Learning Objects and Curricular Examples |
| Name of Resource | URL | Description |
| Black History Treasure Hunt | AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer Black History Interactive Treasure Hunt | Interactive treasure hunt |
| Connexions | Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities | Connexions is a rapidly growing collection of free scholarly materials and a powerful set of free software tools to help
-authors publish and collaborate
-instructors rapidly build and share custom courses
-learners explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines.
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| Educator's Reference Desk | http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/res.cgi/ | Curriculum examples |
| Houghton Mufflin Instructor Resources | Houghton Mifflin College - Welcome Instructors | "find your course materials, including textbook sites, lecture outlines, PowerPoint slides, and instructor's resource manuals." |
| KEEP Toolkit: Carnegie Foundation | Knowledge Media Laboratory KEEP Toolkit | The KEEP toolkit is a set of web-based tools that help teachers, students and institutions quickly create compact and engaging knowledge representations on the Web. |
| Learning Objects: Collections | Learning Objects | learning objects collections |
| Learning Objects: Finding Them | UETS Learning Objects Index | Georgia State University Ed Tech Services |
| Learning Objects: An introduction | Learning Objects | "This web site is designed to introduce the subject of learning objects." |
| Low Threshold Applications and Activities | Low Threshold Application Activity LTA Home Page TLT Group | |
Media Berkman
Berkman Center for Internet and Society Webcast
dcast | education | Social tagging, intellectual property, etc. |
| MERLOT | MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching | "Multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching" |
| MIT Open CourseWare | MIT OpenCourseWare OCW Home | "a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership." |
| Online Conferencing: Ohio State Handbook for Electronic Discussions | FoundationsRationale | "This handbook provides advice for instructors on one particular use of instructional technology-the use of electronic communication to extend class discussion beyond the time and place of class meetings. It is based on a study of several Ohio State classes that employed such electronic class discussions, recommendations of students and faculty, and advice from experts in the field. The main goal of the handbook is to help instructors use this form of technology thoughtfully and effectively, given their course goals." |
| Online Conferencing: Effective Use | Effectively Using Electronic Conferencing | "These suggestions are meant to stimulate your thinking about using electronic conferencing in your course;" |
Online Conferencing: Initiating and Moderating Discussions
| Moderating Discussions - WebBoard for Discussions (IST, U. of Waterloo) | "Just as face-to-face discussions need someone to structure, moderate, and keep the talk on topic, so do on-line ones. Many of the same types of skills and techniques apply, but certain wrinkles and twists appear when you can't use your tone of voice, hand motions, or the rap of a gavel to regain decorum when things get hairy." |
| Online Conferencing; Moderating Conference Discussions | Moderating Conference Discussions | UMUC distance education |
| Online Courses: National Repository | NROC | "The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online courses for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement©". |
| Sociology Resources: Virtual Explorations | Virtual Explorations | Thompson Wadsworth |
| Teaching Resources | UETS Teaching Resources (links) | Georgia State University |
| World Lecture Hall | World Lecture Hall | "Welcome to World Lecture Hall, your entry point to free online course materials from around the world. Please browse, search, learn and enjoy." |
