Best
Practices
Category:
Consortium for Improvement of Online Education
http://www.sloan-c.org/
- "Sloan-C
encourages the collaborative sharing of knowledge and
effective practices to improve online education in 5 areas: learning
effectiveness,
access, affordability for learners and providers,
and student and faculty
satisfaction."
- The
Effective
Practices site contains links to actual practices illustrating
each of the 5 standards by which effective online learning is
measured.
Category:
Healthcare and General Use "Best
practices: practices that have been shown to produce superior
results; selected
by a systematic process; and judged
as exemplary, good or successfully demonstrated."
Reproductive
Health Online – Reproline
A service of JHPIEGO Corporation, an Affiliate of John Hopkins University
http://www.reproline.jhu.edu/index.htm 
- An
effective and well-done online resource for trainers, instructional
designers, and materials developers involved in healthcare. Sponsored
by the JHPIEGO Corporation, a nonprofit organization
affiliated with John Hopkins University. It
works to improve the health and well-being of women and families
in developing countries.
- Much
of the information on this site is applicable to training and
instructional design in general.
- The
Tools for Trainers and Reading Room sections contain training
exercises and activities, model course schedules, case studies,
presentation graphics, and articles on competency based training,
performance improvement, and the basics of the instructional
design process.
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Web Design and Usability
http://www.useit.com
- Jakob
Nielsen's Website is a plethora of best practices on usability
and Web design. Do a search on "best practices" and you can narrow
the results down to the newest "best practices" pages. Click
on one of the 7 categories such as Recommended books and links
about Web design, hypertext, and user interfaces to gain access
to documents with "best practices" already highlighted.
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e-Learning
http://www.elearningguild.com/index.cfm
- Community
of Practice where e-Learning designers, developers and managers
can focus on their professional development, enhance their peer
network, and identify resources for ensuring that the organizations'
e-Learning projects are more successful.
top Category:
Training and Workforce Development
http://www.trainingmag.com
- Published
12 times a year, this professional online and in print magazine
is geared toward training, human resources, and business management
in all industries. Every
editorial presents a best practice case study. Every year the
top 100 companies are profiled explaining why and how their training
programs are award winners.
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Teaching
for Learning
http://www.TrainInc.co.nz/books.htm
- In e-book
format, a best practice guide in instructional design
- Teachers
and trainers who want their course designs to be based first
and foremost on sound educational principles will find this
e-book very instructive
- Author Mark
Nichols is an eLearning consultant at Universal College of Learning,
New Zealand
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