Posted 8:13 AM by George Siemens
Some useful resource sites...

Web Teaching...lists a series of interesting articles related to online teaching...

A Smarter Teacher
Quote:
"George Bernard Shaw could not have been more wrong when he coined the famous maxim, "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." In a fast-moving economy that is driven by ideas, an essential part of being a leader is being a good teacher."

Web Classification
Quote:
" Classification (taxonomy, categorization) is to content as mapping is to geography. It is an essential tool that allows the person visiting a website to navigate it quickly and efficiently. Without professional classification a website becomes a jumble yard of content that is confusing and time wasting."

Comment:
Designing a web page (if it is used for course delivery - instead of, or in conjuction with, a CMS or LMS) is critical. It has the same level of importance as the design, feel, layout of a classroom...after all, in an online environment, the web page is the classroom...