Instructional Design Resources

Instructional Design                   Teaching and Learning              Assessment

Online Resources                      Software Resources                  Articles
  Applets
  Graphics
  Web Design

Instructional Design

Instructional Design Models : A very nice site from the University of Colorado at Denver School of Education.

Scott's Library: Educational Research Room (Instructional Theory/Design) : This site provides a nice collection of links to various academic institutions, including DoIT at UW-Madison.

Instructional Design Articles & Links : This .com site provides interesting links to sites that provide interesting links to .....

Google Search: Instructional Design Resources : This is a nice compilation of pertinent links.

Teaching and Learning 

NSF General Teacher Sites : A page of Teacher Links from the Directorate for Education and Human Resources at the National Science Foundation.

Dear Habermas, A Journal of Postmodern Thought : All I can say is plan to spend some time here. You can thank California State University and the UW-P for this site.

Internet Resources for Institutional Research : This University of Virginia site has mouseovers to explain each organization represented by buttons on the Homepage. The Map of Links button  provides "over 2,400 links by category".   

Theory Into Practice Database : TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief
summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts. 

Virginia Commonwealth University: Teaching : Topics include: Features, Best Practices, Evaluation, Conversations, Resources/Services, and Workshops/Seminars.  

Educational Theory Handbook : Nice inclusive individual site that provides content about twenty-three theorists and theories. 

International Forum of Educational Technology & Society : "The forum will benefit all developers of technology based educational systems (including AI researchers) by focusing on the practical purpose of their developments. It will also benefit educators who plan to enhance the teaching and learning processes and improve access to education."  ... And its free.

The National Teaching & Learning Forum HOME PAGE : I did not find extensive information here but some items of interest. I recommend going straight to the SiteMap.

Assessment

Change Magazine : "Change is AAHE's award-winning bimonthly magazine, published by Heldref Publications, a division of the non-profit Helen Dwight Reid Foundation, under the editorial leadership of the American Association for Higher Education." Here you may sample a bit of it online.

Tools for Teaching: Quizzes, Tests, and Exams : This is a fairly comprehensive collection of assessment information from the University of California, Berkeley.

Likert Scale : This is a really nice page which provides Likert Scale adjective in an organized table format from Boise State University.

Online Resources

Virtual Companion : This month's Virtual Companion is designed to accompany the Techped article "Meeting in Virtual Space" in The National Teaching and Learning Forum, Volume 9 Number 3. 

INFORMATION POLICY: Copyright and Intellectual Property : This is the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions site.  

Educational Resources : This page was developed by the Burrow Library at Rhodes University and provides numerous links.

  Applets

The Virtual Laboratory : What follows is a list of physics related Java Applets

Draw Mohr's Circle : If you have to ask...you don't want to go here...the engineering folks will get it.

  Graphics

1001 Free Background Graphics : I got the background for my pages there.

The Graphics File Format Page : "These pages contain specifications for various graphics file formats; along with a number of relevant graphics utilities, information, and URLs." All the technical information you could possibly desire appears to be at this site from the U.K.

Issues with Graphics Used on Web Pages in Office 2000 : The is a Microsoft page.  I would also recommend  When to Use Specific Graphics Formats in Office 2000 for  an explanation of graphic file types and characteristics.

  Web Design  

Yale Style Manual-Table of Contents : This is a quality comprehensive guide to web publishing from Yale.

Software Resources

TechSmith's Products : This is the source of one of my favorite and most useful tools SnagIt, a Windows screen capture software.  TechSmith also offers a screen recorder, video editor and AVI audio editor.

Apple - QuickTime : You can go to the download section and get the latest version of "QuickTime 4.1.2 is the latest version of Apple's complete technology for handling
video, sound, animation, graphics, text, music, and even 360-degree virtual reality (VR) scenes."  This version may be necessary to hear the audio on QuickTime movies. 

Instructional Design Articles & Links : This .com site provides interesting links to sites that provide interesting links to .....

Cognitive Approaches to Instructional Design  : This is a full reference to Cognitive Approaches to Instructional Design by Brent Wilson, David Jonassen, and Peggy Cole at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Postmodern Instructional Design : By Brent G. Wilson of the University of Colorado at Denver; To appear in C. R. Dills and A. A. Romiszowski (Eds.), Instructional development paradigms. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Educational Technology Publications, in press (to be published in March 1997).

Design and Use of Technologies : Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Albuquerque NM, February 1997. 

Teaching and Learning Issues : "Student Ratings and the Evaluation of Teaching. On this and other pages of our Web site, we discuss various teaching and learning issues. Our purpose is to facilitate and contribute to an ongoing conversation about these matters."
This site is a product of the  Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University.

Engines for Educators : "This is the default view on the book. It is for those who are interested in how people learn and what that says about how we should educate them."