Faculty Resources for Online Teaching

Learning Tools

• Moodle Resources
• Moodle Dates To Remember
• CCC Confer  
  Provides e-conferencing services free of charge to all staff, faculty, and administrators in the California Community Colleges system. You can conduct meetings, live classes, office hours, and group discussions remotely, using document sharing, telephone conferencing, chat, and other technologies.
  CCC Confer uses Elluminate Live! software for its conferencing services. Learn more about it at:
  • Elluminate Live! Resources
  Note: Moodle has a module that integrates Elluminate Live. Click on Add Blocks on your homepage and select Elluminate Live!.
• EduStream  
  EduStream provides access to captioned, ADA-compliant educational videos, which you can link to from Moodle. It also provides free use of its streaming servers for instructional audio or video files that you have created.
  
  • EduStream User Manual (pdf)
  Contact your Instructional Technologist for access to EduStream.

Instructional Design Resources

• Universal Design for Learning (UDL) — Flexible Course Design for Diverse Learners
  UDL provides excellent guidelines for designing learning and developing materials for both online and face-to-face classes.
• MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) - A collection of peer-reviewed online learning materials for higher education
• Rubric for Online Instruction (California State University Chico)
  This comprehensive rubric consists of six categories:
  1. Learner Support & Resources
  2. Online Organization & Design
  3. Instructional Design & Delivery
  4. Assessment & Evaluation of Student Learning
  5. Innovative Teaching with Technology
  6. Faculty Use of Student Feedback
• Instructional Design Tips for Online Instruction (pdf) - Provides an instructional design checklist, organized according to the categories of the Rubric for Online Instruction.
• Selected Online Learning Articles