Resources

A thorough but accessible bulleted list of items to consider when designing writing assignments, from University of Minnesota’s Center for Writing.

University of Minnesota’s Center for Writing offers this brief essay outlining a process for creating a rubric.

Extensive rubric for grading student papers. Clear, concise, and helpful. By Richard Ascough, religion faculty member.

A comprehensive set of documents produced by Illinois Online Network (University of Illinois) on such topics as: Assessment, Instructional Design, Course Objectives, Hybrid Courses, Communications, and Intellectual Property Rights

Exhaustive overview to help teachers, administrators, facilitators, and students understand distance education, including: teaching strategies, review of research, the key processes of instructional development, evaluation, profiles of online students, copyright issues, glossary. University of Idaho.

An online tutorial describing a methodology for creating online learning. Upon completion of the course you should be able to: explain why online education is an effective learning format for adult learners; write measurable learning objectives; organize content into an online format; and create assessment tools/exercises that measure achievement of learning objectives. University of Tennessee.

An extensive list of links to the many other sites available on evaluating information; part of the Information Quality WWW Virtual Library.

A concise and not too abbreviated set of guidelines from UC Berkeley to help students to assess the many types of resources they’ll encounter through research, and evaluate a source’s authority and appropriateness for their research.

Purdue University site helping students evaluate bibliographic citations, content in a source, as well as internet sources. Links to further resources.

For students, a concise review of how to evaluate the authority, usefulness, and reliability of the information found through the process of library research. Including: books, periodical articles, multimedia titles, or Web pages – whether looking at a citation, a physical item in hand, or an electronic version on a computer. Links to lengthier discussions.