Below you will find links to (free) information on
- Online Teaching Tools
- Open Educational Resources
- Teaching Effectiveness Practices and Theories
- Instructional Design Topics
Online Teaching Tools
Presentation and Teaching Tools
- Google Slides
- Canva
- Powtoons (short video)
- Tiki-Toki (Online Timeline Maker)
- Visme (Infographic Maker)
- Creately (collaborative diagram maker)
- TED Ed Lessons (create or discover)
Social Presence
- Padlet.com: Post and comment on Presentations and Video
Activity Ideas
Tool Evaluation
UDL
- WCAG 2 Checklist
- W3C Guidelines for WCAG
- UDL Guidelines
- Bionic Reading – Helps to read faster.
Privacy and Risk
- HECVAT – to measure vendor risk (Educause)
AI/Chatgpt/Bard/Cheating/Plagiarism/Resources
- ChatGPT Helped me to pass an exam/never went to class
- Text Summarizer – A.I Based Summarizing tool
- Plagiarism.org – Posts all about Plagiarism.
- Resources | Turnitin
- Turnitin’s AI Misuse Checklist
- Turnitin’s AI Misuse Activity Rubric Guide
- GPTZero – Free AI detector. Use with care.
Open Educational Resources
Learning and Digital Content
- SUNY OER (Course materials to embed in your LMS)
- MIT OPEN Courseware
- Kahoot for Learning Games (and self tests)
- Open Culture Courses
- Open Textbook Library
- eLearning Infographics
- OER Commons (Higher Ed. Tutorials)
- Library of Congress: Digital Collections
- Merlot
- OpenStax (Free and Open Textbooks and Resources)
- Healthcare Learning
Group Projects
- 5 Tips for Working on Group Projects (short article)
- Group Projects in Online Courses (article)
- Effective Use of Group Projects in Online Learning (paper)
Skills
- Simplilearn – software development
- Grow with Google
- Google Analytics Academy, Skillshop
- Learn Google Data Studio
- Microsoft Training
Teaching Effectiveness Practices and Theories
- Inclusive ADDIE for DEI Pedagogy (Educause article)
- Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction (article)
- Inclusive Teaching and Self Awareness (3:26)
- Bloom’s Taxonomy Action Verbs
- Learning Theories (8:19)
- Online Collaborative Learning Theory (6:32)
- Community of Inquiry Framework (4:00)
- The Community of Inquiry website
- TED Talk: How Thinking Works (15:58)
- What is Critical Thinking? (2:29)
- Educause Instructional Technology Listserv – lots of emerging and rising topics like ChatGPT
Instructional Design Topics
- ID2ID: Peer Mentoring Program
- Instructional Design in Higher Ed (report)
- Instructional Design topics, reports and showcases (Educause)
- SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR)
- Faculty Development Toolkit (Guide)
- Kirkpatrick’s 4 Levels of Evaluation (22:40)
- Get Involved with Educause for Professional Development
- Shift’s eLearning Blog
- eLearning Industry blog
- Educause Community of Practice Design Guide (guide)
Faculty Course Development
- Checklist for Getting Started with the LMS and Creating an Equitable Learning Environment*
- Online Teaching with Continuous Improvement Initiative*
- Evidence-Based Principles for Online Faculty Development (Educause – Article)
- Online Tool Evaluation Checklist*
- Resource Evaluation Checklist*
- SUNY Brightspace training
- SBU Open Access Databases
Education Data, Statistics and Reports
- Horizon Reports
- Gallup: Creativity in Learning (2019)
- National Center for Education Statistics (Higher Ed. data)