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Before You Go Online... "Suggestions for Faculty Preparing to Teach Online Material"
Best Practice Resources

1. American Distance Ed Consortium Guiding Principles
(www.adec.edu/admin/papers/distance-learning_principles.html)
2. Southern Regional Ed Board's Electronic Campus Principles of Good Practice (www.electroniccampus.org) and Criteria for Evaluating Online Courses (www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/online.asp)
3. Innovations in Distance Ed (www.outreach.psu.edu/de/ide/guiding_principles)
4. Sloan Consortium Effective Practices (www.sloanconsortium.org/effective/index.asp) 
& Learning Effectiveness Pillar (www.aln.org/taxonomy/term/850)
5. EDUCAUSE (www.educause.edu)
6. ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Ed (www.eric.ed.gov)
9. Multimedia Ed Resource for Learning and Online Teaching - Merlot (jolt.merlot.org)
10. List of helpful websites: faculty-center.org/OnlineInstructionResources
 
Nice categorization of web 2.0 tools. http://www.go2web20.net

Quality Lectures to possibly embed into your course... http://academicearth.org

i) 101 SL uses for college teaching. www.facstaff.elon.edu/mconklin/pubs/glshandout.pdf
ii) BioMed Central describes uses for Web 2.0 tools. www.biomedcentral.com/content.pdf
iii) U. of Delaware Wikis in Higher Ed.www.copland.udel.edu/~mathieu/wiki/2008.pdf
iv) 2009 Horizon Report NMC/Educause. http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Report.pdf
v) Rice U. Best Online Teaching Practices. http://cnx.org/content/col10453/1.2
vi) U of Maryland Classroom Standards. http://www.umbc.edu/oit/classroomtech_Standard.pdf
vii) Emory U. Classroom Guidelines. www.college.emory.edu/about/classroomGuidelines.pdf
viii) Carnegie Mellon U. Classroom Tech. http://www.educause.edu/sites/default/files.pdf
ix) MacArthur Confronting the Culture. www.digitallearning.macfound.org/Jenkins_Paper.pdf
x) Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR). www.net.educause.edu/pdf/ERS0808w.pdf
xi) Educause Implementing Best Practices. www.net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM05312.pdf
xii) Educause Initiative on Second Life. www.net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7038.pdf
xiii) First Class Ed uses Facebook as a course tool. http://169.244.138.14/~terri_dawson.pdf
xiv) Educause Flip cameras Initiative. www.net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7043.pdf
xv) Faculty Focus online retention. www.facultyfocus.com/strategies-retention 
xvi) UMass Online Teach Handbook. www.umass.edu/handbook/TeachOnline_Handbook.pdf
xvii) West Virginia U Teaching Online Tips. www.oit.wvu.edu/itrc/TeachingOnlineTips.pdf
xix) U Cincinnati room designations. www.uc.edu/architect/documents/design/learnenv.pdf

Dr. Cathy Cavanaugh/University of Florida (education.ufl.edu/faculty/cathycavanaugh)Possibilities for Best Practices of Effective Teaching Online [Judith Boettcher]