Instructional Design Resources

The following are a series of links that have been collected by the Instructional Design Resource Center. We hope that you find them useful.

Encyclopedia of Instructional Design - The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and novice to intermediate practitioners in these fields, who need a brief overview as a starting point to further research on specific topics. Authors are graduate students, professors, and others who contribute voluntarily. Articles are short and use multimedia to enrich learning rather than merely decorate the pages.

Online Teaching Tricks & Tips

Tips for Online Teaching Success

"Instruction on the Web: The Online Student’s Perspective" - University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Journal article by three instructors previously published in the CSS Journal, no date. Their study examines the issues of online course design, implementation, and motivation from a student’s perspective.

Online Teaching and Learning Resources - National Education Association. List of excellent links for online instructors at all levels.

Online Teaching Tips - Extensive list by Karla Embleton, Iowa State University. The tips apply to any courseware package, but are particularly useful for those using WebCT.

Top 10 eLearning Tips - Press release from PrimeLearning.com, 12/6/2000. Designed for business e-learners, but useful to any student. Adds need for uninterrupted time, setting realistic learning goals, tacking breaks during long study periods, and considering resources beyond the computer.

Managing E-mail In and Out of the Classroom - At this site you can learn how to create folders to organize messages, keep track of several email accounts, send group messages to your students or other teachers, use automatic routing to place e-mail in designated folders, and import e-mail addresses.

Asynchronous Learning Networks - (JALN) is published online by Vanderbilt University for the ALN Web.

Compute-Ed - is a refereed electronic journal which publishes articles, letters and reviews about a broad range of issues in information technology in education, with an emphasis on classroom practice. Compute~Ed is concerned with issues and applications in teaching with and about technology in Primary, Secondary and Higher Education. It emphasizes classroom applications, and provides articles about resources, developments, new projects, concerns, ideas in teaching with technology, as well as aspects of Teaching Computing Studies.

DESIEN - is a searchable, interactive newsletter which is delivered the last business day of each month via an e-mail discussion list. Each issue offers original articles which emphasize distance education themes or focus items. News, updates, conference information, and contributions by subscribers are also regularly included.

Distance Education - is published twice a year in May and October. ODLAA members receive the journal or direct subscriptions are available. The aim of the journal is to engender and disseminate research and scholarship in distance education, open learning and flexible learning systems.

Educational Technology and Society - is a quarterly journal (January, April, July and October), that publishes articles on the issues affecting the developers of educational systems and educators who implement and manage such systems. Educause Quarterly - is a practitioner's journal for college and university managers and users of information resources--information, technology, and services.

IMEJ - Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning edited and produced by Wake Forest University. JIME - The aim of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education is to foster a multidisciplinary and intellectually rigorous debate on the theoretical and practical aspects of interactive media in education. The site was developed by the Open University in the U.K.

Journal of Distance Education - The Journal of Distance Education is an international publication of the Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE). Its aim is to promote and encourage scholarly work of an empirical and theoretical nature that relates to distance education in Canada and throughout the world.

Journal of Interactive Learning Research - The Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR) publishes papers related to the underlying theory, design, implementation, effectiveness, and impact on education and training.

Multimedia Schools - (MMS) is a practical how-to magazine sharply focused on the needs of school practitioners. Articles, reviews, and columns address issues associated with using electronic information resources in K-12 schools—Internet, online and multimedia databases, CD-ROM technology, computer hardware and software. SyllabusWeb - Syllabus Magazine, includes feature articles, case studies, product reviews, and profiles of technology use at the instructor, departmental, and institutional levels.

The Internet and Higher Education - is a quarterly journal designed to reach those faculty, staff, and administrators charged with the responsibility of enhancing instructional practices and productivity via the use of Information Technology (IT) and the Internet.

T.H.E. Journal Online - provides articles written by educators involved in integrating technology on their campuses and into their curricula. Articles describe effective administrative or instructional projects with a local, regional, statewide, national or international scope.

Transforming Teaching With Technology - is an interactive newsletter that focuses on the role of emerging technologies as catalysts to improve student learning. Each edition focuses on a specific class of technology, and spotlights various projects that use it. Issues often provide examples from the U.S. Department of Education's Star Schools Program