Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Distance Learning Educator resources

It's been quite awhile since I have posted anything on this blog. It's been a long road, but I am nearing the end. In our Distance Education Professional class we have an assignment to choose 7 goals regarding distance education.  We are to complete one each week. My first goal was to find 10 websites that support teaching in distance education. This goal fits nicely with a personal plan I had to compile resources/platforms to use in distance education or hybrid classes. I found quite a few resources just using the search: distance learning resources for educators. Here are some of the results:

1. http://www.teachingonthenet.org/     TeachingOntheNet.org offers practical tips for teaching online as well as professional development. This website is hosted by the Learning Resources Network, a non-profit education association.

2. http://distance-educator.com/    Distance-Educator.com is a website hosted by The World Bank to provide distance education professionals with resources. They offer a free curated distance education newsletter as well as the website.

3. http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/AdultEd/tdlearn.html    This website is hosted by the U.S. Department of Education offers resources for students and teachers of online education. There are also tabs for grants, laws regarding education, and data & research.

4. http://web.worldbank.org/archive/website00236B/WEB/AUTHORS.HTM   This is another website hosted by World Bank, which seems like an odd sponsor of these sites. This website is Global Distance EductioNet with links to various articles and other resources/websites.

5. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.0068v1.pdf   This is actually a link to an article by Nithya & Saravanan entitled Semantic Annotation and Search for Educational Resources Supporting Distance Learning. The authors introduce a platform that annotates and creates semantic connections between multimedia education resources to facilitate the use of these resources. I think it looks very interesting.

6. https://www.pinterest.com/npmaven/distance-learning-resources/  This is a link to a pinterest board created by Debra Beck EdD, which looks really interesting. I can't wait to browse the links!

7. http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/tsot   This is the website of Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) hosted by the University of Michigan. It includes strategies for online teaching, blog entries, grants, awards, and resources/publications.

8. http://www.fic.nih.gov/Global/Pages/training-resources.aspx   This is the Fogarty International Center Advancing Science for Global Health hosted by NIH. There are e-learning resources, networks, courses/programs, and links to research and global health.

9. http://idd.edc.org/resources/publications/modes-models-and-methods   International Development hosted by the Education Development Center provides information from over 35 countries, including a guide to distance education that can be downloaded for free. This is entitled, Distance Education for Teacher Training: Modes, Models, and Methods.

10. http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/80-oer-tools/   Finally, I found the OEDB or Open Education Database which includes free teaching and learning content, including lectures, assignments, activities, games, other distance learning tools, and extensive links to other websites.

See you next week for goal #2!