Resources

Resources are links, instructions, and articles to help you complete the Course Components assignments. It is not our intention that you read or follow all the links below, but that you pick and choose to meet your needs, interest, and time.

Online courses for your review:

• AVLN Courses. Login to AVLN's D2L Site as AOC.Guest, password AOC.Guest. Note that this password is case sensitive. This will give guest access to a 6 week course and a 1 week course.
• A Bibliography of Exemplary Web-Enabled Courses at the University of Alberta
• WebCT Exemplary Courses. WebCT has been reviewing courses and giving awards for exemplary courses since 2000. Winning courses from 2001 through the present are posted online for your viewing. If you use a different learning management system, don't be afraid to check this out! You'll still find useful models!
• Webagogy in Online Courses. A description of three courses from a study on exemplary online courses in 1998.
• Your Institution. Check with the online course support staff at your institution to see who might be doing an exemplary job of teaching online. Then ask permission to access their course(s).
• Know of another source? Tell us!

Comparison of Teaching Face to Face and Online

• Methods and Strategies to Promote Student Online Interaction in Distance Learning See especially pages 8-22.

Course Platform Information

• Blackboard
• WebCT
• Some others: e42, Edline, JonesKnowledge, Manhattan and Manhattan Documentation, and Moodle.
• Reviews and Comparisons
  • Evaluation of Learning Management Systems
  • Web Courseware Comparisons and Studies (many links)

Technical Instructions

• How to post files in the discussion
• How to print to PDF with Adobe Acrobat
• How to save Word as HTML
• Converting WordPerfect 11 to PDF

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