Educational Tools

• Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
"Representing a broad range of industries and companies, the Darden Case Collection provides faculty instructors, corporate trainers, and individuals with an extensive selection of educational tools. Many cases are accompanied by teaching notes, spreadsheet diskettes, videos, and CD-ROMs to intensify the classroom learning experience".

• Part of Darden's executive education e-learning series: Created to assist leaders in times of uncertainty, Darden’s Leading in Turbulent Times e-learning program is available at no cost to participants.

• Anatomy Revealed. Interactive anatomy CD from the Medical College of Ohio.

• American Memory; Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. (Part of the Library of Congress).

• Vincent Voice Library, Michigan State University
"The G. Robert Vincent Voice Library is the largest academic voice library in the nation. It is located on the fourth floor of the west wing of the MSU Library. It houses taped utterances (speeches, performances, lectures, interviews, broadcasts, etc.) by over 50,000 persons from all walks of life recorded over 100 years".

Educational Resources

• The Technology Source. A peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical published by the Michigan Virtual University. Provides "thoughtful, illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations."

• Educause. The mission of EDUCAUSE is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

• CREN'S Tech Talk. CREN's mission is to support higher education and research
organizations with strategic IT knowledge services and
communication tools.

Application Tools

• Quandry. "An application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Working through this branching tree is like negotiating a
maze, hence the name "Action Maze"."

• Macromedia: Flash, Authorware, and Director

References

• Benson, Angela, Talmadge Guy and Julie Tallman. "Viewing Online Learning through the Lens of Perspective Transformation." International Journal of Educational Telecommunications 7, (2001): 251(19). In Infotrack [database online]. Cited January 2002. Available from College of Charleston Libraries.

• Collinson, Vivienne. "Intellectual, Social, and Moral Development: Why Technology Cannot Replace Teachers." High School Journal 85, (Oct-Nov 2001): 35. In Infotrack [database online]. Cited January 2002. Available from College of Charleston Libraries.

• Cuban, Larry. Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom. Cambridge, Mass. President and Fellows of Harvard Classroom, 2001.

• Long, Phillip D. and Charles Kerns. "Open Knowledge Initiative. Do Learning Management Systems Support Good Pedagogy?"
<http://web.mit.edu/oki/>

• O'Connor, Terry. "Using Learning Styles to Adapt Technology for Higher Education."
<http://web.indstate.edu/ctl/styles/learning.html>

• Olson, Joanne K. and Michael P. Clough. "Technology's Tendency to Undermine Serious Study: A Cautionary Note." The Clearing House 75 (Sept 2001): 8. In Infotrack [database online]. Cited January 2002. Available from College of Charleston Libraries.

• Spence, Larry D. "The Case Against Teaching." Change 33 (Nov-Dec 2001): 11. In Infotrack [database online]. Cited January 2002. Available from College of Charleston Libraries.

• Stamm, Randy and Bernadette Howlette. "Effective Course Content by Design." (Jan-Feb 2002). TLS Online.
<http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/rarticles.html>