Online Teaching and Learning Links

Teaching With the Internet Examples of Delivery / Strategies A great site that lists a variety of different instructional techniques and points to examples of them being used on the Internet.
Uni of SA's Designing a Web for Learning - A good overview of some basic design principles that can be used when designing a web site. Integrates various authors such as Nielsen into easy to use guidelines.
Web Links for Teaching & Learning A good list of annotated links to useful teaching and learning sites.
Teaching and Learning on the Internet: Developing a resource for academic support. A paper presented by QUT at ausweb97 about their efforts to develop a The Teaching and Learning on the Internet site as an information resource for teaching staff at QUT.
Evaluating the Quality of Internet Information. Details research by the University of Georgia that developed a list of 125 indicators of website quality that may be useful in evaluating sites.
The no significant difference web site - A site that catalogues the results of media comparison studies from as early as 1930 to the present day. The overwhelming evidence is that there is no difference between the effectiveness of different media when used with the same instructional approach.

The Virtual Classes home page of the Open Training and Education Network (OTEN) based in New South Wales. A good example of an online learning environment, which uses a graphical school-yard based metaphor. The personal homepages are an effective way of building a sense of community. Julie Gibson has written a good evaluation of a trial of teaching using the Virtual Classes in a paper for Ausweb 96
Learner Support Guide for Online Learning developed by RMIT based in Victoria. A good introduction to many of the issues involved with online learning.
A Theoretical Framework for Internet-Based Training at Sydney Institute of Technology A paper presented at Ausweb97 by Greg Webb.
Creating Effective Instructional Materials for the World Wide Web A paper presented at Ausweb 96 that argues 'learning achieved through use of the WWW depends not only on the quality of the learning materials but also on the ways they are used by the learners and are implemented by the instructor.'

Framing the Future Project
Key Competencies Website

Please send us links to related sites or resources to do with online teaching and learning and we will add them to our list.