This is the first draft of the Best Practices in Online Instruction and Design that has been shared with the BPOID Group. This draft is being submitted to track the progress of this ongoing project.
Box.com offers free online file storage ? a USB memory flash drive online. The benefit of online storage is that files don?t have to be sent back and forth or saved onto an easily misplaced thumb drive. User folders can be marked private, shared with individual users via password, or open to the public.
Ning is a commercial Web site that offers user-generated social networks.
Explanation of what "accessible" means, and how it differs from terms such as assistive technology and accommodations.
The primary goal of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources is to identify, create and/or repurpose existing OER as Open Textbooks and make them available for use by community college students and faculty. We are seeking the support of faculty to identify, review, evaluate, and make available high quality, accessible and culturally relevant model Open Textbooks.
Information and video tutorials to help teachers create closed captioned videos.
Overview of OER with a demonstraton of how to create accessible OER with Open Author and the introduction of a protocol for the curation of accessible OER.
An explanation of what it means to say educational materials are "accessible" and why accessibility is important.
The Design Case Studies offer instructors with a starting point for introducing students to the design of technology and policy. Students work with value sensitive design methods to develop tech policy solutions.View or download the PDF version here.
Practical tips for implementing the four principles of accessibility that are the foundation for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Education for a Digital World contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process. It offers practical, contemporary guidance to support e-learning decision-making, instructional choices, as well as program and course planning, and development. This text has been reviewed and endorsed by the Community College Open Textbook Collaborative.
Gliffy is a diagramming tool built into a social Web presence. The traditional graphic organizer interface takes on a social theme by allowing multiple users to work on a diagram simultaneously.
Google Calendar is one of the most full-featured Web-based calendars available and it's free. Google Calendar offers calendar synching with Microsoft Outlook and other computer-based calendar tools, as well as the ability to subscribe to other users's calendars, make public calendars, etc.
If you combine the usefulness of an office suite with the Web 2.0 features of a tool like a wiki, you end up with Google Docs. It acts as a word processor, delivered via any browser, with collaborative functionality and wiki?like editing.
Google Earth makes Google Maps in 3D ? a visual, 3D globe for your computer that includes traditional mapping, layered terrain, cultural landmarks, etc. Please note that Google Earth pro is now free for schools.
Google Maps provides standard map directions, as well as real-time traffic information in major cities, satellite views, and saved maps and directions.
Single lecture presentation containing tips for using technology to enhance teaching. Uses proven multimedia design principles to enhance learning.
Our mission is to provide practitioners in online education with knowledge about the very best research in online learning. Papers emphasizing results, backed by data are the norm.
Helpful website with questions and answers on Learning Objects.
Ning is a commercial Web site that offers user-generated social networks.
This collection of free, public domain clip art is an attempt at creating a central location for users to find clip art in the public domain to use in non-commercial efforts.
This course is intended to provide a foundation in the skills and knowledge you'll need to create, remix, adopt, or update open educational resources (OER). Specifically, by the end of the course you'll be able to:
Apply backward design in order to plan learning goals, assessment, and appropriate scaffolding/support,
Describe the meaning of open educational resources,
Locate open educational resources relevant to course learning outcomes,
Properly attribute works offered under a Creative Commons license,
Identify and create works that are accessible to all students,
Add a Creative Commons license to your own work and share back with your disciplinary community.
Information and video tutorials to help teachers and students take advantage of built-in features, apps and extensions on a variety of devices to support a personalized and accessible reading experience for everyone.
The Protocol for Curating Accessible OER is provides detailed yet easy to implement techniques for evaluating the accessibility of OER content in a number of formats.
Information on tools for making math notation more accesible to learners.
Resources to help educators enhance and enrich their teaching with accessible videos that include captions and/or audio description.
Provides both inspiration and guidance for those beginning work on affordable content and evidence of the growth that has occurred in this arena over the last decade.
A set of questions that can be used to evaluate the accessibility of materials considered for procurement.
Howard Rheingold's seminal work The Virtual Community addresses the implementation of electronic learning communities.
VoiceThread is a program that incorporates the best of traditional photo slideshows, PowerPoint presentations and podcasts and combines them into one powerful, digital storytelling tool. Typically, users upload photos and then groups collaborate to tell the story behind these photos.
Learners examine the do's and don'ts of blogging in a school setting. They compare the features of a student blog with those of a classroom community blog. This learning object is particularly designed for instructors.
Learners examine the benefits of using blogs in a school setting and then test their knowledge in two exercises.
The users of this learning object read a brief introduction to the six levels of Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy and quiz themselves on a basic understanding of the levels.
This lesson focuses on the affective domain, which refers to attitudes of awareness, interest, attention, concern and responsibility. Users quiz themselves on their basic understanding of the content.
Learners read about the six levels of the psychomotor domain taxonomy and quiz themselves on a basic understanding of the content.
In a drag-and-drop exercise, the learner considers various food items and determines if they improve brain functioning. This learning object is designed for instructional assistants.
Users of this learning object review a case study of an online student and her experience with her instructor. They determine the principles of good practice for teaching online.
Instructors complete a simple, informal inventory that helps them to see how they use the Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education developed by Chickering and Gamson (supported by AAHE, ACE, Johnson and Lilly foundations) in 1987.
In this interactive object, learners solve a school mystery by identifying the "suspects" in the hierarchy of questioning: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This activity was designed for teachers and instructional assistants.
Users of this learning object evaluate the early online experiences of four hypothetical students and record the lessons that can be learned about what to do and what not to do to create effective online learning environments.
This learning activity describes the definition, the uses, and the terms associated with a blog.
Learners read about the strengths and weaknesses of this Web communication tool.
Learners review the concept of portfolio, the characteristics of the two basic types of portfolios, and the benefits of using portfolios for instructors, students, and job-seekers.
Wordle generates ?word clouds? from text that you enter at the site. The clouds can take on a variety of layouts, fonts, and colors.
Yugma allows for free desktop sharing and Web conferencing, collaborative presentations, etc.
RSS page aggregators allow users to subscribe to blog ?feeds.? Setting up an RSS page means that blog updates, podcast distributions, etc., are automatically fed into this page, so that users no longer have to visit those pages to view updates.
Attached should be the governance policy of openNCCC, published August 5, 2021.