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Your Goal

Resources that Might Assist You

I'm New to Education Online and Want to Learn More about It

• An Overview of Online Learning
• An Educator's Guide to the Internet

I'd Like to Learn  Tips and Techniques for Moving Content Online

(some will be directly applicable to you, some will be for your ongoing development)

• Creating a Campus Culture to Support a Teaching and Learning Revolution (from Cause/Effect Quarterly
• Convergences (a magazine (both print and online) that focuses on the use of distance learning technologies in higher education)
• Blackboard (www.blackboard.com) (the publisher of our software, who has many resources of value to you)
• List of electronic mailing lists and discussion groups that might be of interest to you
• The Technology Source (a webzine for integrating technology into the academic classroom)

• CIT Tidbits (an e-mail newsletter that summarizes recent articles about e-learning in the academy)

I'd Like to Learn More about the Direction of e- Learning in Higher Education

• Innovations in Distance Education (recent research in distance education)
• Educause Quarterly (a practitioner's journal for college faculty and staff)
• Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration (an online peer-reviewed journal about the administration of distance education activities, including online courses)
• E-learn magazine (a technical and news publication for all e-learning markets, published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest professional organization for software professionals and scholars)

I'm Looking for Worksheets and Other Resources to Help Me

• A tutorial on How to Build a Course Website
• Copyright Tutorial, a tutorial that explains what you're allowed to use -- and what you're not
• "Named colors" you can use on the web (that is, colors you can refer to by name in your HTML code rather than stating a hexadecimal value)

I'd Like to Sample Some Courses and Course Websites

• World Lecture Hall (links to course websites in most every subject area from colleges and universities around the world)
• Barnes and Noble University (click on the last tab on the right -- Online Courses)
• Digital Think (sample a free course)
• Fathom.com (a partnership of Columbia University, the London School of Economics, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and others, the preview site lets you sample free courses)
• Monster Board Technology Education (choose first option)
• Tutorial about Copyrights
• Peter Halley's Exploding Cell (more of a learning activity than an entire course)