The University of Central Florida's (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) offers the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) as a public resource for faculty and instructional designers interested in online and blended teaching strategies. Each entry describes a strategy drawn from the pedagogical practice of online/blended teaching faculty, depicts this strategy with artifacts from actual courses, and is aligned with findings from research or professional practice literature.

Ideas for embedding library instruction into courses. Includes a section for online learning.

Minds Online is a concise, nontechnical guide for academic leaders and instructors who seek to advance learning in this changing environment, through a sound scientific understanding of how the human brain assimilates knowledge.

Practice-focused newsletter with summations of SoTL findings, plus columns on “what works” for assignments and in-class teaching.

This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of visual representations; improve their shortcomings; use visual representations to create and communicate knowledge; and devise new ways of representing insights.

The RADAR Challenge is an online game developed by the librarians at Loyola Marymount University. The game is designed to be played in teams during a class or library session. Student teams are given an excerpt from a scientific journal article and asked a number of evaluative questions about the excerpt. These questions correspond to the RADAR information evaluation framework (Rationle, Accuracy, Date, Authority, Relevance).