Reading through the first discussion in the ID certification course "Creating Useful Resources for Faculty" I am seeing that a lot of my colleagues have a large knowledge of what online tools to use depending on the online course, and I am curious to learn how they found these tools? Is it many years of work? Do they research each tool as the need arises in a specific online course? Is there an online database or blog out their with all the tools you can imagine and more? Do the librarians have a role to play in this dance? Does this question require a new role at University's?
Each faculty will need a unique set of online tools depending on their course needs. And each faculty member will have to learn these new tools along with the online learning management system. Is it too much to learn? During one of the Angel training session at FIT Dan recommends starting off teaching online in a simple way. Build your course and know the basics. As you get more comfortable begin adding tools one at a time. Dan teaches us that you don't have to have the most advanced online course your first few times teaching it.
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