Contains wonderful resources for teaching, including a course design tutorial useable by anyone, and many resources for teaching geology.

Course design online tutorial to help you: * Articulate goals for a course or portion of a course. * Build a course or portion of a course that meets those goals and assesses student learning. * Explore a variety of teaching techniques that emphasize student engagement and that place responsibility for learning on the students. * Develop a plan for a rigorous, effective, and innovative course.

Presents four "strategies for maintaining a shared vision for your multimedia product": respect (for the skills each member of the team brings to the project), regular consultation (that keeps the project on track and allows sharing of ideas), specificity (that avoids vague descriptions of what you want from the project), and a paper trail (to document the design process). (PDF format)

An interactive questionnaire that estimates what an institution can expect to pay for online courses over a seven year period based on information you provide about the number of students enrolled at the institution, whether a technology fee is charged to students and other criteria.

Document by Arthur Chickering and Stephen Ehrmann expands on the original "Seven Principles for Best Practice in Undergraduate Education" with applications of technology.

By Thomas Angelo and Patricia Cross, this inventory is designed to help faculty focus on their teaching and learning goals for their courses.