Faculty Resources

Center for Instructional Technology (Drinko 435)
The CIT staff assists faculty with online course development and delivery, and in the application of technology to all forms of online and multimedia instruction.
Phone: x7121

Faculty Resource Center (CB 211)
The Faculty Resource Center has a team of student instructional designers ready and eager to help faculty with their online, course supplement, and multimedia needs. If you have a course site, a multimedia project idea, or any other website development work you would like help with, come talk with us.
Where: CB 211 | Phone: x7117 | M-F, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Support
We offer a wide array of support services available to you at your convenience.
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Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
These seven principles, updated over time, are based on many years of research on good teaching principles. They apply to teaching and learning in the classroom or online.

Vista 101 Sample Course for Faculty
Take a look at our sample course for faculty.

Sample Syllabus
View and print a generic, online course syllabus

Principles of Online Design (Florida Gulf Coast U.)
Online Learning Support Centers in Higher Education
Sloan Consortium Effective Practices in Online Education
Teaching Strategies with WebCT Vista (Flinders U., Australia)
Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning (Indian U.)
Teaching on the Web (Dartmouth C.)
Resources for Teaching Online (WebCT corporate site)
Exemplary Courses (WebCT corporate site)

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Darwin Centre Live: Videos on science topics

NY Public Library Digital Gallery: prints, maps, posters, etc.

ArtStor: (off-campus login) a collection of hundreds of thousands of images owned by Marshall University and available for use in your online courses
 

Rethink your testing strategy. Approach quizzes/exams as "open book," or base the major part of the final grade on other criteria such as written assignments or projects.

• Release questions one at a time without the ability to revisit a question.
• Set a time limit on the quiz/exam.
• Use the “question set” feature to deliver random questions from the database so that at least the order is different for each student.
• Increase your question database and use the “question set" feature to randomize your quizzes so the odds that even printing will not lead to cheating because each student will get a different set of questions, not just a different order.

Use Turnitin.com
Marshall University subscribes to this service which reviews your students’ papers for "textual matches" with Internet materials and thousands of student papers in its database, and returns an "originality report" to instructors.
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For more information about copyright see Copyright Basics and "Fair Use" Guidelines.

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When you create online courses, multimedia, or other materials for distance learning, some issues you should consider are: who owns the work, who has the right to make what use of it in the future, what resources will Marshall University provide to you for the work, who has the right to make or be responsible for updates, if your work has commercial potential, who should take the lead in marketing and licensing it and how should the profits be shared. PB 13 addresses these issues and more.

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Disabled Students Services
For accessibility issues and concerns please contact the Disabled Students Services office.

Off-Campus Library Services
The Marshall University Libraries provide extensive services for students who are distance learners or have nontraditional library needs.

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Delivering Learning on the Net: the why, what & how of online education
by Martin Weller
Kogan Page Ltd; ISBN: 0749436751

E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online (Open and Distance Learning Series)
by Gilly Salmon
Kogan Page Ltd; ISBN: 0749431105

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