Here is a list of my best practices that I have found useful for me as an online educator. This list should provide great information for educators and administrators who are new to distance education and want to learn best practices from the experts:
- 10 Tips for Online Course Development – Priya Williams
http://www.stylusinc.com/online_course/tips.htm
- Ideas for Distance Learning – Dr. Robert Bramucci
http://fdc.fullerton.edu/learning/STG2001_IDEAS.htm - MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
http://www.merlot.org/home/Sites.po - Who Owns Online Courses and Course Materials? Intellectual Property Policies for a New Learning Environment. – Carol A. Twigg
http://www.center.rpi.edu/PewSym/mono2.html - Online Pedagogy: Theories and Best Practices – Part of the Tennessee Board of Regents website that coordinates most distance education in the state of
http://www.tn.regentsdegrees.org/faculty/pedagogy.htm - Effective Practices for Faculty Satisfaction from the famous Sloan Consortium:
http://www.sloan-c.org/effective/SortByFacultySat.asp - Effective Practices for Student Satisfaction again from the Sloan Consortium:
http://www.sloan-c.org/effective/SortByStudentSat.asp - Effective Practices by Institution, again from the great Sloan Consortium:
http://www.sloan-c-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Effective_Practices_by_College
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