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Links included on this page will assist you in accessing supplemental materials for your courses that are electronic based and free to use. It is also a good place to gain insight on how to incorporate technology in to your courses. Links at the bottom of the page are to articles that discuss the importance of keeping teaching the most important aspect in integrating technology.

Course Materials / Best Practices / lessons learned

Teaching the Y Generation
Digital Ethnography
A Vision of your Students Today
Dr. Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/ (click the Play icon on the You Tube Video)

Merlot
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
Searchable collection of peer reviewed, higher education, online learning materials created by registered members, and a set of faculty development support services. Search or browse by discipline.

OLI: Open Learning Initiative
MIT's OpenCourseWare project
Several U.S. colleges have started "open courseware" projects, in which they publish extensive sets of course materials -- such as syllabi, lecture notes, and quizzes -- online and encourage anyone to use them freely.

Carnegie Mellon University: The university has seven courses online in what it calls the Open Learning Initiative (http://www.cmu.edu/oli). The project has received $3.4-million in grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Foothill-DeAnza Community College District: In February the district posted material for eight courses in a project it calls Sofia, Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets (http://sofia.fhda.edu). The district is working with other California community colleges to convert selected courses to an open format and hopes to add about 25 more courses per year for the next several years. The project is supported by grants from the Hewlett Foundation.

Johns Hopkins University: The Bloomberg School of Public Health last week unveiled a draft version of an open-courseware project (http://ocw.jhsph.edu). Two courses -- "Understanding Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care," and "Statistical Reasoning I" -- are up so far, with eight more expected to be ready by April. The project is supported by a $200,000 grant from the Hewlett Foundation.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Since 2001 the university has been rapidly working to put materials for all of its 1,800 courses online. The OpenCourseWare project (http://ocw.mit.edu), which has support from the Hewlett Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is expected to take about seven years to complete.

Utah State University: The university recently unveiled the first eight courses in an open-courseware pilot project (http://ocw.usu.edu). The courses were chosen to highlight the university's most unique or well-known offerings. Programmers have also developed free software, called EduCommons, to help produce the Web sites. The project is supported by a $915,000 grant from the Hewlett Foundation.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
US Department of Education
http://www.free.ed.gov/
More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies.

World Lecture Hall
University of Texas at Austin
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/index.cfm
Online course materials from around the world.

WWW Virtual Library
http://vlib.org/
Oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Excellent repository of a wide array of resources.

Directory of Open Access Journals
Lund University
http://www.doaj.org/
Full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Active Learning Bibliography
University of South Florida
http://www.cte.usf.edu/bibs/active_learn/intro.html
Listing of published articles illustrating the use of active learning strategies in college and university classrooms.

Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
Cognition and Learning
San Diego State University
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/

Learning Through Technology
University of Wisconsin
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/archive/cl1/ilt/solution/solution.htm

Teaching Goals Inventory
University of Iowa
http://www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/tgi/
The Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) is a self-assessment of instructional goals. Its purpose is threefold: (1) to help college teachers become more aware of what they want to accomplish in individual courses; (2) to help faculty locate Classroom Assessment Techniques they can adapt and use to assess how well they are achieving their teaching and learning goals; and (3) to provide a starting point for discussion of teaching and learning goals among colleagues.