Course Design and Development

go to top of pageTheories and Philosophies

Site Info
http://tip.psychology.org/ Theory into Practice - Learning theories
http://tip.psychology.org/taxonomy.html Bloom's taxonomy

go to top of pageHigh Level Design Methods and Principles

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http://www.nwlink.com/~Donclark/hrd/learning/development.html Five theories for developing instruction
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/landt/lt/docs/atid.htm Instructional Design - Robert Gagné, The Conditions of Learning

go to top of pageUsability and Accessibility

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http://www.useit.com Jakob Nielsen's Usability Website
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020512.html Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability
http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/accessibleinformation/Pages/accessible_information.aspx RNIB guidelines
http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/about-dyslexia/further-information/dyslexia-style-guide.html British Dyslexia Association site
http://www.mencap.org.uk/page.asp?id=1539 Mencap guidelines
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag Web content accessibility guidelines
http://www.open.ac.uk/inclusiveteaching/pages/inclusive-teaching/index.php OU guidelines
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/accessibility/ BBC standards
http://www.universaldesign.ie/useandapply/ict Universal design

http://www.freedomscientific.com/support.asp

http://www.freedomscientific.com/training/e-LearningEntrance.asp

JAWS - screen reader information
http://www.techdis.ac.uk/ Techdis
   

go to top of pageValidation of Web Materials

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http://validator.w3.org:80/ HTML validation
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ CSS validation
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/accessibility/assistance/ Accessibility validation - download free tool - very easy to use
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/ Accessibility validation tools - list to choose from

go to top of pageMethods

Site Info
http://www.epsscentral.info/ EPSScentral.INFO is a set of free resources on the many disciplines that comprise performance centered design including EPSS

go to top of pageTools

Site Info
http://www.enterprisestudy.com/default.aspx Training Administration
http://www.trimeritus.com/vendors.pdf

Vendors of Learning Management and e-Learning products

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/25Tools/index.html 25 tools
   

go to top of pageVirtual Learning Environments/Learning Management Systems

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http://moodle.org/ Moodle
http://www.saba.com/index.htm

SABA

 
 

go to top of pageCourseware

Site Info
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm MIT open courseware
http://schools.becta.org.uk/ Becta

go to top of pageStandards

Site Info
http://ieeeltsc.org/ IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee

go to top of page Evaluation

Site Info
Find something Kirkpatrick

go to top of pageQuality Control

Site Info
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso9000-14000/iso9000/qmp.html ISO 9000

go to top of pageIdeas

Site Info
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/ Adobe showcase
http://www.thefwa.com/ site of the day
http://www.behance.net Behance network
http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com Fuel your creativity
http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/index.html Learning Light - loads of examples and info
   

go to top of pageGeneral Reference - Academic

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http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/ JISC - CETIS - Centre for educational technology and interoperability standards
http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/1  Commonwealth of learning
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ search for acedemic papers
http://scholar.google.co.uk/schhp?hl=en&as_sdt=2000&as_vis=1 Search for acedemic papers

go to top of pageGeneral Reference - "Thought leaders"

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http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/jane.html Jane Hart
http://internettime.pbworks.com/ Jay Cross
http://www.jarche.com/ Harold Jarche
http://lasher.co.uk/ Neil Lasher
http://charles-jennings.blogspot.com/ Charles Jennings
http://www.masieweb.com/the-learning-consortium.html Elliot Masie

go to top of pageGeneral Reference - Commercial

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http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/ Training Zone
http://www.learningcircuits.org/ Learning Circuits
http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.9185&PHPSESSID=755a58872b6732624cd481f530072c18 Learning Technology

http://www.elearningnetwork.org/

http://news.elearningnetwork.org/feeds/

Elearning network
http://c4lpt.co.uk/index.html Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
http://www.kineo.com/elearning-tips.html eLearning tips

 

go to top of page Glossaries

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http://www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus/glossary.aspx Joint Information Systems Committee's glossary.
http://www.learnativity.com/acronyms.html Learning Standards Acronyms
http://www.e-learningguru.com/gloss.htm