Resource List - Useful URLs

Resource List

This page is designed to provide an assortment of links to high quality teaching Websites. Some of these may be academic papers while others provide broad information about aspects of teaching and learning. Each link is annotated to give you an idea of the information available.

If you find any other sites you think would be useful please email them to Academic Staff Development.

7 Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Teaching
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/7princip.htm
Chickering & Gamson (1987) framework for quality in teaching.
Backwards into the Future: Seven Principles for Educating the Ne(x)t Generation
http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=389
This Sword & Leggott (2007) paper from Innovate: Journal of online education takes the Chickering & Gamson (1987) 7 Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Teaching and relates them to educating "Generation X".
Rubric for Online Instruction (ROI)
http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/
California State University Chico, came up with a Rubric for Online Instruction (ROI) that is now used with over 92 institutions world wide. The ROI does not give explicit examples, but it does give faculty a framework for good online instruction. The rubric can be found in the PDF document listed in the menu on the left of the webpage above. A DVD has also been created to talk about how the rubric was created for Chico and each institution is encouraged to make the rubric "their own."
The Higher Education Academy (UK)
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/research/litreviews
The UK Higher Education Academy has commissioned a number of reviews on different aspects of learning and teaching that highlight evidence-informed approaches to policy and practice. The following topics are reviewed:
- Learning Spaces for the 21st Century
- Innovative Assessment Across the Disciplines
- Influencing Thinking and Practices about Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- The Student Learning Experience
Online Resources and Teaching Tips
http://www.developfaculty.com/
This website is maintained by Faculty Development Associates and contains a comprehensive alphabetically ordered list of online resources on a wide range of teaching and learning issues and techniques.
Deterring Plagiarism
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/books/plagiarism/index.html
This website is maintained by Oxford Brookes University - Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, in the United Kingdom and contains a comprehensive list of resources written to assist in deterring plagiarism practices.
The Higher Education Academy
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/
The Academy's mission is to help institutions, discipline groups and all staff to provide the best possible learning experience for their students. This website contains many resources on a wide range of learning and teaching issues and techniques.
e-learning Blog
http://e-learning-engagement.blogspot.com/
This Weblog has been set up to explore some of the more contemporary approaches to e-learning in higher education.
ICT-based learning designs
http://www.learningdesigns.uow.edu.au/index.html
This Website contains some high quality suggestions with regard to successful learning design in online learning environments.
Learning Objects
http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/02november/inside-out-1.htm
This article explains learning objects and describes some of the challenges they pose to educators.
Adopting an innovative multiple media approach to learning for equity groups: electronically-mediated learning for off-campus students.
http://ascilite.org.au/conferences/adelaide03/docs/pdf/27.pdf
This conference paper explores a successful blended learning approach to learning for distance equity student groups.
Online Learning Design For Dummies: Professional Development
Strategies For Beginning Online Designers
http://elrond.scam.ecu.edu.au/oliver/2002/edmedia1.pdf
This links to an excellent paper written by Ron Oliver and Jan Herrington.
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
http://www.deewr.gov.au/
This site is a great resource for educators and administrators -- lots of info!
The Le@rning Federation
http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/tlf2/
This website provides resources and information about emerging technologies to produce world-class online curriculum content to encourage student learning.
Guidelines for Web-based Teaching & Learning
http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/wbi/
Some guidelines and resources for online teaching & learning from Educational Technologies at Virginia Tech.
The Legacy of Robert M. Gagné
http://www.ibstpi.org/Products/Legacy-Gagne.htm
This is an online version of The Legacy of Robert M. Gagné (Richey, 2000), provided on their website by the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction.
Teaching & Learning on the Web
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/
This Website contains over 895 examples of how the web is being used as a medium for learning.
Learning Theories--Funderstanding
http://www.funderstanding.com/about_learning.cfm
This is part of the funderstanding Website and discusses a number of different learning theories.
Teaching and Educational Development Institute, The University of Queensland
http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/
This is the University of Queensland's Teaching & Learning Website. It contains some excellent information on learning and preparing flexible learning materials.
Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database
http://tip.psychology.org/
This Website provides a succinct over of the various learning theories and domains.
If you want to find out about learning, but don't have a lot if time, this is worth a look.
ADDIE Instructional Design Links
http://ed.isu.edu/addie/research/Research.html
This site contains information and links to additional information on the ADDIE model of instructional design.
Open World Presenter
http://presenter.openworld.com/
The basic tool is available free to educators and allows you to publish to different delivery systems.
Gilly Salmon's Home Page
http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/document.cfm?docid=1244
Dr Gilly Salmon is a world leader in e-learning and has published a number of books on the subject.
This Website provides links to an audio presentation from Gilly and other Websites she manages.
This is a must visit for e-learning professionals.
useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website
http://www.useit.com/
Jacob Nielsen's usability information Website.
Learning Circuits
http://www.learningcircuits.org/
An excellent online magazine devoted to e-learning.
e-book for Teaching, Learning and Technology
http://www.coe.uga.edu/epltt/
This site contains information on instructional and learning theories, as well as learning styles and multiple intelligence's. It also contains some sample lesson plans.
Australian Bureau of Statistics
http://www.abs.gov.au/
Try such links as Australia Now and Social Trends.
Assessing Learning in Australian Universities
http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/assessinglearning/
This is an AUTC initiative that offers advice on, and examples of, assessment for Higher Education.
Creativity Web
http://members.optusnet.com.au/charles57/Creative/index2.html
Resources for Creativity and Innovation in teaching and learning.
Newspapers Database
http://www.findnewspapers.com/
Search the newspapers of the world.
Education Research Resources
http://www.lib.unb.ca/wcl/subject_guides/educat.html
http://www.airweb.org/links/
These webpages contain a number of useful links for researchers in education.
SideBars e-zine
http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/index.htm
This e-zine is produced by the British Columbia Institute of Technology and is dedicated to distributed learning.