Instructional Resources

Visit these sites providing a comprehensive overview on the use of information and instructional technology in education.

  • Association for Educational Communications and Technology - an association providing leadership in educational communications and technology by linking professionals holding a common interest in the use of educational technology.
  • The Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC) - a consortium furnishing “leadership and a forum for information exchange to the providers of media and technology support for quality teaching and learning at higher education institutions.”
  • EDUCAUSE - a nonprofit association seeking to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
  • IMS Global Learning Consortium - a collaborative endeavor to develop standard technical parameters and facilitate their application to interoperable learning technologies.
  • MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) - a free, open resource furnishing links to learning materials of interest to faculty and students in higher education.
  • EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative - an enterprise striving to model educational environments employing information technology to enhance teaching and learning, control costs, and furnish greater access to higher education.
  • The National Teaching & Learning Forum - a newsletter offering faculty “a sustained and sustaining conversation about teaching and learning.”
  • New Media Consortium - a consortium with a “passion to transform the way people teach, learn, and create.”
  • MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) - a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world.
  • The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) - a community of individuals and organizations collaborating on the development of the leading non-proprietary, open source electronic portfolio software.
  • The Sakai Project - a joint venture “to integrate and synchronize…considerable educational software into a pre-integrated collection of open source tools.”

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