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This Faculty Resource Center has been developed to provide information relevant to online teaching and learning at Lone Star College.
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Research on Effective Practices for Teaching Online
Standards
Evaluating Online Courses
Alignment of Course Components to Learning Outcomes & Objectives
Online Communication
Learning Objects
Content Delivery
Learning Assessment Guidelines
Effective Use of Multimedia
- MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching:
Free membership specifically designed for faculty and students of higher education. Search specific disciplines and learning materials.
EXAMPLES of findings:
Mathematical Visualization Toolkit
A collection of plotting and solving applets
The eSkeleton Project
"The eSkeletons Project is devoted to the study of human and primate comparative anatomy. It offers unique digitized skeletons in 2-D and 3-D, full color, animations, and supplemental information. The user can navigate through the various regions of the skeleton and view all orientations of each element along with muscle and joint information.”
DNA from the Beginning
“an animated tutorial on DNA, genes and heredity. The science behind each concept is explained using animations, an image gallery, video interviews, problems, biographies, and links.”
Alcie the Accounting Student’s Friend – “This is a simple animated tool that helps beginning accounting students learn the rules of debits and credits.”
Crisis at Fort Sumter
“text, images, and sound, it reconstructs the dilemmas of policy formation and decision making in the period between Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861.”
Discovering Psychology
“This website offers a wide variety of videos relating to all aspects of psychology. It is free to register and the videos can be streamed into your classroom.”
Podcasts
- Podcasting Tools
A comprehensive resource detailing everything you need to know about podcasting
Repositories
Using Graphics in Online Courses
- Photoshare - Info:
Photoshare is a service of The INFO Project helping international non-profits communicate health and development issues through photography. We welcome you to browse the Photoshare collection, request images for non-profit educational use, and learn more about development photography.
- Resize Images – Shrink Pictures:
Resize images for your online materials without purchasing software.
Graphic Organizers
Concept, Mind Mapping, or Graphic Organizers are popular tools and/or strategies to help certain learners better grasp the big picture and understand and remember a concept by providing pictorial ways to display information for understanding and memory.
Some students better understand with visual cues. Below are free or trial demos for organizing software as well as articles about the educational value of offering graphic organizers to aid in student learning as well how students can use this software to create their own concept mapping.
Events
Conferences
- EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative - Annual Meeting:
Learning is at the center of higher education. It is an essential part of the mission of all colleges and universities. The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is a community of higher education institutions and organizations committed to advancing learning through IT innovation.
Organizations
- American Association of Community Colleges:
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has become the leading proponent and the national "voice for community colleges."
- League For Innovation:
The League is an international consortium serving community colleges.
- 4Faculty.org:
4faculty.org is an online professional development network of resources and learning modules designed specifically for the needs of community college faculty.
- Gallery of Teaching & Learning:
The Gallery of Teaching and Learning provides premier, digital representations of knowledge related to teaching and learning. The carefully crafted and vetted work of numerous participants of Carnegie Foundation programs and partners provides examples for individuals, projects, departments, institutions, communities of practice, and for the simply curious.
- EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative - Annual Meeting:
Learning is at the center of higher education. It is an essential part of the mission of all colleges and universities. The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is a community of higher education institutions and organizations committed to advancing learning through IT innovation.
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