Introduction to Telecommunications in Education


Good Teaching Practices

A Brief Summary of the Best Practices in College Teaching
A list of best practices compiled by Tom Drummond of North Seattle Community College

A TEACHER'S DOZEN Fourteen General, Research-Based Principles for Improving Higher Learning in Our Classrooms"
A list of best practices compiled by Tom Angelo

Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database
Greg Kearsley's database of learning theories

Good Teaching Is Good Teaching - Lawrence C. Ragan
An Emerging Set of Guiding Principles and Practices for the Design and Development of Distance Education

Indicator: Professional Development
An online paper by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory on how staff development generates the changes in curriculum and instruction that pull students into higher states of growth.

In-service teachers professional development models in the use of information and communication technologies
A report to the SchoolNet National Advisory Board by Telelearning, Inc.

Pacing Change
From Now ON, The Educational Journal

Paper on 6 Challenges for Educational Technology 
A paper by Chris Dede from Harvard on how educational technology can be leveraged to support student learning.

Professional Development in a Technological Age: New Definitions, Old Challenges, New Resources
A paper on professional teacher and development and the use of technology.

Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities
Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University

Learning Styles

Learning Styles
A series of links related to learning styles

Learning Style and Personality Inventories
Links to a series of online learning style and personality inventories


Technology and Multiple Intelligences."The Teacher Tap: Professional Development Resources for Teachers
An online paper describing what are the multiple intelligences, what do they have to do with technology, and how can weincorporate these ideas into teaching and learning.

Multimedia Encourages New Learning Styles
An online paper indicating that educational technology, when used appropriately, helps the teacher and the students to create a caring, creative community of learners.

Multimedia and Multiple Intelligences
An article by Shirley Veenema and Howard Gardner on how multimedia can be used as a tool to support the development of the multiple intelligences.

Seven Principles

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
The original 'Seven Principles' paper by Art Chickering and Zelda Gamson

Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever
This paper by Art Chickering and Steve Erhman describes some of the most cost-effective and appropriate ways to use computers, video, and telecommunications technologies to advance the Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Teaching.

Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice - Examples
Example of the seven principles in face to face and distance classrooms.

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education – Suggestions for Implementation from Brigham Young University
A series of suggestions for implementing the seven principles

Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice Using WebCT
From the State University of West Georgia

Teaching at an Internet Distance: the Pedagogy of Online Teaching and Learning
A summary report for the University of Illinois regarding a year long seminar on the pedagogy of online teaching and learning.

Introduction to the Internet and the WWW

Déjà vu - the web as we remember it
A site to help you experience the history of the web!

History of Internet and WWW : View from Internet Valley
An overview to the philosophy and history of the Internet with related links and a section on pertinent statistics.

Mind Travel Guide
This site presents "Mind Travels" or "webtours" as a way of sharing ideas on the WWW.

New Tools for Teaching:  J. J. O'Donnell
A guide to using the WWW in education.

Web 101: Web Basics
An introductory on-line class to using the WWW.

Who's Who in Instructional Technology
A listing of the names of prominent people in the field of instructional technology with links to their personal home pages.

Internet Terminology and Internet Etiquette (Netiquette)

Internet Terminology
 
NetLingo - The Internet Language Dictionary
This online dictionary contains definitions of hundreds of words that are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

 

Netiquette

Netiquette Home Page
This site addresses netiquette as both common courtesy online and the informal "rules of the road" of cyberspace.

Practicing Good Netiquette
A collection of helpful guidelines for communicating with others on the Internet.

The Nature of Hypertext and Hypermedia

 The WWW offers a unique learning environment characterized by hypertext and hypermedia.  The terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" were coined in 1965 by Ted Nelson.   This section explores the nature of these phenomena.

Hypertext

"A kind of document that contains links to other documents. Hypertext documents can be structured in many kinds of relationships, rather than in a restricting hierarchical order or menu.  Hypertext is text that is not constrained by physical limits like printed text. On the Web, hypertext links (hyperlinks) allow connections to be made to files and information on many computers around the world. Hypertext is both the conceptual and technical foundation of the Web as a globally distributed system of information" (Irvine, 1997).

An Introduction to Hypertext
The University of Colorado at Denver's School of Education has compiled the resources found at this site.  Resources relating to hypertext include history, theory, and educational applications.

How Should Hypertext Be Used in Education?
A collection of resources addressing various hypertext applications in education.

Hypertext '96
The on-line proceedings of the Seventh AMC (Association for Computing Machinery) Conference on Hypertext.

 

Hypermedia

"The method of linking and displaying computer files in more than one digital medium (text, audio, image or graphics, and video). Hypermedia expands the hypertext concept to embrace all digital  media. The Web is a hypermedia system" (Irvine, 1997).

(Please note that the term "multi-media", used in the strictest of senses, refers to using, involving, or encompassing several media at the same time.  Some of the links below are for information or resources on hypermedia, while others refer to multimedia.)

Index to Multimedia Information Sources
A collection of links to the topic of multimedia, including FAQs, guides, and tutorials.

 
Memex and Beyond
This web site represents a major research, educational, and collaborative web site integrating the historical record of and current research in hypermedia.

Last Update: Norm Vaughan 2005/02/26