Best Practices Inventory
We believe quality teaching and learning is built upon research findings and best practices in education. This section serves as an inventory for a range of helpful resources such as quality instructional design, quality standards and rubrics, effective teaching and learning practices, technologies and processes, student and support resources.
Resources for Online Teaching & Learning
- California Community Colleges/California Virtual Campus-Online Education Initiative — CVC-OEI Resources for Remote Instruction and Services
- Colorado Community Colleges Online (CCCOnline) — CCCOnline COVID-19 Support and Resources website.
- Getting Started with Canvas in 10 Steps (Faculty)
- Open Textbook Library — Make a difference in your students' lives with free, openly-licensed textbooks.
- Provide appropriate help desk support, training, and consultation services to institutions and students.
- OPEN SUNY and SUNY Online — Resources for remote learning during COVID-19 shared by the OPEN SUNY and SUNY Online for campus leaders, students and faculty
- Quality Matters: QM Emergency Remote Instruction (ERI) Checklist
- UCF Keep Teaching (for Faculty)
- UCF Keep Learning (for Students)
- How to Quickly (and Safely) Move a Lab Course Online
- Suggestions for Teaching a Synchronous Class — The Florida State College at Jacksonville shared a document based on a Faculty Focus article to guide instructors in synchronous online teaching.
Virtual and Remote Labs
- Virtual and Remote Labs — The University of Central Florida's Pegasus Innovation Lab compiled rich resources as a comprehensive inventory of tools and platforms available for educators.
- How to Rethink Science Lab Classes — This Inside Higher Ed article identifies five objectives for online labs that are critical to any science laboratory experience.
- How to Quickly (and Safely) Move a Lab Course Online — The Chronicle of Higher Education reviews how to safely and quickly move a lab course online.
Copyright
- Resources on Copyright & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research — Library Copyright Experts have joined together to provide these resources for higher education, including college, research, community college, and special libraries.
Well-being
- Well-being in Stressful Times — This guide is for keeping calm and keeping up your spirits in stressful time. See the "Stuck at home" tab for things to do with kids, activities for yourself, and help with classes.
K-12 Resources
- American School Counselor Association
- Bring the World to Your Classroom — WFSU and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for Florida teachers like you.
Helpful Resources & Real-World Tips
- The Rapid E-Learning Blog — Blog with practical, real-world tips for e-learning success.
- E-Learning Heroes — Active online community that offers tips, e-learning challenges, discussions, and access to templates and assets.
- Learning Solutions Magazine — Magazine with strategies, tools, technologies, services, and best practices to design, develop, implement and manage online learning programs.
- eLearning Industry — Online community or professional which offers articles, concepts, software and resources.
- eLearning Learning — Hub that collects and organizes the best posts and articles on online learning.
- The eLearning Coach — Website with actionable strategies, practical content, product reviews and resources for understanding, designing, and developing online learning.
- Action@Work — Blog with ideas for designing lively training for working adults.
Organizations
- Quality Matters — Organization that supports quality assurance.
- Online Learning Consortium — Organization that provides professional development, instruction, best practice publications and guidance to educators, online learning professionals and organizations.
- The eLearning Guild — Online community with information, networking, and resources for online learning.
- Education Advisory Board (EAB) — Organization that provides best practice research and practical advice to key academic and administrative leaders.
- The International E-learning Association — Online community of online learning professionals, researchers, and students.
- EDUCAUSE — Online community of IT leaders and professionals committed to advancing higher education.
- The Association for Talent Development — Professional membership organization supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees in organizations.
Training & Support
- LinkedIn Learning — Online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals.
- TechSmith — Online tutorials, support and community for several development products including Snagit, Camtasia, Relay, Loop, Jing, etc.
- Adobe Help Center — Online resources and support for Adobe tools and services.
Development
- eLearning Brothers — Online library of templates and assets.
- eLearning Infographics — Online library of infographics for online learning.
- eLearning Art — Online library of templates and art for online learning.
- WebAIM — Comprehensive web accessibility solutions.
- Unsplash — Online library of free, high-resolution images
- Freesound — Online library of audio snippits, samples, recording available for use under Creative Commons licenses.
- Library of Congress — Online library that offers a rich, diverse and enduring source of knowledge to inform, inspire and engage you in your intellectual endeavors.
- w3schools — Website with tutorials and support for programmers.