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Blended/Online Design Webinar Resources
The CIIA participated in a four-part webinar, Making the Shift from Classroom to Online Course Design (Academic Impressions), presented by Patricia McGee (Univ. Texas) and Veronica Diaz (EDUCAUSE), and has rooted out the many web resources mentioned during the sessions either by the presenters or the participants. These resources are listed below under the subtitles of the four sessions. For more information on the original webinar, please contact the CIIA.
(Re)Mapping Course Design | Course Organization
Web 2.0 Technology | Interactive Learning Design
(Re)Mapping Course Design
- Bloom's Digital Taxonomy - presents Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy with some Web 2.0 technologies relevant to facilitate learning within the taxonomy, Educational Origami
- Five Principles of Successful Course Redesign, NCAT - advice to redesign the whole course, implement active learning, individualized assistance, assessment, feedback, time on task, and monitoring student progress
- See also: Course Redesign Planning Resources, NCAT
- Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two - a reference to the human ability to remember information; later research shows the number is lower
- Chunking - phenomenon whereby individuals group responses when performing a memory task
- Cognitive load - term used in cognitive psychology describing how much information an individual use and memorize
- Team-Based Learning Collaborative - group of educators dedicated to supporting faculty from a variety of disciplines who wish to implement team-based learning
- See also this video: Team-Based Learning: Group Work that Works, UT Austin
- Quality Matters - a faculty-centered, peer review process designed to certify the quality of online and blended courses
- Rubric for Online Instruction - California State University, Chico provides a rubric resource specifically for online instruction
- Quality Matters Rubric - set of standards used to evaluate the design on online and blended courses
Course Organization
- Quality Online Course Initiative Rubric & Checklist - Illinois Online Network’s online resource for rubrics
- Online Course Development Guide and Rubric - University of Southern Mississippi Learning Enhancement Center’s online resource for rubrics
- Online Course Rubric - Evaluates the effectiveness of instruction of online courses
- Distance Education Course Rubric - Craven Community College’s online resource for rubrics
- Blended Course Rubrics and Rubric Resources - a list of rubric templates, rubric tools, and examples
- Using Storyboards in Online Course Design - how to use storyboards for online educational uses and why storyboards are important
- Multimedia Storyboarding - a guide and resource for developing storyboards
- Why Use Storyboards - Illinois Online Network’s resources for creating and putting storyboards into practice
- Interactive Websites for your Courses - CourseSites is a free online course tool powered by Blackboard
- Multimedia learning - the common name used to describe the cognitive theory of multimedia learning
- Multimedia Learning - Richard Mayer’s book on Multimedia Learning and e-Learning
Web 2.0 Technology
- Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology - the annual ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology has sought to shed light on how information technology affects the college experience
- RSS - a term used to describe a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works
- Digital Storytelling - Ohio State University’s digital storytelling program used to communicate passion for teaching, research, and outreach through personal, engaging storytelling
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die - Chip Heath’s book about how to effectively communicate and get student’s attention by using stories, or using the “art of making ideas unforgettable”
- ‘7 Things You Should Know About...’ Series - Presented by EDUCASE, this series offers articles about emerging learning technologies and practices
- Dabbleboard - an online collaboration application that acts as a virtual whiteboard
- The Brain - a digital Brain that is designed to help organize information and store information in a flexible, fluid interface to help visualize your thinking
- Mindomo - a digital tool to create mind maps, which can be shared and collaborated
- Study Blue - a study tool that allows students and teachers to make flashcards and practice quizzes online
- Four Levels of Evaluation Model - Donald Kirkpatrick’s model of learning evaluation
- The Official Kirkpatrick Blog - Donald Kirkpatrick’s blog about evaluation
- Video Example of Sakai - Edith Sheffer, a Stanford professor, talks about how she used the online tool Sakai in her history course
- Classroom Assessment Techniques - A variety of classroom assessment techniques provided by the National Teaching & Learning Forum
- Classroom Assessment Techniques, CATs - formative evaluation methods that help assess students’ understanding and teaching effectiveness provided by Iowa State University
- TitanPad - an online tool that allows multiple people to work on one document simultaneously
- The Etherpad Foundation - an open source online tool that allows real-time document collaboration
- Prezi - an online tool that provides free, visually captivating presentation software
Interactive Learning Design
- Effective Dimensions of Interactive Learning on the World Wide Web – a chapter in the book Web-based Instruction by Thomas C. Reeves and Patricia M. Reeves
- Web 2.0 Roadmap – provides an introduction to Web 2.0, and is also an example of a free wiki page
- Animoto - a free online tool to create stunning video slideshows
- Content Generator - an online tool that allows anyone to generate e-Learning quizzes, games, and applications
- Dippity - a free digital timeline website that allows users to create, share, embed, and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location, and timestamps
- Google Apps in Education - free email and collaboration tools for schools, powered by Google
- Google SketchUp - tool to help create virtual 3D models, which can be shared
- Knowledge Shift - a tool that uses technology to create, distribute, and measure knowledge about techniques for training and education projects
- Library of Congress - the online website for the Library of Congress to be used for reference
- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) - a free and open online community of resources designed for faculty, staff, and students of higher education to share their learning materials and pedagogy
- Second Life (Virtual schizophrenia) - an example of how Second Life can be used as a demonstration in the classroom
- Smithsonian - website for the world’s largest museum and research complex which can be used for exploration and reference in the classroom
- SpicyNodes - a tool to develop visual guides for your website, or create mind maps or organizational charts
- VideoAnt - an online environment synchronizing web-based video tool with timeline-based text annotations
- VoiceThread - a collaborative, multimedia slide show that hold images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments by using voice, text, audio file, or video
- Wallwisher - an online notice board for making announcements or keeping notes
- WebQuests - a list of examples of Webquests, which are inquiry oriented lessons, from Patricia McGee
- Winksite - a mobile content management and social networking website
- Wisc-Online - a digital library of Web-based learning resources called “learning objects.” The digital library of objects has been developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System
- Wolfram Alpha - a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base
- Wordle - a tool to generate “world clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words used more frequently in your text
See also:
- CIIA's Blended/Hybrid Learning teaching tips page
- CIIA's Instructional Technologies in Education section
- WWU's Academic Technology and User Services Blackboard Support page
