Distance Education Resources

This is a growing list of distance education resources faculty may find useful. The eLearning team will continue to add links, articles, and documents about the best practices of teaching online and hybrid courses. If you would like to recommend resources for this page, please email eLearning.

• Educational Resources

  On-campus resources

  • Teaching resources from textbook publishers
  • Linkedin Learning (Lynda.com)
  • McDermott Library – Streaming Media
  • McDermott Library - Open Educational Resources (OER)

  Some outside resources

  • Classic TV Ads
  • Google Video
  • Khan Academy
  • Merlot
  • MIT Videos
  • Moving Image Archive
  • OERTX
  • Open Educational Resources Collection by EDUCAUSE
  • TED
  • OEDb - Open Education Database
  • YouTube
  • Blackboard Exemplary Course Project
    Courses that model best practices in course design, interaction and collaboration, assessment and evaluation, meaningful technology use, and learner support. Check out the Exemplary Course Rubric which can be used as a guideline in developing and evaluating your online courses.
  • "e-cheating: Combating a 21st Century Problem"
    Tips on combating plagiarism from the T.H.E Journal.

  • The National Education Association (NEA)

  • Epigeum Courses
• Distance Learning Organizations
  • Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
  • Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
  • Association for Talent Development (ATD)
  • Educause
  • Instructional Technology Council (ITC)
  • National Education Associations (NEA)
  • Online Learning Consortium (OLC)
  • Texas Distance Learning Associations (TXDLA)
  • The Learning Guild
  • United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
  • WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET)
• Books
  • ATD Press Books
  • Distance Education Textbooks - Open Textbook Library
• Articles and Journals
  • AACE Journals
  • AECT Reference Library
  • Campus Technology magazine
  • Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Educause Review
  • Journal of the Instructional Technology Council
  • Learning Guild Publications
  • OLC's Online Learning Journal
  • The OLC Blog
  • TXDLA Journal of Digital Learning
  • USDLA Education Journal List
  • Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), U.S. Dept. of Education
  • LearnTechLib
  • Learning Solutions of the Learning Guild