Distance Education
Faculty Resources
Professional Development Opportunities
- SOU Distance Education Workshop Schedule
- NCLC Certificate in Emerging Technologies and Practices in Online Teaching
- The Distance Education Clearinghouse Conference Database
Professional Organizations
(SOU maintains institution memberships with the following organizations.)
- EDUCAUSE
- New Century Learning Consortium
- Sloan Consortium
- WCET-Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
Online Course Development and Delivery
- Best Practices in Online Course Design and Delivery (Southern Oregon University)
- Books Available in the SOU Distance Education Center
- Facilitating Online Discussions
- Online Teaching Activity Index (Illionois Online Network)
- Rubric for Online Instruction (California State University, Chico)
- Specific Activites that Promote Online Discussion (Illinois Online Network)
- Strategies for Teaching at a Distance (University of Idaho Engineering Outreach)
Multimedia Collections
- Gateway for Educational Materials (GEM)
- INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resources Collections
- Interactivate Math Tools
- MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching)
- MIT Open Courseware
- National Science Digital Library
- New York Times Video Library
- OAIster...find the pearls
- Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons
- Open Learn (Open University)
- Open Vault (Public Television Programs)
