Resources and Models for What is Next/Now

Writing, Computers, & Literacy Initiative at Ball State University

Offer workshops for writing faculty to help them "integrate technology into the heart of writing instruction." Also hosted Pedagogy, Practice, and Technology of Writing: The Ball State University Institute for Teaching with Computers in August 1999.

Online Writing Center Consortium hosted by Colorado State University

Collaborative project which serves as a resource and receptor for online writing centers. The Consortium's purpose is to share, by linkings and conversations, legacy information as they work to generate new content.

A Response to Teaching at an Internet Distance: The Report of a 1998-1999 University of Illinois Faculty Seminar

Ample food for thought, with a thoughtful response from Rory McGreal and a WWWDEV conversation which followed.

Computers in Writing-Intensive Classrooms at Michigan Tech University

Two-week Summer Institute for language arts teachers who want to integrate computers into their writing-intensive courses and/or programs.

Teaching on the Internet at the University of Pretoria

Johannes Cronje's annual graduate-level education course for teachers who will be teaching virtual classes.

Interwise Training course

It's a corporate-only product, but the course this company uses to teach new trainers to use the training software is model-effective and worth a look.

Faculty Development 101 at Penn State

Penn State University's World Campus Online has created an online course that teaches their faculty to instruct in cyberspace and design online courses. The course is available for free (you must be using a public browser). The course is divided into two modules: one teaches how to author a course; the other teaches how to instruct using the technology presented.

Online Facilitation Course

It's corporate and fee-based, but it's solid and useful. Nancy White of Full Circle Associates co-teaches.

Online-Student and Online-Faculty FAQs at Franklin University

Online students at Franklin take an orientation that teaches the technology and introduces them to the social and study differences in online learning. (They use Maggie McVay's text, How to be a Successful Distance Learner: Learning on the Internet.) Faculty take a course that introduces them to the technology, the pedagogical/andragogical considerations of online teaching, and design issues. (What you'll see is the demo site.)

Moving Out of the Middle, A Facilitation Course offered by Concord Consortium

For trainers and educators, this 13-week online course is broken into "guide by the side" and "actual practice" sections. Training involves using dialoguing techniques, focusing discussion, and adopting a variety of tones and voices in online classes. (The most recent course started March 22, 2000.)

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