Distance Education Faculty Training Program:
This University of Florida site has tutorials that walk you through all the major steps of designing a course online. http://training.ifas.ufl.edu/deft/

Guide to Distributed Learning Environments:
This site at the University of Alberta gives a comprehensive overview of all of the components of a successful online course.
http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/dleweb/

Resource Discovery Network Virtual Training Suite:
A United Kingdom cooperative site that is organized around disciplines. The focus of these training modules is on how to search and evaluate websites within your discipline.
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/aboutus.htm

Faculty Development 101:
To get the most out of this site, you need to be a member of Penn Statešs World Campus. However, you can still get a lot of tips about designing and delivering online instruction.
http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/facdev101/

UMUC Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology:
The focus of these modules is on helping faculty decide which technology will best help them achieve a given teaching goal.
http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/

Center for Instructional Technologies:
Great tutorials on just about any software you might want to use in your course.
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/howto/

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