Examples of Instructional Materials on the Web

Many people know that I regularly search the Web for examples of good instructional materials. Because folks often ask me for a list of the good ones that I find, I've decided to keep a web page with these good instructional examples. Please note that every example isn't necessarily wonderful in all respects... but each shows good use of certain types of instructional strategies and interactions.

Got others to nominate? If so, send them to me...they must be viewable by the general public. (That last caveat is the reason why you'll see mostly higher ed examples here... higher ed folks seem to be more willing to share than training folks, for some reason...)

Example

Activities

A Case Study in Ultra-Modern Warfare
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/VirtualClassroom/HAARP/haarp.html

Cases, group projects

Visual Calculus
http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/

Tutorials, quiz

Research Methods in the Social and Natural Sciences
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/res_meth/index.html

Virtual lab

Seeing Statistics
http://www.seeingstatistics.com/

Virtual lab

Town Planning in Post-Suburban America
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/stern/lar702/intro.html

Case study, Student design teams

Online Instructional Strategies (collaboration area)
http://opencentric.com/wrcc/strategies01/linker/link.cgi

Evaluate relevant URLs

Biofilms & Biodiversity
http://www.mdsg.umd.edu/wit/

Virtual lab

Legal and Ethical Issues in Psychotherapy
http://wit.bowiestate.edu/wmckelvie/MODS/ModulesFrame.htm

Discussion and synthesis

Not-for-Profit and Government Organizations
http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/module1/umuc_ex/kmichel.html  

Group paper

Creative Design for the World Wide Web
http://creativity.bgsu.edu/courses/art586/Sum00/
flashcurriculum/index.html

Tutorials, demonstrate use of software

Forecasting Aviation Icing: Icing Type and Severity
http://meted.ucar.edu/icing/pcu6/index.htm

Presentation with quizzes

Quarks to Quasars
http://www.wordwizz.com/pwrsof10.htm

Visualization

A Guided Tour of Dante's Florence
http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities
/literature/world_literature/dante/tour/florence_tour.html

Virtual field trip

Mystery Yeast Mutation
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/disorders/units/yeastmut/index.html

Hybrid lesson

Texaco Racial Discrimination Case
http://wit.bowiestate.edu/srhodes/Assgmts/Assgmt2.htm

Case study

Lingua MOO
http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/

Virtual world

Online Biology Book
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html

Online Book

Chem Balancer
http://www.dun.org/sulan/chembalancer/

Virtual  lab

Ask the Experts – Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/

Q&A

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion?
You Decide!
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/hoax/index.htm

Hybrid, Webquest

Virtual Chancery Court
http://www.lclark.edu/~court/

Case study, student opinion teams

Phonetics Flash Animation Project
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/

Fertilization
http://www.uchsc.edu/ltc/Fertilization.html

Knowledge Dynamics Business Simulation Demos
http://www.knowledgedynamics.com/SubFrame.htm?percent=0&frame=3&flip
=0&play=1&nextMovie=demos