This resource provides information on sites related to a range of university teaching and learning issues. All material is available on the World Wide Web.
This site provides a list of links to university centres for academic development for Australia, Canada, USA, and others. It is not comprehensive, but it includes a wide range of links.
This centre, at Harvard University, offers a variety of activities and services to improve undergraduate education. While the site is currently designed to assist staff at Harvard, there are several excellent online documents available and links to other resources.
Diversity University is a non-profit instructional organisation that is 'dedicated to meeting the online distance education learning needs of individuals and institutions. Diversity University MOO is a real-time internet accessible virtual reality educational environment.' The Diversity University Services Units offer a variety of support and educational services - all online.
Education Index is an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They are sorted by subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily. There's also a place to find out more about about all that the Education Index has to offer.
This excellent site comes from the Academic Technology Center at Cornell University, USA. Divided by academic disciplines, it lists links to online resources such as bibliographies, biographies, text documents, reviews, and art exhibitions. It is selective, but intriquingly diverse.
Problem-based learning (PBL) is one of the main characteristics of Universiteit Maastricht. As a consequence of this educational innovation the university has many contacts with other institutions of higher education both in the Netherlands and abroad. The main objective of this PBL site is to support and to develop these national and international contacts. To realize this objective this PBL home page collates all kinds of resources about PBL and makes them accessible. These resources can be within Universiteit Maastricht or can reside outside the university. Furthermore, these resources can be quite different in their nature.
The PBL site will also support communication between different institutions by means of discussion-lists, links with other PBL sites en links with other networks of institutions with innovative educational systems. The PBL site is aimed at faculty members of institutions of higher education, who are interested in PBL or have already implemented PBL and want to further develop this educational innovation.
The Department of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas maintains the Online University Teaching Center's Web page, a directory of sites focusing on teaching and faculty developments at the college/university level around the world. Some sites focus exclusively on teaching while others are multifunctional. Suggestions for the directory can be sent to Howard E. Sypher.
Athena University
Athabasca University, Canada
Endicott College, U.S.
North Central University
Southern California University for Professional Studies, U.S.
University of Colorado Online
The Virtual College at Lansing Community College, U.S.
The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver university-level academic courses in any language. The World Lecture Hall does not administer any of the courses it links to. Some are distance-learning courses delivered entirely over the Internet. Others are designed for students in residence.
WWWDEV Member's Courses: List of online courses WWW based classes.
CyberShakespeare - Interactive Multimedia Education on the Web
CyberShakespeare is a fresh approach to learning on the Web. Inspired by traditional classroom teaching, CyberShakespeare’s structured learning modules will explore different areas of Shakespeare study, enabling students and instructors to work together across distance and time. The modules will be designed by scholar-teachers, each a specialist in a different area, each a teacher of proven excellence.
The Deakin Interchange Project
The Deakin Interchange Project is part of a network-based educational delivery program at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. Deakin Interchange is used by approximately 5000 staff and students. It incorporates site-licensed software for email, computer conferencing, and offers a range of Internet services. Users can access library and ITS services at Deakin. Future extensions are planned to support and administrative service as well as to teaching and learning applications.
Elizabeth Stacey describes Deakin University Education Faculty's experiences in developing a 'virtual campus' for postgraduate students in her ultiBASE article entitled A virtual campus: The experiences of postgraduate students studying through electronic communication and resource access.
EQuad, the Electronic Quad
EQuad, the Electronic Quad, is an experiment in distributed education. Six universities are cooperating to develop shared instruction in their communication curricula. The project proposal is available on-line. A secure web site is available to project participants.
The move toward distributed education reflects several interrelated developments. These include: (1) the application of a "componentware" approach to the development of educational technologies, which offers the advantages of reusability, reduced cost, and reduced development time; (2) the application of pedagogies reflecting an active, cooperative, team-oriented approach to learning; (3) the use of internet based instructional delivery to support not just distance learning, but learning in context (e.g., just-in-time instruction); and (4) the use of new collaboration technologies to support cooperative instruction by communities of teachers and students. Relevant links are provided on our "Virtual Classrooms and Distributed Education" page
A virtual multi disciplinary teaching project for school students. Dr. Robert Ballard discovered the wreck of the Titanic, then set up the Jason Project so that teachers and students all anywhere in the world could take part in global explorations using advanced interactive telecommunications. Students can take part in live, interactive programs which are broadcast using state-of-the-art technology to a network of educational, research, and cultural institutions in the United States, Central America, and Britain. The Project takes a student focussed, experiential approach to teaching and learning, using distance learning technologies, innovative curricula, online systems and community partnerships.
SATURN (South Australian Three Universities Resource Network)
SATURN is a joint effort of Flinders University, University of South Australia, and the University of Adelaide. A guiding principle in developing the site was 'to enable staff to see the benefits of flexible delivery and then assist them in being able to develop their own flexibly-delivered subjecs and courses.' The development of the project is described in an (http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/Articles/kiley2.html) article published on ultiBASE. The site has five major areas of emphasis: teaching and learning, postgraduate education, middle level management, forum, and working with the web. There are diverse links within each area that include articles, bibliographies, and resource materials. The site is continuing to develop.
Maraget Kiley describes the development of SATURN in her ultiBASE article entitled Learning first hand: Some early lessons from an experiment using the World Wide Web for academic staff development .
Teaching Sociology
This site contains the syllabus for a course called Teaching Sociology. It is written by Howard Aldrich, professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, U.S.A. Aldrich provides course objectives and content, his orientation to the course, and details about student expectations. The reading list is extensive and includes books, journals, and newsletters.
USC-Aiken University Writing Room
The Writing Room is to help students throughout the university to develop their writing skills so that they may write articulately about any subject. Writing consultants assist students in all phases of the writing process. The Writing Room is staffed by USCA students and directed by a member of the English faculty.
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