Syllabus Snippets for the Wired Instructor
The University of Missouri has posted information for instructors using the web for courses on their campus. You will find useful information about setting up a syllabus online and how to be prepared for situations that may arise in your wired class.
http://iatservices.missouri.edu/

Handbook for Instructors on the Use of Electronic Course Discussion
This online handbook was prepared by Nancy Chism, Director, from the Office of Faculty and TA Development at the Ohio State University and is funded by the Ameritech Faculty Fellows Program. The handbook talks about electronic communication and its impact on higher education.
http://www.osu.edu/education/ftad/Publications/elecdisc/pages/home.htm

An Emerging Set of Guiding Principles and Practices for the Design and Development of Distance Education
Read about the IDE, Innovations in Distance Education, launched at Penn State University in 1995 with a grant from the AT&T Foundation, "to help universities create a supportive institutional culture in which the possibilities of distance education could be realized." If you are getting started with integrating technology on your campus, this is a great resource. http://www.cde.psu.edu/de/ide/guiding_principles/

Using the World Wide Web to Enhance Classroom Instruction
This article addresses the ways in which using the World Wide Web in your classroom can address the diverse needs of students. It presents a wealth of information about web-based instruction.

How Using Technology Affects The Learning Process and Faculty Behavior
This article summarizes the results of a survey put out by the Faculty Development Committee of the Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education and offers links to other resources for schools studying the role of technology in education. The article links out to many useful summaries of programs at universities and colleges in Indiana.
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article=675

The National Learning Communities Project
The National Learning Communities Project strives to strengthen curricular learning community efforts on individual campuses, as well as to foster more robust communities of learning community practice.
http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/

Perspectives from the Social Sciences
This resource for instructors provides essays on the issues emerging from the September 11th tragedy by leading social scientists from around the world.
http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/

The New World of Work
Help your students develop their leadership qualities and prepare for the world of work by taking their success skills from school to work.
http://www.cod.edu/facdev/leader/new.htm

Systems and Software for Putting Your Course on the Web
Check out this list of educational authoring software and commercial course management systems published in the Spring 2001 issue of the Computers in Chemical Education Newsletter. This helpful collection of information will provide you with information for making a decision about which tool is best for your school or course.
http://www.sfu.ca/person/lower/cai_articles/WebCAI.html

Three Models for Distance Education The Institute for Distance Education describes three models of distance education: distributed classroom, independent learning, and open learning. Find out more about these three models by visiting this web site.
http://umuc.edu/ide/modldata.html


Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism
Introduce your students to important information about the cost of plagiarism. This information is collected by a professor at Rutgers University in NJ.
http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/plagiarism598.html

Plagiarism.org
This web site was created specifically for educators concerned with plagiarism with the increase of materials available on the Internet.
http://www.plagiarism.org/

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project
If you are looking to add a critical thinking focus to your curriculum, check out the resources on this site on the Longview Community College, MO web site.
http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/toc.htm

Critical Thinking Consortium The Center for Critical Thinking has information and instructinoal guides to help instructors integrate Critical Thinking into every facet of teaching.
http://www.criticalthinking.org/

Multicutural Pavillion
A multitude of information and resources including definitions of multicutural education, multicultural education and the Internet, quotations to use in discussion, and essays and articles.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/

Glossary of Internet Terms
Brush up on your Internet terms with this glossary put together by the author of Success in College Using the Internet by Jack Pejsa.
http://www.luminet.net/~jackp/gloss2.htm