Online Resources for Instructional Technology (O-R-I-T)
Prepared for the Spring 2008 Convocation of Kingsborough Community College.
This site is designed to be a starting point for those interested in locating higher education instructional design resources.
Developed by Dr. Allan Mirwis, Reader Services Librarian. Last updated February 19, 2008. Site URL:
I.Noteworthy SitesII.Main Listing
I.Noteworthy Sites
All of these sites have been selected for either noteworthy content or organization.
Each one is identified by an asterisk in theMain Listing.
Send comments, suggestions for additional web sites or changes in these Noteworthy Sites to.
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1.American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) >Learning Circuits2.Arizona State University of the West > Land of Librarianship Links >Digital Libraries: Collections, Initiatives & Projects
3.Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)> Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology
4.Central Queensland University (Australia) >Online Collaborative Learning in Higher Education
5.Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies > E-Learning Handbook
6.Distance Education Resources
7.Distance-Educator - The Place to Start Looking for Everything Related to Distance Education and Elearning.
8.Distance-Educator > WebLinks
9.EDvancenet > The Leader’s Guide to Education Technology
10.E-Learning Centre > Library
11.elearnspace. everything elearning.
12.Faculty Development Associates
13.George Mason University > Instructional Design Knowledge Base> Exploring IT Resources > Exploring IT Resources
14.IMS Global Learning Consortium
15.International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) > National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project,
16.International Technology Education Association (ITEA) > Technology Education Resources
17.Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
18.Kansas State University >Individual Development and Educational Assessment Center (IDEA)
19.League for Innovation in the Community College
20.League for Innovation in the Community College > Getting Results
21.Learning Through Technology (LT2)
22.Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI) >What a Site! Finding, Evaluating, and Integrating Web Sites
23.MIT OpenCourseWare >Free Online Course Materials
24.Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System
25.Network of Illinois Learning Resources in Community Colleges – Information Literacy Toolkit
26.North Carolina State University > American Distance Education Association Consortium > Satellite Resources
27.Northwest Educational Technology Consortium > Connections for K-12 Teaching & Learning Over Distance > Online Essentials
28.Northwest Educational Technology Consortium > Connections for K-12 Teaching & Learning Over Distance >Online Education Resources
29.Ohio University Learning Network > Center for Academic Technologies > elearning-reviews
30.Online Education and Learning Management Systems - Global E-learning in a Scandinavian Perspective
31.Open Educational Resources Commons
32.PBS >TeacherLine
33.Purdue University > EdTech ProjectLearning Theories for Instructional Designers
34.Second Life
35.Slideshare> Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments, The
36.Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
37.Southwest Educational Development Laboratory >Technology Assistance Program >Constructing Knowledge: A Review of the Literature
38.Southwest Educational Development Laboratory >Technology Assistance Program >Constructing Knowledge With Technology
39.TeAch-nology
40.United States Distance Learning Association > An Instructional Media Selection Guide for Distance Learning
41.University of Colorado at Denver, School of Education > Instructional Technology Connections
42.University of Delaware > Center for Teacher Effectiveness > Best Practices in Higher Education
43. University of Maryland > Office of Information Technology (OIT) > Instructional Technology Resources
44. University of Maryland > Office of Information Technology (OIT) > Teaching With Electronic Technology
45.University of Maryland > Office of Information Technology (OIT) > Resources
46. University of Maryland University Library >Virtual Resource Guide for Teaching With Technology
47.University of North Carolina > Center for Instructional Technology > Information Technology Services > Publications > Resource Guides
48.University of Oklahoma > Instructional Development Program > Tips on Teaching
49.University of Texas at Austin >Center for Instructional Technologies > World Lecture Hall
50.Vanderbilt Center for Teaching> Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) > Teaching Resources
51.Vanderbilt University > Center for TeachingScholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
52.WebJunction >Current Cites - A Monthly Selection of Annotated Citations of Current Literature in Information Technology.
53.Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET) >edu.tools
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II.Main Listing
This section contains information, when available, for almost 500 web sites – a description of the site and links that are provided on the home page. For some sites, a separate entry has been created for helpful links included on the home page.
You have the following options to locate web sites on a specific subject:
- Find – Hold both the CTRL and the F keys. Displays the Find dialog box to search the current document.
- Basic search- Clickhereto search only the top web page for all of these websites.
- Comprehensive search- Clickhereto search all of the web pages for all of these websites.
* / Title / Information about site
1.21stCentury Connections / “This Web site is dedicated to delivering technology solutions that will help students to learn 21st century skills.”
| 21st Century Learning| Professional Development | Success Stories | Partner Knowledge Base |News | Events | / / Contact / © 2007
2.Abbycon.com's Directory of Distance Education / “Abbycon.com is the specialized directory for distance education.”
| Accredited Online SchoolsFind leading accredited Online Schools ranked by popularity GuideToOnlineSchools.com | Distance EducationEarn a Degree Online! Attend Class Anytime, Day or Night. | /
3.About.com > Distance Learning / “David Butler, a community college librarian and distance education consultant in Northern California, has compiled an extensive list of resources for this distance education guide. Resources such as articles, best books, copyright materials and accreditation issues are presented. Links to education-level specific materials are also available.”
| Distance Learning 101 | Choosing a School | Accreditation Info | Online College | Online High School | Free Courses | Paying for School | Study Skills | Online Resources | Technology | Using Your Degree | /
4.Academic Info >Digital Library / “Academic Info is an online subject directory of over 25,000 hand-picked educational resources for high school and college students as well as a directory of online degree programs and admissions test preparation resources (SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, USMLE, TOEFL). We also offer timely news and analysis of critical events including the Iraq War, Afghanistan Reconstruction, Hurricane Katrina recovery, the genocide in the Sudan, and the War on Terrorism.”
| Subject Specific Digital Libraries | Electronic Libraries & Digital Archives| Digital Library Methods & Research | Libraries & Library Catalogs | / / Contact / February 2007
5.Active Learning Site / “This site supports the scholarship of teaching by providing research-based resources designed to help faculty use active learning successfully in college and university classrooms.”
|Workshops | Bibliographies | Summaries | Internet Links | /
6.Agency for Instructional Technology / “The Agency for Instructional Technology has been a leader in educational technology since 1962. A nonprofit organization, AIT is one of the largest providers of instructional TV programs in North America.”
| People | Announcements | What's New | Product Development | Digital Content | Lessons ALIVE! | TECHNOS | Contact | Search |
| Site Map | / / Contact / n.d.
7.Agency for Instructional Technology | DigitalContent| / “The Agency for Instructional Technology has been a leader in educational technology since 1962. A nonprofit organization, AIT is one of the largest providers of instructional TV programs in North America. AIT is also a leading developer of other educational media, including: online instruction, CDs, DVDs and instructional software.”
Site Map / / Contact / n.d.
8.AIM25 >Archives in London and the M25Area
/ “AIM25 is a major project to provide electronic access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over ninety higher education institutions and learned societies within the greater London area. This work is in progress; new descriptions are being added regularly. A number of descriptions have not yet been supported by additional index entries. Their indexing will follow later in the course of the project.”| Useful Links - Gateways and Databases - Relevant RSP Projects - London Archives - Archival Bodies - External Thesauri - Local History - Family History | / / Contact / n.d.
9.America Connects Consortium / “The America Connects Consortium (ACC) supported the work of community technology centers across the country. Funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education from 2000-2005, ACC provided technical assistance to centers funded through the federal CTC program. Through training, evaluation, resource development, and research, ACC supported the use of information technology to improve achievement in education and enrich community life.”
| Resources | News & Events | Learn | In the Field | Research | About ACC | / / Contact / © 1994-2006
10.America Connects Consortium > Resources / “Community technology center staff, users, and others will find a range of information, tools, guides, and web links in these pages. ACC has assembled resources on everything from creating a CTC and forging partnerships to developing educational, inclusive programs that prepare people of all ages for the workforce and for life in the information age.”
| Starting a CTC: Guides to developing a business plan, setting up a center, and engaging users and funders in the community | Sustaining a CTC: How to cultivate funds, goods and services, volunteers, and community support | Capacity Building: Improve your organization through board and staff development, good management practices, and effective planning | Partnerships: How to form mutually beneficial partnerships within and across sectors | Technology: Up-to-date information on hardware, software, and services for community technology | Disability / Inclusion: How to optimize the accessibility of your center for all users | Education: Program ideas, activities, and curricula for every level and every interest | Workforce Development: Effective approaches to training and supporting new workers and career-changers | Economic Development: Helping center users become entrepreneurs and build assets | Evaluation: Guides and tools to help evaluate your program | / / Contact / © 1994-2006
11.American Heritage Project
/ “The American Heritage Virtual Archive Project will investigate one of the most serious problems facing knowledge seekers everywhere, the geographic distribution of both collections of primary source material and the written guides describing and providing access to them. We propose to solve this problem by creating a prototype ‘virtual archive’, integrating into a single source, hundreds of archival finding aids describing and providing access to a large body of primary source materials from collections documenting American culture and history held by four major academic research libraries. The project will demonstrate the feasibility of providing both scholars and average American citizens with user-friendly, universal Internet access to the research collections of the world.”| Project Description | Browse Finding Aids | EAD Home Page | Papers & Documents | SGML Tools | FTP Site | Go to SunSite | / / Contact / © 2000
* / 12.American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) >Learning Circuits / “ASTD launched Learning Circuits in January 2000. Its goal was to promote and aid the use of e-learning, creating a body of knowledge about how to use technology efficiently and effectively for learning. It delivers a fully interactive Website with discussions, demos and resources, and articles on a weekly basis. A bi-weekly opt-in email newsletter, LC Express, sends news, teasers, and links to subscribers. There are nearly 500 articles currently on the Website.”
| Discussion Groups | Distance Learning/E-Learning | Education Sector | Information Technology (IT) Training | International Sites | Job Connections | Knowledge Management | Presentation Resources | Small Business / Virtual Work | Web-Based Training Resources | Web Development Tools | / / n.d.
* / 13.Arizona State University of the West > Land of Librarianship Links >Digital Libraries: Collections, Initiatives & Projects / | Canadian Projects | Regional U.S. Projects | U.S. Projects by State | Native Americans | Organizations | Foreign Nations | Bibliography | / / Contact / August 23, 2006
* / 14.Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)> Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology / | Learning and Cognitive Theories (Shorts) - Information processing - Piaget's Constructivism - Bloom's Taxonomy - Vygotsky's constructivism - Situated Cognition - Social Constructivism | Learner-Centered Theories (Shorts) - Motivation - Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles - Teaching and Learning in Affective Domain - Creativity - Adult Learning | Inquiry Strategies: Tasks - Constructionism, Learning by Design, and Project Based Learning - Problem Based Instruction - I-Search - Case-Based Learning| Inquiry Strategies: Changing Learners' Minds - Conceptual Change - Transformative Learning | Tools for Teaching and Learning: Changing or Encouraging Human Behaviors - Cognitive Apprenticeship - Examples of Modeling - Scaffolding - Articulation and Reflection - Resource-Based Learning - Experiential Learning - Six C's of motivation - Behaviorism| Tools for Teaching and Learning: Technology Tools - Cognitive Tools - Computer Mediated Instruction | Socially Oriented Theories - Cooperative Learning - Learning Communities as an Instructional Model | Direct Instruction Strategies - Reciprocal Teaching - Reading Recovery | / / Contact / © 2001
15.Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)>Curricula Data of Degree Programs in Educational Communications and Technology / “In order to bring to you the most up-to-date listing of these programs, AECT now brings the directory online. Representatives of academic programs have completed updating their listing online, producing a database that includes program information, school location, faculty members' names, degrees offered, and more. As more schools submit their information, the online directory is the most comprehensive and accurate directory of its kind.” / / Contact / © 2001
16.Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education > Education and Information Technology Library > Digital HistoricalInquiry Project / “The Digital Historical Inquiry Project is an effort to create and grow a consortium of schools and colleges of education interested in promoting historical inquiry in the preparation of pre-service social studies teachers. The Consortium will produce innovative programs of study that will allow pre-service and in-service social studies teachers to learn the methods of digital historical inquiry and implement those methods in their teaching experiences. Digital historical inquiry means taking full advantage of current and emerging technologies to support conceptualizations of learning history that stress developing inquiry, perspective taking and meaning making over the current transmission textbook-driven model. This project includes a model for broad dissemination and sustainability of specific pedagogical strategies for transforming social studies pre-service and in-service teacher education in schools and colleges of education across the country.”
| Administration & Business (420) | Assessment & Evaluation (508) | Education Levels (154) | Educational Environments(331) | General(518) | Learner Characteristics(235) | People(575) | Subject Areas(836) | Teaching & Learning (2290) | Technology(1113) | / / E-mail / © 2005
17.Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education > Education and Information Technology Library >Digital Library for Information Technology and Education / “The Digital Library is a valuable online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning. The AACE Digital Library enables users to: Conduct scholarly research. Keep current on the latest research and publications in their fields. Access and fully search to publications in an easy, searchable, and efficient manner. Maintain their academic interests in the area of information technology in education. Receive Table of Contents Alerts prior to publication.”
| Journals | Proceedings | Topics | / / E-mail / © 2005
18.Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) > Education and Information Technology Library > Topics /
| Administration & Business (420) | Assessment & Evaluation (508) | Education Levels (154) | Educational Environments(331) | General (518) | Learner Characteristics (235) | People (575) | Subject Areas (836) | Teaching & Learning (2290) | Technology (1113) |
/ / Contact / © 200719.Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) > Education and Information Technology Library > Journals > International Journal on E-Learning /
“Advances in technology and the growth of e-learning to provide educators and trainers with unique opportunities to enhance learning and teaching in corporate, government, healthcare, and higher education.’ IJEL serves as a forum to facilitate the international exchange of information on the current research, development, and practice of e-learning in these sectors. Led by an Editorial Review Board of leaders in the field of e-Learning, the Journal is designed for the following audiences: researchers, developers, and practitioners in corporate, government, healthcare, and higher education. IJEL is a peer-reviewed journal.”
2002 - 2008 / / Contact / © 200720.Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) > Education and Information Technology Library > Journals > Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia /
“JEMH is designed to provide a multi-disciplinary forum to present and discuss research, development and applications of multimedia and hypermedia in education. The main goal of the Journal is to contribute to the advancement of the theory and practice of learning and teaching using these powerful and promising technological tools that allow the integration of images, sound, text, and data.”
1996 - 2008 / / Contact / © 200721.Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) > AACE Journal > International Forum on Information Technology in Education / “The AACE Journal (AACEJ), originally a print journal entitled Educational Technology Review (ETR), has been transformed into an online publication to not only increase timeliness of content but also to enhance every issue with the current and future electronic resources and tools available on the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) website. AACEJ provides a multidisciplinary forum and focal point for AACE members to exchange information between disciplines, educational levels, and information technologies.”
1999 - 2008 / / Contact / © 2007
22.Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) / “The Association (founded in 1981) is an international, educational and professional not-for profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the knowledge, theory, and quality of learning and teaching at all levels with information technology.”
| Publications | Conferences | Societies & Chapters | Inter-Organizational Projects | / / Contact / © 2007
23.Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) > Education and Information Technology Library (Ed/IT Library) / “The Digital Library is a valuable online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning. The AACE Digital Library enables users to: Conduct scholarly research; Keep current on the latest research and publications in their fields; Access and fully search to publications in an easy, searchable, and efficient manner; Maintain their academic interests in the area of information technology in education; Receive Table of Contents Alerts prior to publication.”