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| Connexions: Best Practices in Online Teaching A Course |
Connexions provides this course of practical strategies and pedagogical advice for instructors teaching in an online environment. The course includes advice about: preparing to teach in an online environment, managing the teaching of a course, and addressing larger issues surrounding online teaching (e.g., workload, intellectual property, etc.) The course includes interviews from a number of teachers who have taught in an online environment. This course is based on a training session offered to faculty who teach at The World Campus at Penn State University. While geared for higher education, many concepts are related to K-12 online instruction.
http://cnx.org/content/col10453/latest/
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| Distance Teaching and Learning Conference |
The annual conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, provides an exchange of current resources, research and best practices from around the world that are relevant to the design and delivery of distance education and training.
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/
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| DMOZ Open Directory Project Online Courses |
DMOZ provides links to many course offerings listed by topic. The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive, human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. Its name derives from directory.mozilla.org, which was its original URL. For a broader approach, consult Distance Learning in DMOZ.
http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Education/Distance_Learning/Online_Courses/
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| EdTech Leaders Online |
EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO) is a capacity-building online program for K-12 school districts, state departments of education, regional service centers, teacher training institutions and other educational organizations to enable them to provide effective online learning programs for teachers, administrators and students. ETLO programs include graduate-level training courses for online instructors and course designers and a catalog of online workshops focused on specific subject areas and grade levels.
http://edtechleaders.org
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| iNACOL: North American Council of Online Learning-Events |
This is a list of upcoming iNACOL and national conferences, events and webinars.
http://www.inacol.org/events/
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| iNACOL: North American Council of Online Learning-Forums |
Participate in iNACOL forums related to upcoming conferences, legislative updates, teacher resources and more.
http://www.inacol.org/forum/
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| iNACOL: Professional Development for Virtual School and Online Learning |
This report by the North American Council on Online Learning examines the types of professional development necessary to implement successful online learning.
http://www.inacol.org/docs/NACOL_PDforVSandOlnLrng.pdf
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| iNACOL: North American Council of Online Learning Virtual School Symposium |
iNACOL's VSS highlights the cutting-edge work in K-12 online education across the country. It is the only national conference focused solely on K-12 online learning and virtual schools in such a comprehensive way, and it is attended by the highest-level practitioners and policy-makers seeking to develop e-learning programs within educational institutions in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
http://www.virtualschoolsymposium.org/
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| ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) |
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is a source for professional development, knowledge generation, advocacy and leadership for innovation. A nonprofit membership organization, ISTE provides leadership and service to improve teaching, learning and school leadership by advancing the effective use of technology in Pre-K'12 and teacher education.
http://www.iste.org/
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| Learning Resources Network (LERN) |
Learning Resources Network (LERN) is an international association of lifelong learning programming that offers information and resources to providers of lifelong learning programs.
http://www.lern.org
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| National Commission on Teaching and America's Future |
The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to improving teaching quality nationwide.
http://www.nctaf.org/
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| National Education Computing Conference (NECC) |
NECC provides a forum in which to learn, exchange and survey the field of educational technology. This annual conference ' presented by ISTE and keyed to the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) ' features hands-on workshops, lecture-format and interactive concurrent sessions, discussions with key industry leaders and an extensive educational technology exhibit.
http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/
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| PBS Teacher Line |
PBS TeacherLine is a resource that contains high-quality, standards-based, graduate-level courses that offer teachers the professional development opportunities they need in an accessible online format that makes learning fun, flexible and collaborative. You can earn graduate credit, PDPs or CEUs while gaining strategies and resources to bring directly to your classroom.
http://www.pbs.org/teacherline/
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| Sloan-C Consortium |
Sloan-C encourages the collaborative sharing of knowledge and effective practices to improve online education in learning effectiveness, access, affordability for learners and providers, and student and faculty satisfaction.
http://www.sloan-c.org/
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| SREB: Guidelines for Professional Development for Online Teachers |
Working with member states, SREB developed the nation's first Standards for Quality Online Teaching, which define the qualifications of a quality online teacher and the standards needed for academic preparation, content knowledge, online skills and delivery. Building on those standards, this report presents extensive guidelines that can assist state virtual schools as they hire, train, support and evaluate online teachers.
http://publications.sreb.org/2009/09T01_Guide_profdev_online_teach.pdf
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| SREB: Standards for Online Professional Development |
This publication of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) provides standards for planning and evaluating online professional development courses and programs.
http://publications.sreb.org/2004/04T04-Standards_Online_Prof_Dev.pdf
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| SREB: Standards for Quality Online Teaching |
Funded by the BellSouth Foundation, this publication of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), examines what qualifications are needed to be a quality online teacher and outlines specific standards for academic preparation, content knowledge, online skills and delivery, and more.
http://publications.sreb.org/2006/06T02_Standards_Online_Teaching.pdf
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| Virtual Instructor's Academy of Texas. VIATx |
The Virtual Instructor's Academy of Texas provides NACOL and SREB-aligned online professional development for K-12 online instructors. The Online Instructor's Training, Part I, II and III provide 30 hours of collaborative and student-centered learning. Teachers participate in synchronous and asynchronous discussions, wikis, shared documents and work with many other online learning tools. Online Instructor's Training, Part I includes 'Roles, Collaboration, and Learner Engagement' (10 hours). Online Instructor's Training, Part II covers 'Communication and Student Success' (10 hours). Online Instructor's Training, Part III includes 'ADA, Copyright, Fair Use and Assessment' (10 hours). The Virtual Instructor's Academy is available at http://www.via-tx.org.
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