Instructional Design, Technology and Distance Education Links

(1) Instructional Design

- Lists of Instructional Design Models (Wow! Martin Ryder - Univ of Colorado at Denver)
- Don Clarks Instructional Design Site
- Instructioanl Design for Online Learning (useful set of links)

(2) Distance Education

- The No Significant Difference Phenomena Website
- NETNet's Distance Education Course Setup Tools (Extremely practical)

(3) CONTENT & LEARNING OBJECTS REPOSITORIES





Excellent collection of many learning object repositories (sites).

(4) CMS/LMS WEBSITES

Test drive Open Source CMS systems all on one site!


Compare well over a hundred CMS systems and see up to 10 cms's side by side at once!




CMS ARTICLES - all the basics in a nutshell! (No decorations. Pure info. Bite size!)

(5) EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

(6) Instructional Technology

- Pages of Mind mapping & knowlege management sites/software! Mind-mapping.org
- What is Web 2.0 (Orielly), What is Web 2.0(Paul Graham)

- Nielson Norman Group - Usability, technology, & software design gurus.

(7) Web Tools and Cutting Edge Productivity

- Mashable.com. 5000+ tools for productivity on the web. I jumped for joy when they put all their lists into one. It's like a shopping spree made of online tools!

- WebWare.com: You are missing some WILDLY powerful (and free) web apps!! This site lists voters top 100. Better yet is to explore the categories on the right site of the page.
- Social networking: a new web trend. (Like myspace for business executives).
- MindTools.com (estimating, graphic organizing, analysis, productivity)

- Logmein.com - Free remote access software for your PC or MAC. Work at a distance.