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
- 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 — Stress getting to you? Try some of these tips from the Mayo Clinic for stress relief.
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 and enduring source of knowledge to inform, inspire and engage you in your intellectual endeavors.
- w3schools — Website with tutorials and support for programmers.
