and industry partners throughout the world. Over 60 faculty from 28 Canadian universities are evaluating the effectiveness of new learning models, analyzing the cost-benefits and social impact of implementing telelearning, and creating new educational technologies."
• Global Educators' Network
  "The Global Educators' Network is an international forum that aims to bring together communities of educators around the planet. GEN represents a powerful model for sharing ideas and leveraging experience and expertise in telelearning models and methods."
  World Wide Learn Directory of online courses, online learning and online education.
  

Pedagogy

• Teaching and Learning on the Internet: list of papers and resources from University of Colorado at Denver School of Education.
• Tips for using online discussion boards: this article by Kate Britt includes links to more discussion board resources.
• Web Tools for Learning: one-stop resource for university instructors interested in the World Wide Web as a teaching tool. Includes free teaching tools, newsletter and archives. From City University of Hong Kong.
• Educational Cyber Playground: long list of "Distance Education" related sites for educators, including technology, pedagogy, and articles.
• Journal of Computer Assisted Learning: papers on such topics as "approaches to the design of software training", "hypermedia and learning – cognitive perspectives", "assessing the impact of IT" and "meeting the challenge of new technologies".
• Instructional Design: papers from Nova Southeastern University.
  

Technology

• Pink Flamingo's Guide for Educators who are using WebCT: WebCT Tutorials (for students and teachers), converting materials to WebCT files, etc. by Kate Britt.
• Web-building Resources for Educators: covers HTML tutorials, web page design, accessibility (disability considerations), course content creation tools, and more resources for educators.
• Video Conferencing in Education: technical as well as pedagogical information on the use of video-conferencing in education.
• Respondus: allows WebCT users to create quizzes off-line and then upload them to WebCT. The Lite version is free and has a friendly interface.
• Educational Uses of Flash: Flash Api's, Macromedia's Flash showcase, educational examples of Flash, etc. Many more multimedia resources as well from the WebCT Users Conference in Missouri.
• Learning on the Web: From TeleEducation NB, extensive resources for designing and teaching online.
• See my section on E-Learning Content Creation Software for more.

Best Practices (examples of good online courses)

• I like the design of this page at ExploreMath.com. It makes good sense to let students view relevant info (broad model) on a course rather that having to burrow down through various paths to get the info the need (narrow and deep model)
• "Engineering and Sustainable Development" —A WebCT 2000 Exemplary Course Project Winner by Dr. Fiona Crofton, University of British Columbia, Canada.
  WebCT Exemplary Courses:
• U of Georgia: English, History, Math, Political Science, Science and Philosophy course outlines. login=webct_visitor, pw=webct.
• University of Hawaii-Manoa: Music 651: Foundations of Music. login=test, pw=dummy.
  

Research sources

• Teacher Navigator: meta list of teaching resources compiled by the NY Times.
• Learnframe: glossary of e-learning terms.
• my search page.

Newsletters

• The Virtual University Gazette: a digest of new programs and pressing issues in the virtual university movement.
• List of OTL newsletters at Pink Flamigo.
• World Wide Learn.
• Web Tools Newsletter: From City University of Hong Kong.
• The Technology Source: The purpose of The Technology Source 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. Many good articles covering a wide range of OTL topics.
• Global Educator's Network: Free online courses for online educators. "The Global Educators' Network is an international forum that aims to bring together communities of educators around the planet. GEN represents a powerful model for sharing ideas and leveraging experience and expertise in telelearning models and methods." Offers free newsletter.