Community of Online Research Assignments

TOPR: Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository

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.

Frameworks For Blended and Online Course Design

Learning technologists have been developing frameworks for course design, development, delivery, and evaluation. A framework, typically in the form of a rubric or checklist, describes the characteristics of a successful online course. These course design frameworks provide entry points for collaboration and input into the course design process, and open the door into greater librarian participation in blended and online learning. Written by Sarah McDaniel.

teachthought

TeachThought is a brand dedicated to innovation in K-20 education. This is pursued by growing teaching through thought leadership, resource curation, curriculum development, podcast publishing, and face-to-face professional development in schools.

Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think About Information

Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think About Information explores how librarians and faculty work together to teach students about the nature of expertise, authority, and credibility. It provides practical approaches for motivating students to explore their beliefs, biases, and ways of interpreting the world. Examines how academic libraries assess liaison activities and offers recommendations for documenting the impact of programs and services.

Science Information Literacy Resources

This collection of science information literacy resources is sponsored by the Science & Technology Section's Information Literacy committee. The Science & Technology Section (STS) is a section of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

This guide is intended to provide a place for librarians to find resources to guide their information literacy instruction for science students and faculty.

ACRL IS Information Literacy in the Disciplines

The Information Literacy in the Disciplines site is published by the Instruction Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. It is designed for instructors and librarians who are interested in incorporating information literacy skills into existing curriculum. Resources included on the site fall into two classes of materials:

1)  standards or guidelines from accrediting agencies and professional associations
2)  supplementary materials such as curricula, articles, and presentations

Teaching Tactics from Teaching Theology & Religion

Teaching Tactics are short, 400 word one-page manuscripts describing a successful teaching strategy that could be replicated by others. Several Teaching Tactics are published in each issue of the journal Teaching Theology & Religion, an international peer-reviewed journal on teaching, published by Wiley-Blackwell in cooperation with the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion at Wabash College. The tactics are always available for free download.

Merlot

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.