OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

Quoted from the OpenCourseWare Consortium

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php

Open Education is a pathway to share course content and intellectual property with the larger educational community at not cost.

Two of these sites are:
MIT Open Courseware
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Merlot
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

These materials are free to use. The only stipulation is a citation of the source.

Building web pages offline can be simple provided you have the right tools.

Here is a list of free software that you may download and use to create web pages and course content for online courses.

http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml#wysiwyg

By using free open source software and the files they create are less apt to have copyright problems than proprietary software such as Word.

And the LORD said: Thou shalt not let a day pass in which thou dost not perform thy backups. But the people were foolish and very full of themselves, and they were prodigal and did not do their backups.

And lo and behold, there came a great crash and the DISK OF LIFE was wiped clean. And then the foolish people did rend their clothes, and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. And they prayed for the restoration of the disk, and made great offerings of gold with their lamentations.

BUT IT WAS ALL IN VAIN!!!!

Beginning this spring we will be presenting a Faculty Orientation/Training for those who desire or will be teaching in an online environment this fall.

If you are teaching or hope to teach online this fall please send to me an email. We will add your name to the list and will send information to you about the training/orientation when it is available.

We are currently building this training opportunity. The goal is to be online with the training/orientation in couple of weeks. (Middle of March 2010)