Functional emerging instructional technologies and connections to learning and associated research.
| Technology | Example in the Classroom & Literature Link | Level |
| 1. Plastic Logic | Recently available. | high |
| 2. Second Life | Purdue's Annotated Bibliography of Education in SL. | high |
| 3. Podcasts | Stanfords iTunes U sharing audio course material. | high |
| 4. Wiki's | Inside Higher Ed Making Wiki's Work for Scholarship. | moderate |
| 5. Clickers | Clickers in the Class: An Active Learning Approach. | moderate |
| 6. Kindle EReader | Times Higher Education: A new chapter for readers. | moderate |
| 7. WebLogs | Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog. | moderate |
| 8. Bookmarking | Horizon.au Social Bookmarking Relevance. | low |
| 9. E-Whiteboards | National Science Digital Library Whiteboard Report. | low |
| 10. iGoogle | Teaching College Math with iGoogle. | low |
Institutions which have developed Best Practices for Online Instruction:
University of Massachusetts at Amherst handbook.
Vanderbilt University CfT Technology Overview.
UCLA OID Research on the Use of Technology in Instruction.
University of Oregon facilitating online learning.
Educause Future of Online Teaching.
Georgia State DOE students survey to determine online learning viability
Rubrics for evaluating faculty’s online course:
Michigan Virtual University - http://standards.mivu.org.
Rubric for Evaluating Online Discussions - http://www.sonoma.edu/users/c/cochran/edu480/post_rubric.html
Online Course Evaluation Rubric - http://facultyfiles.deanza.edu/gems/taylorvalerie/courseevalrubric.html
Online Design Checklist - http://www.fgcu.edu/onlinedesign/newchecklist/
MERLOT Evaluation Standards - http://taste.merlot.org/eval.html