Reference - Education - Instructional Technology

Reference - Education - Instructional Technology

Educational Technology and Society - Educational Technology and Society journal seeks articles relevant to educators and educational systems developers. It is a refereed online journal of IEEE Learning Technology Task Force and IFETS.
LT Report - A semi-annual electronic newsletter for instructors who are interested in issues related to technology-assisted learning.
Syllabus Magazine - Technology magazine for high schools, colleges, and universities.
Educational Uses of Networks - Collection of guidelines for using electronic communication in the classroom.
Yenza! - Using the Internet for research and teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
InTRO - Instructional Technology Research Online; includes a document repository, interviews, links, and a "who's who in instructional technology" section.
SyllabusWeb - Information on technology and education, from Syllabus Press.
The Wired Professor - Companion web site to a book about technology in college education.
The Epiphany Project - Provided strategies and support to assist mainstream writing faculty with integrating technology into their classroom.
Education Technology Information Resources - Directory of instructional technology sites.
Study Aids for Visual Learners - In addition to a graphic organizer for online course development, there are visual outlines of learning theory and links to products and workshops for advanced learning.
Edutech: Higher Education and New Technologies - Community and resources for learning technologies in higher education, especially at Swiss universities.
Educational Technology - Higher Education Links for educational technology: journals and newsletters, associations, consortia and networks
The Moderator's HomePage - Set of resources for moderators of online discussion in both academic and non-academic settings.
EDUCAUSE Online Guide to Evaluating Information Technology on Campus - What to ask about information technology when choosing a college or university.
The Costs Project Cost of Supporting Technology The COSTS Project (Cost of Supporting Technology Services) - Participants in the COSTS project submit data on technology spending for their schools and then receive comparative data from the entire COSTS database. Participation is free to schools who submit their data. Only schools that participate receive the detailed data and the full analyses. How to participate, history, participating schools, and presentations and articles.
Students Perceptions of Technology in Learning - Presentation of survey results by Scott Siddall of Denison University.
Students Perceptions of Distance Learning, Online Learning and the Traditional Classroom - Results of a study done at a medium sized state university which finds that distance learning and on-line learning technologies are perceived by students as having some benefits although they are not necessarily knowledge-related. related.
Using Spreadsheets to Keep Track of Students' Grades - Brief introduction to using Excel and other spreadsheets for managing students' grades and performing basic statistics.
FAST (Free Assessment Summary Tool) - Web-based assessment tool that allows students to anonymously submit feedback about their course and/or instructor.
Webdevshare 2002 - Annual conference emphasizes sharing real-world solutions to real-world situations in e-commerce, Web portals, legacy data, usability, accessibility, and self-service applications in higher education. Indiana University Bloomington, October 6-10, 2002. Also find news about past conferences, mailing lists, and contact information
EDUCAUSE in Australasia 2003 - Conference theme is 'Expanding the Learning Community - Meeting the Challenges.' Information technology offers the potential for greatly expanding learning communities in all sectors. University of Adelaide, Australia, May 6-9, 2003.
The Electronic Scholar - This site is devoted to the use of high tech tools, such as streaming video, to study expert practice in teaching and to generate and disseminate scholarship.
Columbia University - Center for new media teaching and learning.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Center For Instructional Technology.
Iowa State University - Instructional Technology Center.
Florida Instructional Technology Resource Center
University of Delaware - Practical Resources for Educators Seeking Effective New Technologies (PRESENT).
University of Oregon - ARTT: Academic Resources for Teaching with Technology
Instructional Technology Support Centers - This page provides links to campus units that provide instructional technology support services at colleges and universities worldwide.
University of Hawaii - LEI Aloha, Educational Technology center.
Youngstown State University - Center for Teaching and Learning Technology Center.
Stanford University - Stanford Learning Lab.
University of California, Berkeley Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center - Teaching strategies, educational technology toolbox, and related resources
Queen's University - Queen's-Bell Instructional Technology Update. Free service assisting educators new to technology in finding meaningful and productive ways of using information technology to promote learning.
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point - Instructional Technology and Multimedia.
New Chalk - newsletter featuring instructors' use of networked technology.
Information Technology - Information technology news and resources section of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Technology Source - Journal focussed on assisting educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations.
Interactions - Electronic journal of the Educational Technology Service at the University of Warwick on teaching and learning technology methods, media, support and innovation.
Kairos - Journal for teachers of writing in webbed environments.
Preparing Faculty for Instructional Technology - From Education to Development to Creative Independence, by Karen L. Smith. [CAUSE/EFFECT]
Supporting Faculty Exploration of Teaching with Technology - Overview of PRESENT at the University of Delaware, by Janet R. de Vry and Paul Hyde [CAUSE/EFFECT].
Moderating Online Electronic Discussion Groups - Mauri P. Collins Zane and L. Berge [AERA].
Active Learning - Refereed journal for the UK Higher Education community dealing with learning technologies.
MUDs in Education: New Environments, New Pedagogies - by Tari Lin Fanderclai [CMC]
MUDS, MOO, etc., for Education - Collection of links regarding MUDs in education.
AussieMOO - The first Australian MOO, catering to social and educational needs of tertiary students.
Learning Communities MOO - This venture oversees collaborative research and development (R&D) projects, including online communities, education, and extension.
Electronic Learning Communities - Research group (founded by Amy Bruckman of MIT's MediaMOO) in the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing dedicated to MOOs and other Internet communities. Site has information on current projects and archive of research papers and proposals.
Lost Library of MOO - An extensive compilation of links to MOO resources, tutorials, and research papers (some locally hosted).
LinguaMOO - An educational MOO hosted by the University of Texas at Dallas. Virtual home of trAce online writing community, the Electronic Literature Organization, and the journal Kairos. Site also contains an archive of MOO resources and a freely downloadable MOO core, the enCore Xpress.
TopClass - Web-based training authoring, delivery and management. The authoring environment is entirely Web based.
WebCT - Web Course Tools - WBT authoring, delivery and management. Reseller of web "courselets". Authoring environment is entirely Web based.
Blackboard.com - Commercial course website software; can also create a free course on their site.
CyberProf - Collection of tools to create and manage online courses.
e-Education Online Course Manager - e-Education is a full-featured online course manager developed at Jones International University (JonesKnowledge.com).
IntraKal - Web based course environment featuring communication, online grading, student tracking, content delivery etc.
Convene Learning Platform - Learning management system (in ASP) aimed at online training.
BSCW - (Basic Support for Cooperative Work) is a web based collaboration / groupware environment. It is a shared workspace system and supports document upload, event notification, group management etc. The server soft is freeware.
Generation21 Learning Systems - Generation21 Learning Systems is an open architecture, open standard learning environment. The clients are web-based.
Lotus LearningSpace - Web course authoring, delivery and management environment from IBM.
Virtual-U - a customizable virtual campus for distributed learning. It is entirely web based and supports multiple languages.
Open Knowledge Initiative - A new Learning Management System being designed by a consortium of universities and organisations that includes MIT, Stanford and Harvard.
eCollege.com - Makers of eCourse, a course website toolkit, a smaller version called eToolkit (available for free), and eCollege Campus.
The Manhattan Virtual Classroom - An open source web-based virtual classroom system (written in C) that includes modules for discussion, chat, syllabus, handouts, assignments, grades, and private email.
ILIAS open source - english website - ILIAS is an open source LMS for Web-based training in higher education. The system consists of an authoring tool for creating courses, personal desktops, mail/forum systems, group system and administration.
Fle3 Learning Environment - Fle3 is an open-source web-based learning environment for computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL).
Knowledge Environment for Web-based Learning - KEWL is an Open Source learning management system for the Microsoft Windows platform. It's easy to use and free, with many features. KEWL is under active development.
Moodle - A free, open-source PHP web application for producing modular internet-based courses that support a modern social constructionist pedagogy. Easy to install, use and maintain on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
Prometheus - Web-based software that enables universities and colleges to put entire courses online securely.
Knowledge Forum - allows users to create a knowledge-building community. Each community creates their own database in which they can store notes and connect ideas. It features a web client or alternatively clients for Mac and Win platforms.
ARIADNE Project - Joint european academic consortium. Offers WBT authoring, delivery and management tools. Foundation members have free access to a huge database of reusable course modules.
Janison Toolbox - Commercial course website package of individual components, designed for the Microsoft Windows platform.
dotLRN - dotLRN is an open source e-learning system developed at MIT, based on AOLserver and OpenACS.
ATutor - An open-source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind.
Comparison of Online Course Delivery Software Products - The comparisons are categorized by: Developmental Features, Instructor Tools, Instructional Features, Student Tools, Technical Support, Administrator Tools, Administrative Features, Software Costs, and Hardware Costs.
Course Management Systems (CMS) - This report contains more than 20 short reviews of various course management systems.
Edutech: Evaluation of WBT Tools - Detailed comparison of about a dozen of WBT platforms which are potentially useful in higher education.
Teaching and Learning with Web Course Management Systems - A Case Study at Xavier University of Louisiana
Edutools - Course Management Systems - EduTools is a resource for higher education that is designed to assist users in making a decision about their course management system. This site reviews each product by researching and describing more than 50 product features.
Higher Education Benchmarking Consortium - The online resource for higher ed administrators interested in benchmarking surveys, knowledge sharing, and best practices.
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group - Affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education; its mission is to motivate and enable institutions and individuals to improve teaching and learning with technology.
Instructional Technology Resources - Resource page from the University of Maryland's aITs.
Faculty Connection - A resource for post-secondary faculty to bring technology into the classroom.
Teaching with Electronic Technology - Resource directory for uses for computing and electronic technology in teaching.
Who's Who In Instructional Technology - Gallery of experts from the world of instructional / educational technology and its related fields.
Classtalk - Interactive teaching tool from Better Education, Inc. to facilitate active learning. Provides networked science classroom, teacher's computer and students' calculators.
AACE - Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Office of Learning Technologies (Canada) - Assist adult learners to gain the knowledge and skills needed to meet the demands of an information and knowledge-based economy.
Learning Technology Task Force - A task force of the IEEE Computer Society dealing with technology in education.
Welcome to the World Bank Institute - WBI is part of the World Bank Group. Site includes reports from both their Distance Learning and their Evaluation Units.
International Forum of Educational Technology and Society - IFETS aims to provide common platform for educational systems developers and educators who implement and manage such systems.
The Association For Educational Communications&Technology - The mission of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology is to provide leadership in educational communications and technology by linking professionals holding a common interest in the use of educational technology and its application to the learning process.
American Evaluation Association - An international organization devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory - NCREL covers Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin and concentrates their activity on educational applications of technology to improve learning. Site includes research, evaluation, and assessment resources.
BECTA - British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - Government agency promoting the use of information and communications technology; site includes news, projects and resources on lifelong and special education.
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory - Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory serves the Northwest states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Site includes assessment and program evaluation resources.
The Sapio Institute - An independent, private, non-profit research and professional development institution that studies and evaluates effects and effectiveness of interactive learning.
EvNet: The Network for the Evaluation of Education and Training Technologies; research and evaluation into educational technologies for universities, colleges, schools, and workplaces - How to evaluate distance education, online learning, computer-mediated education,. Also, assessment and research.
Welcome to WestEd - WestEd is the regional education laboratory for Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah. Site includes information on their work in "Technology in Education" and in "Evaluation Research."
Educators Website for Information Technology (EWIT) - A community of educators and business leaders that supports the innovative use of IT skills and academic standards to enhance learning and to develop IT skills for work.
Comprehension, Coherence and Strategies in Hypertext and Linear Text - By Peter W. Foltz. The features in hypertext supply flexibility to the reader when compared to reading linear text such as books. The concept of using the associative paths in hypertext to retrieve and read information has caused great excitement.
Network Learning Environments and Hypertext - By Michael J. Jacobson and James A. Levinas. Researchers and educators begin to consider the more widespread utilization of network-mediated resources, the very richness of these resources imposes special logistical and cognitive demands on the user that may unfortunately mitigate the learning promise of educational network use.
Center For Technology Innovations in Education - CTIE is a research and development center at the University of Missouri dedicated to the reform of teaching and learning methods at all education levels through the innovative application of technology.
Classroom Connect - Learning Resources for K-12 Educators and Their Students
EDTECH - Information page for the largest electronic mailing list devoted to technology in education.
Tech: Making The Grade - Online exhibit by the National Education Association on using today's technology to link schools to the outside world and making the business of schooling more efficient
Education Gateway - Database of sites searchable by grade and subject area for curriculum materials, ideas, homework help, lesson plans, projects, and resources for gifted and talented students. Also includes some of the success stories of those who have integrated technology into the classroom, as well as professional development resources.
Center for Innovative Learning Technologies Knowledge Network (CILTKN) - CILTKN is an online resource for, by, and about the learning technology research and development community, including people, research papers, course syllabi, projects, and classified listings.
EdCITE - A database of research and case studies on the effective use of technology in education.
Technologies for Education - Collection of Links.
The Node Learning Technologies Network - Promotes effective uses of technologies in education and training. Online resources, electronic forums, publications, workshops, research and consulting services.
Web Impact on Teachers and Pedagogy - A summary of papers and research by Rodolfo Vega on the impact of the Web on pedagogy and teachers' education.
The Center for the Study of Technology and Society - Education - How technology fits in - and changes - the classroom. The Center is a nonprofit research and educational group based in Washington, D.C.
Microsoft in Education - Links to resources and partners available to help both schools (K-12) and higher education.
The "Hole in the Wall" - NIIT's experiments with Minimally Invasive Education, which show that educationally-deprived children can learn technology.
ISOC - Interactive Socrates Projects Database - Projects supported by the Socrates program for international cooperation in education and research. Projects are categorized according to target group, theme, subject etc. Focus on new technology in learning and distance education.
Adobe in Education: Resources for Educators and Students - Tips and tricks, online tutorials, discussion forums, and resources.
Apple Instructional Technology - Contains information about educational technology research, reports, funding, as well as links to other websites.
Sara Jalali: Multimedia Producer - Consultant for educational software, web-based training, and multimedia. Site also has her professional and personal links.
Role Play Simulation for Teaching and Learning - This site presents a collection of papers on the theories and applications of role play simulation for teaching and learning. There are links to other educational simulation references and to a bibliography of related articles.
Learning Solutions Group - A team of instructional development experts create customized, needs-based training material to improve employee knowledge, skills, and performance.
A Complete Manual of Videotaping and Editing Techniques - A manual written for beginning videographers, parents and educators which includes discussions on equipment, videotaping situations, scripting, and other related topics.
Pencil Box - In addition to providing technology presentations/workshops and design and evaluation services, this site offer links to lesson plans, templates, rubrics, and WebQuest resources.
De Wilde CBT N.V. - Web Based Language Learning - In addition to retail and freeware versions of language learning modules with exercises and results viewer, this site allows importation of electronic text, sound, picture, or video for custom multimedia exercises.
North American Simulation and Gaming Association - Links to web sites with components of design, implementation, and evaluation of games and simulations to improve learning results. Also includes a catalog of games and links to articles on such topics as getting a group to think like a genius and managing difficult behaviors.
Learning Solutions - Commercial lesson database for software and hardware use. Free sample lessons and scaled-down lesson planning software provided.
Florida Educational Technology Corporation - In addition to providing an annual conference with the opportunity to review the latest technology trends, this site has technology articles with hyperlinks to resources.
Round World Media - Provides commercial online instruction on various subjects such as Flash 5 and HTML. Services for design and development of educational media for the web and interactive TV also available.
Learning Framework - Commercial online courses for educators, trainers and developers to integrate technology.
On the Horizon - Online courses, projects, workshops, and conferences which explore the implications of a rapidly changing world on educational organizations and processes.
Academic Information: Education - List of resources about teaching with technology.
Total Recall Learning, Inc. - Multimedia approach to memorization of data in such areas as nutrition, spelling, names, marketing, and avoiding sexual harassment.
BT Education - Although most components of this site are specific to the United Kingdom, one is accessible to all; the toolbox offers free lessons on technology such as how to create a database.
Samples of Technology-Based Projects by Freed-Hardeman University School of Education - Links to faculty and student-compiled resources.
J/P Associates - Commercial video products for Direct Instruction, a reading program, as well as language, math, and technology offerings.
TeacherInfo.com - Training modules for email, word processing, spreadsheets, data bases, and presentations as well as resources in media literacy, math, art, and special education.
Technology Pathways - Commercial software for mapping curriculum and facilitate math instruction and assessment.
The Flashcard Exchange - Numerous subject and grade-specific cards available to review online, download, print, or customize. Also includes educational links and services.
Louisiana Region 4 Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center - Training for educators in Louisiana's Region 4 using peer-instructor modeling of technology-connected lessons based on content standards.
Halff Resources - Consulting services for instructional technology research, design, development, and implementation.
Mississippi Teacher Exchange - On-line technology training and tutorials, technology questions answered by e-mail, mentoring program, lesson plans, and links.
ETEC Connections - Tools, resources, grant information and ideas for technology integration standards with beginning and advanced levels.
The New Curriculum - Original columns on classroom uses of technology and practices in professional development. Links to lesson plans, utilities, best of the web, educational technology forums, and news. Free subscription..
Comunicativo.net - Free, printable lesson plans and class activities for teachers of Spanish.
Farming the Web for Education - Internet background, guide, articles and links to validate and facilitate technology infusion into the curriculum.
C·R·E·A·T·E for Mississippi - How to view web sites offline, use an LCD projector for wireless laptops, use a HP Scanjet, and record data/audio as well as lesson plans, handouts and links.
Computer Supported Cooperative Learning - A Review About Computer Supported Collaborative Learning by Erno Lehtinen and the others
The Association For Educational Communications&Technology - Articles and activities to provide leadership in educational communications and technology by linking professionals holding a common interest in the use of educational technology and its application to the learning process.
Books to Read - Recommended reading lists in educational technology and human resource development as well as numerous other areas.
Constructivism - Essays On Constructivism And Education Collected by the Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation Last updated February, 2001.
Computer Mediated Communication - Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication On the Web Quarterly Since June, 1995
Constructivism and Related Sites - This site provide constructivism links. Last Updated: 5/26/01
CSCL 2001 - The European Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 2001 was held at Maastricht, The Netherlands, on March 22-24, 2001. Euro-CSCL 2001 is devoted to the exploration of technology in collaborative forms of learning, teaching and working.
Distance Education At A Glance - Distance Education - Strategies and Tools and Distance Education - A Practical Guide.
Evaluating the Impact of Technology - Article on three main purposes of Instructional technology and how its usefulness can be evaluated.
Australian Journal of Educational Technology - Articles in educational technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies, educational telecommunications and related areas.
The Learning Network - Offers integrated online networks serving K-12, higher education, professional development, and lifelong-learning markets.
Instructional Technology Annotated Bibliographies - Annotated bibliographies on the use of instructional technologies in Science and Mathematics are presented in this page.
Virtual Adaptive Learning Architecture Project - VALA focuses on developing a learning architecture with user interface adaptability that provides a personalized learning environment for each learner
From Now On The Educational Technology Journal - Educational Technology for Engaged Learning Educational Technology for Literacy
The Journal of Virtual Environments - The Journal of Virtual Environments is a refereed electronic journal which publishes research that relates to Virtual Environments or makes use of Virtual Environments.
Centre for Learning, Knowing and Interactive Technologies - Research within the Centre is concerned with developing theories and practices which increase understanding of how cultural, cognitive and technological tools shape and support learning and knowing.
Adoption of Learning Technologies in Schools and Universities - Scholarly article reporting on stages and repeating patterns that shape the IT adoption process.
Matt Stanton's CyberEFL - Help for producing interactive activity webpages for EFL/ESL students.
International Conference on New Technologies in Education ICTE2002 - November, 2002, conference in Spain..
Project ECOLE - Virginia teachers' automated curriculum which links national standards and Virginia standards of learning to activities, lesson plans, projects and automated testing component for students. Requires password.
High School Hub - Links to online games, puzzles, and quizzes.
Digital Equity Toolkit - A collection of resources to help educators and students access, successfully, in their classrooms and projects, technology tools, computers and the Internet.
IntellMedia - The IntelliMedia Initiative is a large-scale multi-disciplinary research program on intelligent multimedia technologies
ScienceMan - A non-profit initiative aimed at helping teachers and students cope with technology integration. Many photographs of computer setups, and a good number of science resources.
Constructivist Virtual Learning Environment - This virtual learning environment (VLE) is developed and designed by Bünyamin ATICI ....
CONSTRUCTIVIST VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT CHECKLISTS (CVLEs) - This checklist will be used to design the constructivist virtual learning environment ...
World Association for Online Education - WAOE: Combining dedication to online learning with fun and cultural exchange.
Critical Issues in Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology - Summary of the Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology on July 12-13, 1999, in Washington, D.C.. It notes a shift in schools' focus on technology from building and implementing a technology infrastructure to evaluating the effectiveness of its use in schools and classrooms.
New Directions in the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Educational Technology - The Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology discusses recent changes in evaluation practices and evaluations for new visions of technology teaching and learning.
Learning with Technology Profile Tool - This profile tool will help you to compare your current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance technology.
Network for the Evaluation of Education and Training Technologies - Includes several links related to evaluation standards and web design.
Technology Foundation Standards for Students - Provides technology standards and sample activities for various grade levels, PreK-12.
Criteria for Evaluating School-Based Distance Education Programs - General discussion of issues related to evaluating distance learning.
The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM): A Model for Change in Individuals - A stage model that applies to anyone experiencing change--policy makers, teachers, parents, students
Situated Evaluation - Contains links to research and evaluation studies done within the situated evaluation framework.
CTB/McGraw-Hill - Publisher of standardized achievement tests and custom assessments including TerraNova, Fox in a Box, SUPERA, LAS, TABE, TestMate, NEDT, CDRT, CDMT, etc. The mission is to help the teacher help the child.
Technology's Role in the Classroom - Nobody believes it's the quick fix for America's K-12 ills. An interview with Linda Roberts, Director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology. She discusses how we can measure whether technology can enhance student learning.
Emerging from the Smog: Making Technology Assessment Work for Schools - This article from "From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal" discusses the importance of evaluating technology in schools.
1999 Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology - Details of the conference, including white papers.
Evaluation of Online Learning - Online resources on the evaluation of online learning and the results of such evaluations. Part of a larger site on building a web-based education system."
User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation: - National Science Foundation guide to program evaluation; includes video.
International Journal of Educational Technology (IJET) - An online journal published twice a year and co-sponsored by the University of Illinois and the University of Western Australia. The journal contains research and evaluation articles in the area of computer-based educational technologies and is aimed at an international audience.
Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching - An online periodical dedicated to the effectiveness and interest of learning and teaching science subjects with the use of IT (especially various multimedia and Internet resources) in schools.
When Will Investments In Educational Technology Pay Off? - As technology grows more incredible, available, inexpensive, and connected, there is no consistent picture emerging that these remarkable tools do in fact improve learning. Jon Madian has been a consultant and writer on educational technology for nearly two decades. He founded a leading journal on technology and curriculum and has authored hundreds of software programs and articles.
Assessment - Evaluation - Discussion of assessment and tools for evaluation of on-line learning.
A Step Towards the Creation of Educational Technology Standards: Identifying Key Skills - This article examines the process of identifying learning standards for educational and instructional technology programs.
Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Program Evaluation - This site contains excellent rubrics that can be used to evaluate any short- or long-term technology program
Educator's Guide to Evaluating the Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms - This guide was developed for the U.S. Department of Education. The guide is a tool for individuals with little formal training in research or evaluation. The handbook provides educators with a resource that enables greater involvement in the evaluation process, learning as they go.
Challenges for the Evaluation of New Information and Communication Technologies - Reprint article which considers various aspects of issues related to technology evaluation, access, and literacy learning.
Instructional Technology in Georgia Schools - An in-depth study of how technology has affected instruction and learning in schools in Georgia.
Technology and Learning Magazine - The May 1998 issue discusses some of the problems with creating authentic assessment tools.
Milken Exchange on Education Technology - A summary of different studies and reports relating to the evaluation of educational technologies.
Evaluating Interactive Multimedia - Shauna McKenna's paper for the Open Learning Institute on evaluating the materials used in computer based learning and evaluating the learning itself.
Education and Information Technologies - The official journal of the IFIP Technical Committee on Education.
Girls Tech: Evaluating Electronic Resources for Girls - Explains and demonstrates a framework to evaluate electronic resources that will encourage and increase young women's interest and participation in the sciences and technology. A program of Douglass College, the undergraduate women?s college of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partnership with the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
Surveylearning.com - Includes survey instruments using a constructivist perspective. Instruments include the COLLES and CLES.
Technology Counts '98 - A report that includes the following: research on technology's impact on test scores and school climate; 10 case studies related to technology and the education reform movement; policies that states should follow; and data on access, capacity, and use. In collaboration with the Milken Exchange on Education Technology.
Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses - This site contains a list of articles from librarians and other information specialists on Web evaluations. In addition, a checklist for evaluating a Web site of as a potential education resource is included.
Evaluating Websites - Developed for use in college courses on website design and evaluation; comprehensive information on issues and methods.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys - A series of website evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, plus many links of website evaluation.
Evaluating Internet Resources - Bullet point notes of strategies and factors to consider when evaluating resources.
The Internet Guide to Construction of Quality Online Resources - By Dr. T.Matthew Ciolek. Online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly networked information systems.
Evaluating Quality on the Net - Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.
10 C's For Evaluating Internet Sources - Criteria to consider when evaluating Internet resources.
Evaluating Web Resources - Modules for evaluating all manner of sites. Includes questions and criteria lists, plus links to example pages for discussion.
Using a Web Site With Your Classes - Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms.
Choice Framework - Developed to evaluate the quality of health-related websites aimed primarily at online health consumers. Evaluation criteria fall under the headings of Credibility, Content, Disclosure, Links, Design, Interactivity, Caveats and Differentiation.
Webpage Evaluation for Librarians - Checklist and examples of what to look for, how to think, related links, and examples of deliberately misleading webpages.
Internet Detective - An interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of internet resources.
Web Searching, Web Page Evaluation, and Research Strategies - A guide to Web research and evaluation strategies, written for first year rhetoric and composition students.
Web Page Evaluation Worksheet - Checklist used to grade web sites.
Web Page Evaluation - Provides a checklist and links to related materials.
Evaluation of Information Sources - Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet.
The Web Credibility Project - Part of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, their goal is to understand what leads people to believe what they find on the Web. With information, papers, and related links.
Evaluating Internet Research Sources - Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.
The Compleat Internet Researcher: The Origin of Information Errors - How do information errors occur?
WWW Cyberguides - Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites.
UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources - Teaches the user how to think critically about World Wide Web resources.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources - Contains evaluation criteria with examples that can be used by educators. Gives suggestions for successful Internet assignments.
Evaluate your Sources - Checklist for judging reliability of information. Links to other sites about the topic.
Getting It Right: Verifying Sources on the Net - LLRX.com article providing strategies and tools to assist in evaluating Website content.
Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet - Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research.
Viewing Results and Evaluating Quality - Questions and criteria to cover. Part of a larger tutorial on effective web searching for college students, written by a research librarian.
Evaluating Quality - Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.
Producing Quality Web Page Content - Article explains how to give a web page content the mark of quality. Conversely, it helps point out what to look for in a quality site.
Evaluating Web Sites - A brief introduction to the World Wide Web as a source of information, and evaluating sites for educational content.
Resource Selection and Information Evaluation - Three questions to answer while evaluating information and resources.
Exemplary Practices in Teaching Web Evaluation - Presentation given in 1998. Covers why evaluation of web resources is necessary, and gives criteria for scrutinizing web materials. Provides links to many related and supporting sites.
Caught in the Web - A journalist's guide to web searches. Covers when to use the library, obstacles to finding what you need on the web (including unreliable information), tips for searching, and links to content-rich sites.
Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation - Categorizes problematic sites and gives many examples of each type. Ends with a section which points to sites which give people accurate information as well as warnings about hoaxes and half-true stories.
Web-Based Information in the Context of Higher Education - Scholarly paper (pdf format) which argues that higher education students are naïve about the problem of misinformation and believe they can identify it and do not make extra effort to check the sources of their information. Discusses sources and causes of misinformation and how it can be combatted.
Validating Web-Based Information - Short article summarizing the issues and pointing to many related resources.
Critically Analyzing Information Sources - Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.
Publishers Wanted, No Experience Necessary: Information Quality on the Web - Research librarian elaborates on five characteristics of superior web sites: timeliness, expediency, accuracy, objectivity, and authenticity
QUICK: The Quality Information Checklist - Eight ways of checking the information on web sites.
Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources - Refereed article written by Alastair Smith which surveys criteria published on the Web and in the print literature and proposes a set of criteria (a toolbox) that can be used by librarians and users to evaluate Internet information sources.
Don't Believe Everything You Read: Ideas for Reading Critically - Short pdf file. Suggestions for evaluating anything you read.
Evaluating Information on the Web - Online tutorial covering authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources - A list of Internet and print resources, with links to example sites and newsgroups.
How To Evaluate A Web Site - Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com.
Evaluating Electronic Resources - Suggested criteria for evaluating Web resources for e-libraries.
DreamTech International - "First and largest reproductive cloning provider." [Contains fictitious information].
Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division - The controversy and dangers of this widespread and potentially deadly chemical element. [Also known as water].
Montana Governor Judy Martz (R) - Site critical of the governor. [Contains fictitious information]
Boulder Vegetable Rights Association - 12 step program for recovering vegetarians. [Contains fictitious information]
Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus - Information about this endangered creature and what can be done to save it. [Contains fictitious information]
Genochoice - A make-believe genetics company selling the perfect offspring. [Contains fictitious information].
Mankato, Minnesota - Tour the underwater city, and learn how "the winter temperature in many Mankato neighborhoods has never dropped below a balmy 70 degrees." [Contains fictitious information].
The First Human Male Pregnancy - Documentary on "the first human male to ever birth a baby from his own body." [Contains fictitious information].
Feline Reactions to Bearded Men - Cats' responses to photographs of unshaved men. [Contains fictitious information].
International Trepanation Advocacy Group (ITAG) - Trepanation is the practice of making a hole in the skull. ITAG is dedicated to accumulating the largest base of information about trepanation on the web. [Contains possibly fictitious information]
California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge - Problems with the 1993 harvest. [Contains fictitious information].
Wakita County Library - Library has few visitors so it sends the library out in bookmobiles. [Contains fictitious information]
Crystal Spirit Wolf Runner - A discussion of the 'discovery' of true Indian spirituality. [Contains fictitious information]
A Concise Grammar of Feorran - Feorran is a language of the Ross Group of the Antarctic Language Family. Site presents a descriptive grammar of the language based upon fieldwork undertaken in 1995-96. Also included are concise lexicons, both Feorran to English and English to Feorran, folktales in Feorran with analysis, and a brief ethnographic sketch. [Contains fictitious information]
The Dolphin Society - A shamanic circle devoted to returning the Earth to a natural state and returning Humanity to godhood through integration with Cetaceans, Elephants, Apes and Giant Squids. [Contains possibly fictitious information]
Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella - Describes a revolutionary gel that stops ordinary water from penetrating skin. [Contains fictitious information]
McWhortle Enterprises - Manufacturer of biological defense mechanisms. Includes testimonials and investment information. [Contains fictitious information]
Shades for Men - Lipstick for males. [Fictitious site]
Brain Transplantation - History and examples of this medical procedure. [Contains fictitious information]
Buy Dehydrated Water - Information, store, and consumer testimonials. [Contains fictitious information]
AIDS Facts - "The true but little known facts about women and AIDS, with documentation, by Dr. Juatta Lyon Fueul." [Contains fictitious information].
Burger King Introduces Left-handed Whopper - Official press release, later revealed as an April Fool's joke.
Strutton Priory - Purports to be the London home of Viscount Felmersham. A parody of aristocratic British life.
Lake Michigan Whale Watching - Information and pictures on dolphin and whale watching in Lake Michigan. [Contains fictitious information]
BBC News: Blondes 'To Die Out in 200 Years' - Natural blondes are an endangered species and will die out by 2202, a study suggests. [Contains fictitious information]
White House [whitehouse.org] - Spoof of whitehouse.gov [Contains fictitious information].
Alex Chiu's Eternal Life Device - Information about immortality rings. [Contains fictitious information]
Gawmless End - Purports to be an illustrated description and history of a historic old Lancashire farmhouse nestling among the Rossendale Hills in the West Pennines of northern England.
Hrnoz-Spandew Travels - A spoof travel agent for the non-existent city of Scôz am Rhein. "For two years in a row we have won the Scozker Touriszt Award." [Contains fictitious information].
Scôz am Rhein Picture Gallery - Images of this non-existent city. [Contains fictitious information].
Burg Scôzes - Purports to be a history of the old castle of Scôz am Rhein, built by Oleg the Noseless. Part of an elaborate parody of heritage literature. [Contains fictitious information].
Scôz am Rhein - Shadows of Excellence - A spoof architectural history of "the most illustrious city in Central Europe", complete with biographies of fictitious architects such as Hub van der Beep and Uwe Grossfleischer.
Burg Scôzes: Rebirth of a Symbol - Describes plans to rebuild the Scozer castle, complete with Gravy Gate, as a museum, with opening planned for 2010. [Contains fictitious information.]
Literacy Resources/Rhode Island - Resource site for integrating technology into adult education, including listserv discussion forum [Brown University].
Funderstanding - Funderstanding's mission is to revolutionize the way people use learning to drive success. Their site is dedicated to keeping providing information about learning and technology.
Converge Magazine - Technology issues in education are covered in this monthly publication.
Australian Journal of Educational Technology - AJET is a refereed academic journal publishing research and review articles in educational technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies, educational telecommunications and related areas.

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