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

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 3^rd 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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