Helpful Links for Faculty

Distance Learning Resouorces

Interaction Aides

Training Guides

Distance Learning Resources

UT TeleCampus

The UT TeleCampus is a central support unit that facilitates distance education initiatives within the University of Texas System.  The UT TeleCampus staff develop, support and promote distance education programs and courses to further the UT components' goals of providing more access to higher education for the residents of Texas and beyond.

NETnet

The Northeast Texas Consortium or "NETnet" is the collaborative effort of 15 higher education institutions to bring a wide array of educational opportunities to 50 rural Northeast Texas counties. NETnet's objective is to make available - via innovative distance education technology applications - a diverse curriculum specifically designed to meet the evolving needs of a highly competitive, yet geographically isolated, client population.

Distance Education Clearinghouse

The Distance Education Clearinghouse is a comprehensive and widely recognized website bringing together distance education information from national and international sources. New information and resources are being added to the Distance Education Clearinghouse on a continual basis.  The Clearinghouse is managed and maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, in cooperation with its partners and other University of Wisconsin institutions.

Interaction Aides

Survey Monkey

Allows anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily (free, but you are limited to less than 100 responses to each survey). This program even analyzes the results for you!
 

Hot Potatoes

The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.

The Research Channel

Search their library of programs (by Program Title, Series Title, Institution, Subject, New Releases, or do a Keyword Search) to find free videos on subjects in Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Engineering and Computer Science, Health and Medicine, K-12 and Education, Sciences, or Social Sciences.  

The CASTLE Toolkit

The CASTLE toolkit is an on-line authoring tool that allows course tutors and managers to quickly create interactive quizzes for use on the web.

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute - BioInteractive
The Institute has produced a variety of award-winning publications, videos and other free materials that can be ordered online. Also available at this Web site is BioInteractive, a collection of virtual labs, biological animations and other learning modules; an online laboratory safety training program and other interactive sites for curious people of all ages. The News section features the latest developments in biomedical research and related fields.

Training Guides

ITV Instructor's Handbook

This site was developed by Western Wisconsin Technical College and it provides useful information for ITV Instructors.  Topics covered include Teaching Concepts, Audio/Visual Tips, ITV Training, Delivery of Material and FAQ's.

Videoconferencing Cookbook

This cookbook offers a wide variety of information concerning the use of videoconferencing as an emerging technology. There is even a section on videoconferencing etiquette.

Engineering Outreach at the University of Idaho  -

Distance Education at a Glance

In order to help teachers, administrators, facilitators, and students understand distance education, Barry Willis, the Associate Dean for Outreach and the Engineering Outreach staff present the following series of guides highlighting information detailed in Dr. Willis' books, Distance Education - Strategies and Tools and Distance Education - A Practical Guide.