Resources for Faculty - Distance Learning

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Course Design

Online Course Design Help

Useful Information

• Part-Time Faculty Information
• Faculty and Staff Information
• Montana Tech Faculty Handbook [PDF]
• Montana Tech Student Handbook [PDF]
• Online Teaching Instructions/Computer Support and Tutorials (TECH SUPPORT) [External site]
• Free Online Tutoring for Tech Students [External site]
• Learn about Basic Computer Terminology [External site]

Moodle Orientation Course for Faculty

A Moodle Orientation course is available in your list of courses after logging into MyMtech [External site]. The course is called, “Online Teaching”. Once inside that course, you can click on “How to Use Moodle”.

Faculty Focus Special Reports

• "Promoting Academic Integrity in Online Education" [External site]
• "11 Strategies for Getting Students to Read What's Assigned" [External site]
• "Online Course Design: 13 Strategies for Teaching in a Web-based Distance Learning Environment" [External site]

Open Textbooks

• California Affordable Learning Solution [External site]
• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) [External site]
• Flat World Knowledge [External site]
• Open Textbook Library [External site]
• OpenStax (formerly Connexions) [External site]

Recordings of Tech Faculty Teaching Faculty Series

• Tips for New Online Instructors [External site]
  by Gordy Flanders
• More Efficient and Fair Grading Using the Quiz Feature in Moodle [External site]
  by Julie Hart

OER – Open Educational Resources

• MIT OpenCourseWare [External site]
• MITx [External site]
• edX  [External site]
• OpenStax  [External site]
• Curriki [External site]
• OER Commons [External site]
• Open Education Global [External site]
• The Encyclopedia of Life [External site]
• Online Education Database [External site]
• TED Talks [External site]

• Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative [External site]
• John Hopkins School of Public Health OpenCourseWare [External site]
• Open Yale Courses [External site]
• Standard Engineering Everywhere [External site]
• Khan Academy [External site]
• Public Library of Science [External site]
• The Open University [External site]

Digital Repositories

• Merlot [External site]

• Hippocampus [External site]