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.”