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Multimedia for online delivery can be developed with the support from Media Production & Training.

DePaul's copyright and fair use policy provides important guidelines for the types of materials you can provide to your students through D2L, handouts, and other means.

DePaul has an extensive image and document collection that faculty members can use in their teaching: the Digital Collections at the DePaul library.

Chicago Collection at the DePaul Library is an extensive book-based reference collection about the city of Chicago. It includes history, politics, art and architecture, sociology, and a wide range of other topics relating to the local metropolitan area.

Special Collections at the University Libraries are materials with a strong emphasis is placed on book illustration, particularly from the nineteenth century, and on books that exhibit the arts of printing, support many curricular uses, as well as provide scholarly resources.

Vincentian Heritage Collections at the DePaul Library collects accounts of St. Vincent DePaul including secondary sources and Vincentian journal articles.

iTunes U - DePaul University contains audio and video materials from DePaul University faculty members and staff.

Teaching Resources: The DePaul University Art Museum

Find out more about the DePaul University Museum

Creating Video, Audio and Animated Learning Materials

Creating Video, Audio and Animated Learning Materials can be done with the help of Faculty Instructional Technology Services (FITS). FITS identifies and/or creates appropriate video, audio and multimedia for web-delivery.

Identifying Materials Outside DePaul

Faculty Center is a source for comprehensive information about the college textbook universe. Designed with the college world in mind, there are more than 2,300 unique subject areas laid out in a customized taxonomy based on a generalized course curriculum. Within each subject, the books are ranked according to their usage and allow visitors to filter them by those ranking, so we don't have to click on book after book to find the ones taught most often.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that visitors may use without charge.

Connexions is a place to view and share educational materials that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute to these knowledge modules.

Numerous course lectures, videos, audio, and supplementary material are available on Apple's iTunes U (Requires iTunes software)

Public domain text, video, and audio materials are also available on sites such as Project Gutenberg or the Internet Archive.

Review/Desk Copies

Review copies, also known as desk copies or examination copies, are offered by many textbook publishers. Many are free of charge as long as the textbook is being considered as a textbook for a course.

A number of major publishers such as McGraw-Hill, SAGE Publications, Pearson, O'Reilly, and Wiley have information on obtaining review copies on their respective websites.

Tips on Identifying Materials

How to Choose Course Materials from Western Kentucky University. Checklist of items that will help identify appropriate materials for a course.