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 link]
• Free Online Tutoring for Tech Students [external link]
• Learn about Basic Computer Terminology [external link]

Moodle Orientation Course for Faculty

A Moodle Orientation course is available in your list of courses after logging into MyMtech [external link]. 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 link]
• "11 Strategies for Getting Students to Read What's Assigned" [external link]
• "Online Course Design: 13 Strategies for Teaching in a Web-based Distance Learning Environment" [external link]

Open Textbooks

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

Recordings of Tech Faculty Teaching Faculty Series

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

OER – Open Educational Resources

Digital Repositories

• Merlot [external link]

• Hippocampus [external link]

eLearning Technology Center — Health Science Building 008

Contact Kathy Stevens to reserve room.
Office: 406-496-4837 
Cell: 406-491-2410
Email: kstevens@mtech.edu