Online Teaching Resource List

Online Teaching Resource List

Last Update: April 23, 2020

This document will continue to be updated with new resources. Please feel free to add new resources as you come across them.

Online Teaching Resources

• • Community hub for sharing strategies, resources, and events (SERC and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers)

  • When Emergency Strikes: Lessons From College Closures (Chronicle of Higher Ed)

  • PhysPort recommended resources (Physport)

  • Moving Online Now collected resources (Chronicle of Higher Ed)

  • Almost 400 institutions' crowd-sourced alternative teaching resources, shared in a Google Sheet

  • Resource Page for COVID-19 (EDUCAUSE)

  • "Continuity Planning and Emergency Preparedness" resource collection (Online Learning Consortium)

  • Resources for assessment during the COVID-19 outbreak and assessment item bank for the distance ed transition (AALHE)

  • Free Resources for Schools During COVID-19 Outbreak (The Journal)

  • COVID19 Library Resources (AAPT)

  • Disability Support Resource Collections (U. Washington Do-It)

  • COVID19 Resources for Higher Education (USC Pullias Center for Higher Education)

  • Magnet Academy. Maglab.

Classroom Resources

• • Home-Adapted ILDs (Interactive Lecture Demonstrations) (U. Oregon)

  • At Home Learning (Arbor Scientific)

  • Remote Instruction using Peer Learning (Peer Physics)

  • The rainbow in the box (American Journal of Physics)

  • A compact disc under skimming light rays (American Journal of Physics)

  • Oscillations in a half-empty bottle (American Journal of Physics)

  • The physics of a popsicle stick bomb (American Journal of Physics)

  • Sinking bubbles in stout beers (American Journal of Physics)

  • Using a shoebox spectrograph to investigate the differences between reflection and emission (American Journal of Physics)

  • Newton's graphical method for central force orbits (American Journal of Physics)

  • Water bottle flipping physics (American Journal of Physics)

  • Labs: Experiments that allow Students to collect data at home (AAPT- CPTYC)

  • UIUC Virtual Introductory Labs (UIUC)

  • PHET, University of Colorado

  • LLNL Distance Learning

    • For more information, Contact: David Rakestraw: rakestraw1@llnl.gov

    • Dave is happy to do webinar demonstrations of the experiments.

  • Introductory Physics Lessons (Compadre)

  • Waves: An Interactive Tutorial (Compadre)

  • RealTime Physics

  • IOLabs

Student Wellbeing and Financial Resources

• • Resources for Supporting Student Wellbeing (IGEN)

  • Low-cost Mental Health Resources

  • BEAM Fund for NMC Mentees (APS)

  • Emergency Aid Fund (Scholly)

Supporting Students with Disabilities

• • Zoom Accessibility Features (Zoom)

  • University of Washington Do-It (U. Washington Do-It)

  • 20 Tips for Teaching an Accessible Online Course (Access CyberLearning)

  • The Center for Accessible Distance Learning (AccessDL)

  • Captioning Lecture Capture Videos: A Promising Teaching Practice (U. Washington Do-It)

  • Universal Design of Web Pages in Class Projects (U. Washington Do-It)

  • Universal Design: Process, Principles, and Applications (U. Washington Do-It)

Webinars

• • Past Webinars (All have recordings available)

    • March 12, POD Network: Keep Teaching During Campus Emergencies

    • March 23-27, Columbia U.: Teaching Online, Series on YouTube

    • March 26, Dr. Mays Imad: Trauma-Informed Teaching & Learning

    • April 1-2, Aspire Alliance: Teaching Inclusively & Equitably Online Workshop Series

  • Ongoing Series (All have recordings available of past webinars).

    • April - May Thursdays, USC: Racial Equity in Online Environments

    • March-April Thursdays, NILOA: Series on assignment design, curriculum mapping, evidence-based storytelling, transparency in teaching

    • April Fridays, AAC&U: Faculty Friday Webinars

    • April, ACUE: Effective Online Instruction Webinar Series

    • April, NASEM Board on Higher Ed & Workforce: NASEM Forum on Postsecondary Response to COVID-19

Listservs (subscribe using link)

• • Physics Education Leaders Mailing List (APS)

  • Online Discussion Lists (AAPT)

  • Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN)

  • The Center for Accessible Distance Learning (AccessDL)

Online Discussion Forums

• • AAPT’s Online Discussion Lists

  • ASEE has created multiple Facebook groups: Collaborative Discussion Forum, P12 Instructors and Parents Forum, Online Teaching Repository, & Research Operations Repository

  • AEA 365 blog

  • AAPT Physics Education Virtual Coffee Breaks, Tuesdays 4-5p ET, RSVP: send an email to marketing@aapt.org

Quick Reads

• • Moving Physics Courses Online on Short Notice (APS News)

  • So You Want to Temporarily Teach Online (Inside Higher Ed)

  • Coronavirus: 14 Simple Tips for Better Online Teaching (The Conversation).

  • Moving Your Classes Online? Here’s How to Make It Work (Wired).

  • Professors need to be flexible to successfully transition to online class (The GW Hatchet).

  • Teaching and Learning After COVID-19 (Inside Higher Ed).

  • Student Motivation and Engagement in Online Courses (Science Education Resource Center.

  • How To Motivate Students Online: What Works And What Doesn’t (eLearning Industry).

  • What Makes a Successful Online Learner? (Minnesota State).

Reports

• • Supporting Online Learning in a Time of Pandemic (USC Rossier School of Education)

  • Supporting Faculty During and After Covid -19 (ASPIRE)

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