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| Advanced Learning Technologies |
These standards are provided by Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT), a unit within the University System of Georgia?s Office of Information and Instructional Technology.
http://www.alt.usg.edu/research/best/designstds.phtml
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| Major Instructional Design Solutions |
This site, primarily created by instructional designer JoAnn Gonzalez-Major, features modules, courses, blogs and portfolios that will have special interest for educators and course developers. The companion Web site Hitchhiker?s Guide to Course Development and blog Rose Colored Glasses are very good sources for locating a wide variety of teaching tools.
http://jmajor.midsolutions.org/
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| Michigan Virtual University: Standards for Quality Online Courses |
MVU has developed rigorous standards to guide the design and evaluation of online course quality. Based on decades of research and the work of the best minds in the field of Instructional Design, it has completed a comprehensive set of standards that now can be used to design and evaluate online courses. These standards are aimed at higher education courses but worthy of review by K-12 online teachers/virtual schools.
http://standards.mivu.org/
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| SREB Standards for Quality Online Courses |
This Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) publication, funded by the BellSouth Foundation, examines what constitutes a quality online course and outlines specific standards for course content, instructional design, student assessment, technology, and course evaluation and management.
http://publications.sreb.org/2006/06T05_Standards_quality_online_courses.pdf
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| W3C Worldwide Web Consortium |
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.
http://www.w3.org/
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