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Online Teaching Resource Center
Submitted by: Martin Community College
Contact: Phyllis Broughton

Want to learn more about teaching online?  This website provides a good starting point with tips on Netiquette, hosting chats and discussion forums, developing virtual learning communities, organizing a website, basic html, online assessment and more.

Teaching Online provides an overview of online teaching and a description of the Blackboard course management system.

Students and Online Learning discusses the "handholding" that students need in becoming acclimated to the online learning environment.

Instructional Strategies examines the importance of communicating expectations for student behavior and participation in the virtual classroom and also discusses assessment in theory and practice.

Working with Technology introduces the many multimedia components that can be integrated into online teaching, suggests strategies for conducting web search and evaluating web resources, and illustrates several examples of how to organize your website's architecture.

Course Management Strategies offers advice for producing and running an online course—from start to finish.

Resources contains a bibliography of print resources and a webliography of links to important online learning, distance learning and educational technology resources.