Online+Resources

Online Resources
Share your "gold mine" resources with your peers on educational topics from A to Z!

[|Enhancing Student Learning Through Effective Formative Feedback] [|Classroom Assessment Techniques]
 * Assessment and Feedback**

[|The Hybrid Online Model: Good Practice](Martyn, 2003) [|Blended Learning Guide] (Van Noord et al., 2007) [|Hybrid Courses]University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee (design topcs/considerations/pros and cons) [[|Ten Hybrid Question to Consider (2005)]]
 * Blended/Hybrid Learning**

[|List of Short Documents on Concept Mapping] [|The Theory Underlying concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them] (Novak & Canas, 2008) (what is, how to, and pedagogical applications) [|Theory Behind Mind Maps] [|Mind Maps: A Powerful Approach for Note-taking] [|The Mind Mapping Site]
 * Concept Mapping | Mind Mapping**

[|Integrated Course Design (Idea Paper #42)] [|Selecting Course Content] [|A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning](Dee Fink) [|Design and Teach a Course] [|Instructional Design and Learning Theories](Mergel, 1998) [|Bloom's Revised Taxonomy - A Model for Learning Objectives](Iowa State University)
 * Course/Instructional Design Resources**

[|EDUCAUSE] (non-profit organization; mission - to advance higher education by promoting intelligent use of IT; offers comprehensive range of resources, programs, activities to higher education member institutions - publisher of //7 Things You Should Know About// series) [|10 Internet Technologies that Educators Should be Informed About (][|Emerging Ed Tech Blog:][|)] [|5 Reasons Why Educators Need to Embrace Internet Technologies] [|7 Things You Should Know About Series] (quick reference brief - What is it? and Pedagogical Applications of Technologies | E.g., Skype, lecture capture, wikis) [|MIT Open Courseware](open source course design resources) [|Free Online Video Lecture Sites] (Emerging Ed Tech Blog post) [|MERLOT]- Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (provides peer-reviewed online teaching and learning materials) [|World Lecture Hall] (publishes links to pages created by educators worldwide) [|Learning Technology Resources] (from wikis to survey tools to video chats - learn more and try different tools out)
 * Educational/Learning Technology Resources**

[|Tools for Teaching] (second edition of text available online through PRIMO for Laurier users) [|Teaching Tips] (tip sheets from the University of Waterloo) [|National Teaching and Learning Forum - Supplemental Materials Archives] (full newsletter available through PRIMO for Laurier users)
 * General Teaching and Learning Resources**

This is a handout with many different icebreakers that can be adapted to your environments.
 * Icebreakers**

[|Learning Principles] [|Teaching Principles] [|Philosophies of Adult Education]
 * Learning and Teaching Principles/Philosophies**

[|Planning a Class](University of Waterloo)
 * Lesson Planning**

[|A Vision of Students (Millenials) Today - YOUTube Video] (about 5 minutes; almost 4 million hits to date) [|Beloit College Mindset List](enter entering year of students to generate a list of contempoary issues/events students of this era can associate with - good for building examples that are relevant to students. Caution: U.S. focus) [|Podcast - Brain Research and Multitasking - What the research says] (about 5 minutes) [|ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology 2010] [|Educating the Net Generation]
 * Millenials**

[|The Theory and Practice of Online Learning](published by Athabasca University Press - free download; chapters on online learning theory, course design, etc.) [|Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Learning](book series - available for purchase) - provides concise, practical resources/information on designing and teaching online
 * Online Learning (Teaching/Design Resources)**

[|Wordle] - create word clouds to add a visual element to presentations, websites, documents - see the home page for the workshop word cloud) [|Spell with Flickr] - a neat dodad that you can use to spell words with pictures of letters. Mapping Software: [|VUE] | [|Cmap] | [|Mindmeister] (free and proprietary)
 * Open Source Software** (neat and practical)

This is an article that a colleague and I (Denise) wrote regarding situated cognition.
 * Situated Learning/Situated Cognition**

This is from a workshop that I (Denise) did on learning communities. Learning communities are a main tenet of situated cognition.

[|Online Collection of Course Syllabi] [|Two Sides of the Same Coin: Student-Faculty Perspectives of the Course Syllabus] (article 19) (McDonald et al., 2010) [|Syllabi Resources] (template, checklist, other)
 * Syllabus Design/Resources**

[|The National Teaching and Learning FORUM newsletter] (subscription based but supplemental materials available for frree) [|The Teaching Professor](subscription based from Magna Publications) [|The Online Classroom](subscription based from Magna Publications) [|Faculty Focus](free newsletter and reports) [|Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching - CELT](free online papers, published by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - STLHE) [|IDEA Papers and More] (free online teaching and learning papers and reports) [|Good Teaching Practices] (select chapteres from 1993 edition of //Tools for Teaching// by Barbara Gross Davis; new edition now available from publisher - paper and electronic)
 * Teaching and Learning Newsletters/Papers/Chapters**