MSU Resources
Doing Online Courses
- Rutgers Basic Course Design and Pedagogy
- Cal Poly Learning-Centered Online Course Design Lit Review
- An Analysis of Organizational Approaches to Online Course Structures
- UW Online Course Resources
- Rubric for Online Instruction
- Instructional Design Tips for Online Learning
- Best Practices in Designing Online Courses
- Collection of Ideas for Teaching and Learning with Technology
- Rubric for Online Instruction
- Instructional Design Tips for Online Learning
- Best Practices in Designing Online Courses
- Collection of Ideas for Teaching and Learning with Technology
- Open University: Innovating Pedagogy 2012
- Designed For Learning Links to Reports
Camtasia, WordPress, and Piazza
- Camtasia Techniques, Tricks and Best Practices
- Camtasia Best Practices
- Techsmith: Camtasia Tutorials
- Techsmith: Recording Tips
- Video screen capture best practices
- WordPress
- 40 WordPress Tutorials (videos)
- WordPress Lessons (text)
- Piazza
- Piazza Tutorials
- Three point lighting
Sample Courses
- MSU Award Winners
- ISS 328 Culture of Soccer
- HST 202: United States History to 1876
- History 420: Sex
- History 202: American
- History 250: History in the Digital Age
- Adventures in Digital History 3.0 by Jeff McClurken (Mary Washington)
- Ancient Egyptian Archaeology
- List of Courses with Sample Syllabi (these samples are helpful)
- San Diego State University – some concrete examples of online courses
Sample Assignments
- Clark College Libraries
- Suggestions for Assignments
- History Matters – Digital Blackboard
- Illinois Online Network – Online Teaching Activity Index
- American Historical Association – History Engine: Creating a Writing Assignment for the Digital Age
Course Promos
- “Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse—Catastrophes and Human Behavior” SW 290, MSU Lifelong Education program
- “Doctor Fútbol” HST 455 & ISS 328
History Portals and Information
- Teaching History: National Education Clearing House
- Gilder Lehrman: Institue for American History
- Digital History
- History Matters
- Canadian History Mysteries
- Ithaka, “Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians”: Download