Links to literature, guides, and other helpful resources related to best practices in teaching online courses.
- Crews, T., Wilkinson, K., and Neill, J. (2015). "Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education: Effective Online Course Design to Assist Students’ Success," MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 11(1).
- Crews, T., Bordonada T., Wilkinson, K. (2017) "Student Feedback on Quality Matters Standards for Online Course Design,"EDUCAUSE Review
- Hybrid Learning, On Your Time Initiatives Faculty Resources
- Frass, L. R., Rucker, R., and Washington, G. (2017). An Overview of How Four Institutions Prepare Faculty to Teach Online. Journal of Online Higher Education, (1)1.
- Moorefield-Lang, H.M., Copeland, C.A., & Haynes, A. (2016). "Accessing Abilities: Creating Innovative Accessible Online Learning Environments and Putting Quality Into Practice." Education for Information, 32(1), 27-33. doi:10.3233/EFI-150966
- U-Mass Handbook: Teaching and Learning Online - Communication, Community, and Assessment
- Ideas on Fostering Student Interaction in Online Courses (a Faculty Focus article)
- Gender Gap in Online Class Discussions (a Chronicle of Higher Education article)
- MERLOT’s Searchable Database: a curated collection of free and open online resources, including reusable learning objects.
- Moving a Face-to-Face Course Online Without Losing Student Engagement (a Faculty Focus article)
- Online Experiential Learning: As faculty and staff think about their experiential learning courses, including service-learning, community engagement, and internships, CIEL has compiled a list of resources to assist in the transition to an online or hybrid experiential learning course.
- Preparing to Teach a Large Online Course. Salter. A. (2015), Chronicle of Higher Education
- Using Debates to Teach Evidence-Based Practice in Large Online Courses, Journal article by faculty/staff from the College of Nursing: Mary Boyd, Beverly Baliko and Vera Polyakova-Norwood (2015), Journal of Nursing Education, 54(10), 578-582.
- Etiquette in the Virtual Classroom. Kelly Lovell, Miami University-Regional.
- Wiki Education Foundation gives professors the technical assistance they need to assign students, instead of writing a research paper, to write a brand-new Wikipedia entry, or expand an existing entry, on any topic in virtually any discipline. Students will pick up communication, media literacy, and critical thinking skills. Along the way, they’ll expand and improve the public’s access to knowledge of your field. It’s a win-win that inspires students in ways a traditional term paper never will.
- Distance Learning: Quarterly journal of United States Distance Learning Association. Free access to back issues; current year issues are available with paid membership.
- Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration: a free, peer-reviewed electronic quarterly journal with a specific focus on the management of distance education programs.
- Online Learning Consortium’s (OLC) Online Learning Journal: double-blind peer reviewed journal that promotes the development and dissemination of new knowledge at the intersection of pedagogy, emerging technology, policy, and practice in online environments.