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Instructional Technology

Instructional Technology, also often referred to as Educational Technology, deals with the use of technology in teaching. This includes using interactive computer technologies for accompanying traditional courses, course websites, network learning, but also such relatively simple technologies as traditional audio-visual equipment (video, overhead projectors).

Please do not submit sites about the teaching of technology here, except where the intended audience is educators and the subject is technology for teaching; technology education belongs in Reference : Education : Subjects : Technology. Sites designed to help learning internet and computer skills can be found in Computers: Education: Programming and Computers : Internet : WWW : Authoring.

When submitting a site to this category, please do so in the most specific subcategory possible. For instance, if your site is geared towards teaching in high schools, submit it to the K-12 subcategory.

Please see the category description for more details about instructional technology.

Adult and Continuing Education

Technology specifically as used in adult and continued education.

Course Website Software

This section lists software platforms dedicated to managing and delivering online web courses. They also known as Learning Management Systems (LMSes), Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), or simply "courseware". They mainly focus on higher education. These platforms enable teachers/institutions to create web sites with functions such as:

authentication (of learners and staff)
integrated communication facilities (mainly asynchronous but also synchronous)
integrated quiz engines
management and publishing of resources
tracking and reporting of student activities
delivery of training material

They are not just authoring tools. The content is often created with external software.

Please only submit links to platforms/environments/software to manage and deliver online web courses focusing on higher education. Among their functions they usually include:

authentication (of students)
integrated communication facilities (mainly asynchronous but also synchronous)
integrated quiz engines
management and publishing of resources
tracking and reporting of student activities

Evaluation

This category is for methods and theory related to instructional technology evaluation--determining the quality, merit, or worth of hardware, software, web sites, and instructional programs. It emphasizes the special characteristics of instructional technologies that affect approaches to evaluation.

This category is for sites about critically evaluating information retrieved on the Web, and NOT a place for businesses and consulting firms offering Web design evaluation services. Please see Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development and Computers/Internet/Consultants for a better place to submit such sites.

Higher Education

This category contains sites relevant to educational technology in higher (post-secondary) education. This is the place to find resources and information on how to use new technologies in the classroom, how to put your course on the world wide web, and how to use electronic communication to enhance communication with and between students. Note that sites which are not specific to higher education should usually be submitted to the generic Instructional Technology category.

This category contains sites relevant to educational technology in higher (post-secondary) education. Please do not submit websites of colleges, universities, or degree programs here, even if they specialize in technology or educational technology. These sites go to Reference: Education: Colleges and Universities.

Organizations

Regional, national, international organizations dealing with technology in education in general (not limited to primary and secondary or higher education).

Publications

Newsletters and journals devoted to educational technology in general.

Weblogs

Primarily for sites, papers, or blogs (or blog entries) about the use of weblogs in education. In other words, sites listed here are about weblogs as an instructional technology.

Individual weblogs for teachers, students, or staff that do not fit this topic almost certainly should go to dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/Personal

Primarily for sites, papers, or blogs (or blog entries) about the use of weblogs in education. In other words, sites listed here are about weblogs as an instructional technology.

Individual weblogs for teachers, students, or staff that do not fit this topic almost certainly should go to dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/Personal