References from Track
3: Distance Learning
Syllabus99 Institute
July 29-30, 1999
Santa Clara, CA
Facilitator: Judith V. Boettcher, Ph.D., Executive Director
CREN Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
References compiled by J. Douglass Klein
Associate Dean for Information Technology
Union College, Schenectady, New York
Rough notes on references mentioned during a discussion of Distance Learning at
the First Annual Syllabus Institute, July, 1999. Last revised May 31, 2000 by Doug Klein. Please suggest new links, and bring broken ones to my attention.
Web sites and organizations:
- "A Web site about the pedagogy, technology, and
practice of distance education can be found at http://jac.sbs.ohio-state.edu/cable/pedagogy/. The site is well organized, easy to navigate and packed with
information on research, philosophies, development and design, teaching, and
assessment." (Syllabus: News, Resources, & Trends for December 20, 1999)
- www.distance-educator.com:
Distance-Educator.com offers a comprehensive line of products and services to fulfill your
information and consulting needs in the growing and fast changing world of open,
life-long, technology-based teaching and learning.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education coverage of Distance Learning, at http://chronicle.com/distance.
Especially useful is the Chronicle's list of links to
Distance Learning Resources.
- Links and resources from Converge
online magazine.
- Resources in Distance Education (RIDE) http://ccism.pc.athabascau.ca/html/ccism/deresrce/de.htm
- TALiSMAN was established
in June 1996 to support Teaching and Learning in Scottish Metropolitan Area Networks
- University of Kansas: Online Resources in Higher Education - updated July 1999
http://eagle.cc.ukans.edu/~cte/OtherSites.html
- Judith V. Boettcher, Ph.D., Executive Director, CREN Corporation for Research and
Educational Networking
http://www.cren.net/~jboettch/
- Burks Oakley site is very inclusive: www.online.uillinois.edu/oakley,
including many of his presentations.
- Equal Access to Software (EASI) http://www.rit.edu/~easi/easisem.html
- "Bobby" seal for ADA compliant web sites: www.cast.org/bobby
- Computer Access Solutions for students with disabilities: http://www.tggweb.com/disable/index.htm
- Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) are people networks for anytime - anywhere
learning. http://www.aln.org/
See: Jeff Raikes, Group VP, Microsoft Sales and Marketing "The Campus of the 21st
Century: A New Paradigm for Online Learning Presentation Description", presented at
the 3rd conference (1997).
- Teaching and Learning Roundtable (AAHE); Flashlight assessment project; Student
Technical Assistants program (STA) www.tltgroup.org
- EDUCAUSE - www.educause.edu - see especially
paper #17 on distance learning.
- K-12 Concord system. www.concord.org
- http://www.openspacetechnology.com --
uses some of ideas of Steve Gilbert's TLTR for running effective meetings.
- WICHE - Western Interstate Consortium for HE. Distance Learning Handbook, http://www.wiche.edu/; The Transformation of Higher
Education Through Information Technology: Implications For State Higher Education Finance
Policy is a recent WICHE paper which explores the impact of the explosive growth of new
technology on higher education budgets. ( http://www.wiche.edu/IT&Finance.htm
)
- Cornell U. Education policy & law [can someone supply a url?]
Books and Periodicals
- Bransford, John, How People Learn
- Brown, David (Wake Forest) book; includes case studies from "most wired"
campuses
- Business 2.0
- Johnstone, Sally - book on DE Management
- Kahn, Badrul Huda, Web-Based Instruction. expensive, but 90+ best practice case
studies.
- Katz & Associates, Dancing with the Devil: Information Technology and the New
Competition in
- Saba and Shearer, Verifying Key Theoretical Concepts in Distance Education
- Wired
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