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4Adaptive Technolgies

• The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre advances information technology that is accessible to all; through research, development, education, proactive design consultation and direct service (University of Toronto).
• The Special Needs Opportunity Windows or SNOW Project is a provider of online resources and professional development opportunities for educators and parents of students with special needs (University of Toronto).
• The Adaptech Research Network consists of a team of academics, students and consumers, conducting research on the use of computer, information, and adaptive technologies by Canadian college and university students with disabilities (Dawson College).
• Adaptive Technology and Higher Education Resources - A list of key resources in the field (Mount Holyoke)
• Rehabtool, a supplier of adaptive technology products, also provides a number of links to pertinent resources.
• Using Distance Education Technologies to Overcome Physical Disabilities - The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), is working to create a barrier-free learning environment for students with disabilities. In the process of implementing computer conferencing to enhance its telecourses, RIT discovered that these same delivery system technologies could be used to transcend some of the learning difficulties experienced by persons with physical handicaps (Norman Coombs).

4Assessment

Once you have determined how your learners will demonstrate their online learning, these reviews of assessment strategies and issues will be useful:

• The Inexorable and Inevitable: The Continuing Story of Technology and Assessment - This paper argues that the inexorable advance of technology will force fundamental changes in the format and content of assessment (Randy Elliot Bennett).
• Sunil Hazari's Web-Based Assessment page: A review of issues and approaches to quiz building and surveys, with reference to other sites.
• "Taking Your Course to the Internet" series:
  • Evaluation; Definitions; Student Testing and Academic Honesty; Course Evaluation and Performance-Based Assessments; Building Assessment into Course Design; Consider Social Interactions; Consider Individual Learning Outcomes; Evaluation Activities
• University of Minnesota series on Assessment:
  • Theory and Background of Assessment
  • How to Assess Your Course
  • Hybrid Assessment Resources

4Copyright, Intellectual Property and Online Teaching

• Copyright Information: Provides the latest information on revisions to Canada's Copyright Act and regulations; position statements by associations and governments on copyright reform; interpretations of Canadian copyright law; issues related to digital information and media copyright, and more (Canadian Library Association).
• An International Benchmarking Study of Copyright Operations in Distance Education Universities - This article summarizes the findings of a study on copyright operations at Canadian universities, and discusses the implications for copyright operations at Athabasca University and at other distance education institutions, including the role of the copyright officer and ethical questions of institutional intellectual ownership.
• Courseware Ownership in Distance Education: Historically, faculty owned lecture notes, syllabi, articles and textbooks. This approach to ownership of scholarly works is premised on the traditional academic exception to the work for hire rule in copyright law. However, as more institutions of higher learning are using the World Wide Web (Web) to deliver courses, the issue of whether the academic exception should apply to course materials has become less clear and more contentious (Sloan-C View).
• Copyright Law, the Internet, and Distance Education - Copyright issues and laws vary from country to country, but this discussion of copyright laws in the United States raises many of the key questions regarding copyright for distance education courses and programs and should be useful to distance educators in many different countries (World Bank).
• Who Owns What? Unbundling Web Course Property Rights - A policy on web course ownership may settle conflicts on campus (Educause).

4Hybrid Courses

• Hybrid Online Courses and Strategies for Collaboration - Malaspina University-College
• Community Learning Network - Designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom, with more than 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search (Open School BC).
• The Hybrid Online Model - Good Practice - A step-by-step approach to providing hybrid classes (Educause).
• Measuring Success: Evaluation Strategies for Distance Education - Challenges, formative issues, and a sample scenario (Educause).
• Lessons Learned from the Hybrid Project - Observations about hybrid course design and teaching for faculty and academic administrators (University of Wisconsin).
• Creating a Hybrid Course - Tips and a check-list to help faculty prepare a hybrid course (Kristina Kauffman).
• A Hybrid Approach to Web-Delivered Courses - Preparing Principals and Superintendents - Students and the instructor in struggle to balance the traditional classroom approach and a Web-delivered approach (Lee Gray).
• What are Hybrid Courses? - University of Milwaukee Hybrid Course website.
• The Hybrid Experience: How Sweet It Is! - Hybrid course development at the University of Central Florida. 
• The Payoff for Systemic Evaluation of University-Wide Distributed Learning - Discusses the success of, and faculty/student approaches to W Courses (delivered entirely over the Web, with no regular class meetings) M Courses (some face-to-face instruction is replaced with web instruction so that on-campus time is reduced), and E Courses: delivered entirely in face-to-face mode, but with web enhancements (University of Central Florida).
• Who Takes Online Courses? -- Discussion of the characteristics, success and strategies of online, hybrid and face-to-face learners (University of Central Florida).

4Learning Technology Centres - A Listing

• Algonquin College, Learning and Teaching Services
• Carleton University, Instructional Media Services
• Concordia University, Centre for Teaching and Learning Services
• Dalhousie University, Instructional Development Technology Office
• Open Learning Agency
• Queen's University, Learning Technology Unit, Information Technology Services
• University of Toronto, Centre for Instructional Technology Development
• Simon Fraser University, Center for Educational Technology
• Télé-université
• University of Alberta - Academic Technologies for Learning Centre
• University of Guelph, Teaching Support Services
• Vitrine APO
• York University, Centre for the Support of Teaching

4Online Communities

• Classroom Discussions for the Twenty-first Century - A moderated discussion forum does have a positive effect on student writing abilities (Beth DePasquale and Tom Miller).
• A case of distance collaboration in a virtual community of practice - Project-focused collaboration in practice. Also by the same author is Introduction to Community Design Architecture™, which discusses the planned evolution of online communities (George Pór)
• Cosmology on the Internet: Distance education for the gifted and talented - Discussion addresses ways in which the model might be used to design a wider range of courses in science for gifted and talented students (David H. McKinnon and C.J. Patrick Nolan). 
• Organizational learning and communities-of-practice: Toward a unified view of working, learning, and innovation. a unified understanding of working, learning, and innovating is potentially highly beneficial, allowing, it seems likely, a synergistic collaboration rather than a conflicting separation among workers, learners, and innovators (John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid).
• Personal Media and the Human Community - “Mass media” was a product of the industrial age, and vice versa; so, what will become of media in the information age? (Shigeru Miyagawa).