Adjunct Faculty

Distance Education Resource Links
Selected resources from a comprehensive compilation,
with annotations, from The Distance Education Report.

Distance Teaching and General Content:

Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) Web
ALN Web is a resource-sharing site for online courses. It includes free workshops, the online ALN Magazine and Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN). Vanderbilt University created and manages the site with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
www.aln.org

MERLOT
MERLOT, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, is a free and open resource for higher education faculty and students that includes a collection of online learning materials, assignments, and reviews. This site can be searched by keyword or browsed by subject area. It also has discipline communities, which provide recent news and events and features relevant to specific disciplines.
http://merlot.cdl.edu/Home.po

AskERIC Home Page
ERIC is the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally-funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, and associated adjunct clearinghouses, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues. AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, and parents.

AskERIC includes:
Questions & Answer Service (submit education question to AskERIC Q&A, and receive a personal e-mail response within two business days.
Resource Collection (compilation of over 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues)
Lesson Plans (more than 2000 lesson plans written and submitted by teachers)
ERIC Database (more than 1 million abstracts re. education research and practice)
Mailing Lists (25+eduction-related discussion groups.
http://ericir.sunsite.syr.edu/

PBS Teacher Source
Maintained by the Public Broadcasting System, this site provides more than 1,400 lesson plans based on PBS television programs for preschool through adult learners.
www.pbs.org/teachersource

The World Lecture Hall
This University of Texas site publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide, who are using the Web to deliver course materials that can be visited by anyone interested in courseware on the Internet. Contains course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc.
www.utexas.edu/world/lecture

Lecturesonline.org
This site provides a place to preview, examine, and download digital course content, such as PowerPoint lectures, demonstrations, figures, charts, graphs, and HTML pages.
www.lecturesonline.org/index.htm

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts. The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.
www.loc.gov/

The Online Books Page
This site has over 13,000 books online arranged by subject, author and title. It has a page that lists new additions to the collection and a link to relevant library and copyright news.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books

Online Copyright Law:

The Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act
From the ALA (American Library Association) Web site, prepared for ALA by Kenneth D. Crews: "On November 2nd, 2002, the "Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act" (the TEACH Act), part of the larger Justice Reauthorization legislation (H.R. 2215),was signed into law by President Bush. Long anticipated by educators and librarians, TEACH redefines the terms and conditions on which accredited, nonprofit educational institutions throughout the U.S. may use copyright protected materials in distance education – including on websites and by other digital means – without permission from the copyright owner and without payment of royalties."

Arts and Humanities:

History Online
History Online is an online portal for historians, offering access to a range of digital historical resources published by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. There are currently nineteen primary and secondary history collections available through History Online, including rare British, American and World history sources.
http://historyonline.chadwyck.co.uk/info/home.htm

Edsitement
From the National Endowment for the Humanities - includes a compendium of the top humanities-related Web sites. The site is designed to help educators who teach English, history, literature, art history, and foreign languages. From the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world’s great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/

KAIROS: Online Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments
Kairos is an electronic journal designed to serve as a peer-reviewed resource for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing at the college and university level, including Technical Writing, Business Writings, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature.
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/

Essentials of Music
A site for basic information about classical music. Created in cooperation with W.W. Norton & Company, it’s built around Essential Classics, the series specially designed as an introduction to the best music of every period. The site features some 200 excerpts from essential classics, with overviews of the six main periods in music history – Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century. There are brief biographies of nearly 70 composers, which will bring to life the artists and their works; and a glossary of 200 definitions with numerous musical examples.
www.essentialsofmusic.com/

Art and History Resources on the Web
This site was selected as Forbes Best of the Web 2002 pick, and a Best of History website. It is a "ridiculously comprehensive" guide to art and culture resources on the Web. A "chronological catalog of cultural output that displays extraordinary breadth." Click on any art-historical era or subject, and you will generally find a large quantity of links to recent research and articles on topics ranging from the Neolithic trib of Ain Ghazal to the Mesopotamian kingdom of Persepolis to the Mysterious Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan. The site is regularly updated, and its directories of image banks and museums are very good.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Religion/Philosophy:

Digitized Collection of Religious Documents
A guide to digitized religious materials in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library of Duke University. The holdings are chiefly in the Christian and Jewish traditions.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/pathfinders/religious/

Philosophy Text Collection
From Plato’s Republic to Bentham’s Principles of Morals, to the Tao Te Ching: classic philosophical texts available in HTML, text, and RTF formats. Unaltered copies may be freely distributed for personal and classroom use.
www.utm.edu/research/iep/philtext.htm

The Internet Sacred Text Archive
The Internet Sacred Text Archive is a free non-profit archive of electronic texts about religionk mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language.
www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm