Teaching

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Teaching

Online Training for Online Faculty

August 8, 2007

A checklist of the best strategies for designing and delivering online courses to train online faculty. A checklist of the best strategies for de…

Using technology in teaching and learning: Resources to help you navigate a digital world

February 21, 2007

The author provides a long and comprehensive list of resources concerning teaching and learning with technology. The author provides a long and c…

Mobile Learning

June 15, 2007

This entire issue of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning , Vol 8, No 2 (2007), is focused on mobile learning. This special issue addresses some of the issues and…

Five Questions...For Tom Carey

August 16, 2007

Instructors in higher education get e-learning support from two distinct sources: their own institutions, through colleagues and faculty teaching centers, and their disciplines, through subject a…

A Teaching with Technology White Paper: Podcasting

July 9, 2007

This paper will explore educational podcasting in three realms: the creation and distribution of lecture archives for review, the delivery of supplemental educational materials and content, and a…

Faculty Center for Teaching and e-Learning

January 1, 2004

During the summer of 2001, the Faculty Center for Teaching at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Charlotte was charged with developing an instructional technology plan. A new CIO was hired wh…

How Many Students Are Just Right in a Web Course?

January 1, 2007

" The Web is still a relatively new environment for teaching and learning at a distance. Faculty are still learning from their experiences with various faculty—student ratios, and not unlike…

Qualitative Assignments to Enhance Online Learning

January 1, 2007

Rapid advances in online education bring new focus to online teaching and learning strategies. As faculty seek best practices to design online learning experiences, familiar tools can be applied in…

Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool

January 1, 2007

Wikis are a very versatile and easy-to-use tool that is finding increasing applications in teaching and learning. This paper will illustrate how teaching academics can join the wiki revolution. Fir…

The Invisible Professor and the Future of Virtual Faculty

January 1, 2007

"Traditional professors are disappearing from online classrooms as distance learning has altered their roles and responsibilities, as well as their professional status, job security, workload,…