While I will be teaching 3 online courses in the spring, I am still working on the Advanced Internet course design. I have designed all of the assessments and am now working on finding appropriate readings and other resources that my distance students can access. I am sometimes surprised at the number of resources that are available. While not all are of good quality, I have discovered two recently that I find very good.
Usually, most of the readings that I assign my students are from the university library online article databases and open-access online journals (many are now peer reviewed). While searching for resources, I made the discovery of a Creative Commons university publisher in Canada at Athabasca University. The books are freely available in eformat and you can download them at no cost. The books are peer reviewed which helps provide standards for the material found in them. I will have my students read a couple of the chapters from: The Theory and Practice of Online Learning, edited by Terry Anderson and Fathi Elloumi. The book is found at: http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/. Athabasca Univeristy has books in a variety of fields that are made freely available.
Another resource I particularly liked was The Rapid E-Learning Blog at: http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/. This blog has some wonderful enties and interesting discussions. I plan to go through it carefully and point my students to some of the entries that will be useful to them in the course.
These are not the only online resources I found or will be using, just the most recent.
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