This list contains general information resource sites about teaching and learning online, rather than specific course development or design or content resource sites. You'll find something here for you whether you're just beginning to prepare yourself for teaching online, or you're experienced and looking for new resources to help and inspire.

TED.com: "Our mission: Spreading ideas." Just discovered this (free subscription) site, and wow! "TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader....The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted." Check out TED's theme site for How We Learn: "Teachers of all kinds can find fresh resources--and inspiration--in this batch of TEDTalks. Some talks may shake your worldview...others celebrate the extraordinary power of teachers and schools--and share ways you can help them. Look here for pointers to amazing classroom tools and techniques." 09/22/08

SmartTeaching.org: "...a leading online resource for current teachers, and aspiring education students and student teachers." My title link is to their library of Teaching Resources & Articles. Most of those are about teacher training and teaching career resources. But also check out their blog, chock full of tips-n-tricks, tutorials, and more. For example, here's a list of titles in the August/08 archives (so far):

• 100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques
• 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers
• 100+ Motivational Techniques to Take Learning to the Next Level
• 101 Ways to Cope with Teaching Stress
• 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom

And for you Blackboard users: The Ultimate Guide to BlackBoard: 100 Tips & Tutorials
08/13/08

Performance Learning Systems: "The mission of Performance Learning Systems, Inc. is to enhance education through the development of educational services. These services, designed to increase the effectiveness of educators and others who support excellence in education, include: seminars, Graduate courses, Consulting services, Quality instructional materials." (My link is to the teacher resources section of the website, but please explore their many professional development courses too.) 02/15/08

Society for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education: STLHE "...is a national association of academics interested in the improvement of teaching and learning in higher education. Its members comprise faculty and teaching and learning resource professionals from institutions of post-secondary educaiton across Canada and beyond." 06/08/07

Free Online Educational Resources: Annotated links to various types of resources, including locations of courses & online institutions, podcasts on education topics, articles, lessons and more. 03/05/06

Professional Development LIBRARY: RETC E-Library (Regional Educational Technology Center at Fordham University). "RETC E-Library is a rich mixed-media resource of a growing number of high quality professional development resources including:
* podcasts for Teachers
* videos
* webinars
* community dedicated Podcast for Teachers bulletin board
* books and articles
* curriculum ideas From Teachers (aka Podcasts from Teachers)" 11/16/05

SCoPE: A brand new site this month. Out of SFU, Vancouver, BC, this is a multi-featured forum that "...brings together individuals who share an interest in education research and practice. Membership is free and open to everyone." 10/31/05

Online Education Resources: From the Illinois Online Network, a categorized site rich with resources "dealing with various aspects of online education and the online environment in general. ION has been developing these resources since the mid 1990's... This is not a comprehensive search engine of links to online education information but rather a comprehensive collection of documents produced by ION along with some selected outside links when they are found to be exemplary to the information needed (especially in IP and Online Ed Info sections)." 10/23/05

BC Learning Marketplace & Expo: A new K-12 online community sponsored and run by BC Campus. I encourage you to visit, look around, become a member (it's free and easy), sign up for the email weekly activity updates. They have some excellent webcasts, discussion forums, and here's something fun -- there are online meeting rooms and virtual offices that you can use with your colleagues any time. Please check it out! 03/26/05

The WWC -- What Works In Education? "The What Works Clearinghouse was established ... to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education. The WWC aims to promote informed education decision making through a set of easily accessible databases and user-friendly reports that provide education consumers with ongoing, high-quality reviews of the effectiveness of replicable educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies) that intend to improve student outcomes." 01/18/05

The eLearning Guild: "...a member-driven Community of Practice where e-Learning designers, developers and managers can focus on their professional development, enhance their peer network, and identify resources for ensuring that their organizations e-Learning projects are more successful." Their "Associate" membership is free and gives you access to "the e-Learning industry's most comprehensive knowledge-base of Resources", organized into very helpful categories. 09/03/04

Online Resources: A big list of excellent links, clearly labelled but uncommented. Quick to glance through. 06/11/04

Education Matters ~ Insights on Education, Learning & Training in Canada: "Today, Statistics Canada launches this new, free, online [bimonthly] publication.... which is a source of summary information on issues relating to education, training and learning, as well as a key point of access to data and analytical output relating to education. Each edition will contain two articles, which explore a range of issues relating to education and learning, and which summarize findings reported in research papers and provide links to those papers. ...provides summary information on issues and gives access to education indicators and Canadian education analysis. It presents information, statistics and analysis in a non-technical, highly readable format for teachers, students, parents, education associations, researchers and policy makers. ...Subscribe to our free email news service tp receive automatic notification when new issues become available, advance notices of updates to education data and indicators, announcements of new analytical reports and other information for stakeholders in the education sector." 05/07/04

At the same site, a Free subscription to The Daily, which "offers unparalleled access to newly released data, schedules of major releases and announcements of new products and services. Subscribe and receive a free electronic copy delivered to your e-mail every working day." 05/07/04

FuturEd™ Consulting Education Futurists Inc. A consulting firm based in Vancouver, Canada. Provides a wide variety of products and services related to all aspects of education and training. Check out their excellent and growing online library of materials and information on eLearning and eTraining. 10/28/03

EduTools: "a web-based resource for the higher education community". Sections in the site include: student services, e-learning policies, instructional technologies, and an extensive comparison of course management systems. 09/07/02

Interactivity for Web based Education: Can't really classify this site, but it's full of resources for math, physics and more. Includes: Sail Calculator | testConst | testMakPro | testMakPro2 | testAssist | MulMakPro | Author_Author | Script Editor | hTmLiT | Free testMakers | Definition Engine | Puzzle A Week | Free Calculators | Other Free Stuff. 07/25/02

Instructional Resources: Raritan Valley Community College has a site of links with similar topics to this PinkFlamingo site. 06/11/02

Online Education Resources: another links site like my own, from Illinois Online Network. 06/11/02

The AECT Project: Teaching the Teachers: (The Association for Educational Communications & Technology) This project is aimed at a campaign for the effective use of technology in education, and directed at teacher training institutions. Also great for teachers already in the field. Their site includes a "Goal/Strategy" browser, an "Educational Technology Advisor", tutorials by the dozens, etc. Very useful material! 12/18/01

Edutech Resources Site: "An annotated list of pointers to other resources on new information technologies and teaching." 12/12/01

The Teacher Tap: "A free professional development resource that helps educators address common technology integration questions by providing practical, online resources and activities." 11/18/01

EdNA Online (Education Network Australia): "Australia's Gateway to resources and services for education and training." "EdNA Online provides two key functions: a directory about education and training in Australia; a database of Web-based resources useful for teaching and learning." 09/23/01

Educause: "The mission of EDUCAUSE is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology." 08/27/01

Effective Practices database: Educause (Transforming Education Through Information Technologies) has recently announced this member-driven resource. "Have you implemented an effective practice related to managing or using information technology on your campus or used technology effectively to solve a problem? Or are you looking for a solution to an IT-related challenge and wondering how your colleagues are addressing the same challenge?" Check it out; it's well indexed by category. 07/09/01