The following links are some that we found interesting and informative. There are many sites on the Web related to teaching and learning online. Those listed below are a few that we found to be of value. They are arranged (mostly) by major sections of our web site.

Distance Education Teaching and Teaching Styles

Papers

A paper submitted for a graduate class. It touches on various topics such as computer mediated communications, asynchronous learning networks, quality in distance teaching, assessment, etc.
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~btruman/dist-lr.html

"The Role of the Online Instructor/Facilitator" by Zane Berge
http://www.emoderators.com/moderators/teach_online.html

Papers on Distance Education

This page, from the University of Houston, provides links to a number of papers dealing with the topic of Distance Education. Paper titles include: "Building a Support System for Distance Learning Students", "Integrating Computer Technologies in Distance Learning as Part of Teacher Preparation and Inservice: Guidelines for Success", "Taking Instruction Online: The Art of Delivery", and "A Review of Tools for Developing and Managing Online Courses".
http://www.coe.uh.edu/insite/elec_pub/HTML1998/to_de.htm

Teaching Style Clusters

This site takes the teaching styles identified and groups them into clusters since it is felt that teaching faculty do not usually exhibit only one teaching style.
http://web.indstate.edu/ctl/styles/tstyle.html

Inventory

Take a more comprehensive teaching styles inventory and see your scores right away!
http://www.fcrc.indstate.edu/tstyles3.html

This is another version of a teaching style inventory. This one you print and score yourself.
http://snow.utoronto.ca/Learn2/mod3/tchstyle.html

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Learning Styles

Learning Styles

This touches on one way of categorizing learning styles with their inherent characteristics. It suggests possible teaching styles which would work best with each learning style. http://www.crlt.umich.edu/occ10.html

Questionnaire

For a more in-depth interactive learning style questionnaire, try this site.
http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/ilsweb.html

Categories

Different categories for learning styles (e.g. linguistic, musical, spatial) are given here with characteristics for each.
http://www.womensmedia.com/seminar-learningstyle.html

Inventory

This is a short learning styles inventory which you score yourself. http://alaike.lcc.hawaii.edu/lrc/lstest.html

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Key Elements

"Evaluation for Distance Educators", one of several guides developed at the University of Idaho by Barry Willis.
http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/dist4.html

Another guide in the University of Idaho's series developed by Barry Willis, "Instructional Development for Distance Education"
http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/dist3.html

The League of Innovations in the Community College has several links to resources and articles. This link is to the League's "LeagueTLC Learning Links: Community College Service Connections for Implementing Innovative Solutions" page.
http://www.league.org/leaguetlc/learning_links/index.htm

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Tips and Strategies

Conferencing Strategies for Teaching at a Distance:
http://illinois.online.ullinois.edu/IONresources/confstrategies/index.html

Facilitating Interaction in Computer Mediated Online Courses
http://www.emoderators.com/moderators/flcc.html

Considerations for Teaching in a Distance Learning Environment
http://www.iddl.vt.edu/handbook/considerations.php

Tom March's "Working the Web for Education" has some good ideas and activities for online teachers. Exploring this web site (and related links) might keep you interested and engaged for several hours and give you lots of ideas on how you can create an active and interesting learning environment for your students.
http://www.ozline.com/learning/theory.html

One of several guides written by Barry Willis. This one is titled "Strategies for Teaching at a Distance".
http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/dist2.html

Another guide in the University of Idaho's Distance Education series by Barry Willis. This one is titled "Distance Education and the WWW".
http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/dist11.html

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Challenges

"The Role of Distance Education Instructor: Attitudes, Skills, and Strategies"
http://waltoncollege.uark.edu/disted/role_of_distance_education_instr.htm

"Distance Education: Faculty Issues"
http://www.utexas.edu/cc/cit/de/deprimer/faculty.html

"Keeping Online Asynchronous Discussions on Topic"
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/Vol3_issue2/beaudin.htm

" Learning To Communicate Online Is a Challenge for New Distance-Ed Students"
http://chronicle.com/free/2000/01/2000011301u.htm

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Glossaries

Distance Education Glossary from the University of Texas. One of their primer series for Distance Education.
http://www.utexas.edu/cc/cit/de/deprimer/glossary.html

Glossary of Internet Terms created and maintained by Walt Howe (last updated August 30, 2000)
http://www0.delphi.com/navnet/glossary/index.html

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Online Journals

Distance Education site of "The Chronicle of Higher Education" .
http://chronicle.com/distance/

Other Stuff

Test your Net Etiquette this web site by taking the Netiquette quiz.
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/netiquiz.html

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