Center for Online Learning
Online Faculty Development
In an effort to continually provide resources for quality online course design and technology innovation, we offer the below information.
- This new site adds discussions and peer review sessions to discuss pedagogical best practices, instructional techniques, and other resources.
Videos / Other
Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning - Published by the US Department of Education, this is the result of a meta-analysis involving research published from 1996 to July 2008, in which they sifted through more than 1,100 empirical studies of online learning.
New Faculty Orientation - Presentation (with links) given by the University's IT Services division.
Introduction to Web 2.0 - The Machine is Us/ing Us
"Open" Courses
Expanding educational materials to all is one of the overarching goals of higher education. Explore the below resources to see what some of the industry leaders are doing.
Open Yale Courses - A series of introductory courses taught by Yale professors.
MIT OpenCourseWare - An entire platform devoted to open courses.
Open CourseWare Consortium - The global network of institutions sharing in opencourseware.