Distance Education
Associations
National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN). The National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN) provides dynamic professional development opportunities in support of emerging and current technology applications to professionals involved in higher education. As a premier higher education organization in the educational telecommunications field, NUTN provides vision and experience in a highly personal setting. It utilizes numerous channels to facilitate and promote networking, mentoring, and collaborating among higher education institutions, administrators managing technology and content delivery, teaching faculty and educational technology professionals.
www.nutn.org
Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET). WCET is a cooperative network of member institutions and organizations that provides a leading source of critical thinking and expertise on the evolving role of technology in higher education. Our membership includes many of the top technology innovators from colleges, universities, non-profit organizations, and companies around the country—and the world. In the realm of higher education, a cross-section of leaders, administrators and faculty add to the diversity that distinguishes the richness of WCET’s work.
www.wcet.info
Association for Educational Communications
and Technology (AECT). The mission of
the Association for Educational Communications
and Technology is to provide leadership
in educational communications and technology
by linking professionals holding a common
interest in the use of educational technology
and its application to the learning
process.
www.aect.org
US Distance Learning Association (USDLA).
The United States Distance Learning
Association was the first nonprofit
Distance Learning association in the
United States to support Distance Learning
research, development and praxis across
the complete arena of education, training
and communications.
In 1987, the USDLA was founded on the
premise of creating a powerful alliance
to meet the burgeoning education and
training needs of learning communities
via new concepts of the fusion of communication
technologies with learning in broad
multidiscipline applications.
www.usdla.org
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Government
sites and projects
National Center for Education Statistics. NCES is the
primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing
data that are related to education in the US and other
nations.
nces.ed.gov
Workforce Development Technology Research,
US Department of Labor Website. Includes
links to Federally-sponsored learning
technology research websites, funding
sources for learning technology research
and implementation, and Information
Technology Legislation.
wdr.doleta.gov/research/tech/
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Higher
Education
The Distance Education Clearinghouse is a comprehensive and widely recognized
Web site bringing together distance
education information from Wisconsin,
national, and international sources.
New information and resources are being
added to the Distance Education Clearinghouse
on a continual basis. The Clearinghouse
is managed and maintained by the University
of Wisconsin-Extension, in cooperation
with its partners and other University
of Wisconsin institutions.
www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html
The Southern Regional Education Board has three reports on its website: Credit
Issues, Quality Assurance, and Student
Services. At its June, 1999, meeting,
the SREB approved the establishment
of the SREB Distance Learning Policy
Laboratory. Building upon the work of
the Educational Technology Cooperative
and the Electronic Campus, the Policy
Laboratory seeks to reduce or eliminate
existing or potential policy barriers
to distance learning activities in three
broad areas: access, quality, and cost.
www.electroniccampus.org/policylab/index.asp
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K-12
The Consortium for School Networking
(CoSN), a national nonprofit organization,
promotes the use of information technologies
and the Internet in K-12 education to
improve learning. CoSN is especially
known for its work supporting Total
Cost of Ownership (TCO) and efficient
budgeting for K-12 technology initiatives.
www.cosn.org
North American Council for Online Learning is an international K-12 non-profit
organization representing the interests
of administrators, practitioners, and
students involved in online learning
in the United States, Canada, and Mexico,
facilitating collaboration, advocacy,
and research to enhance quality K-12
online learning. http://www.nacol.org/resources/
State Educational Technology Directors
Association (SETDA) is the principal
association representing the state directors
for educational technology. SETDA's
membership includes educational technology
directors and staff from the state departments
of education of all fifty states, the
District of Columbia and the Bureau
of Indian Affairs. As members of SETDA,
state leaders work together in committees,
subcommittees and task forces to assess,
analyze and propose recommendations
on how to improve student learning through
technology.
http://www.setda.org/Toolkit2003/dddm/index.htm
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Link
Pages
About.com has a distance learning page.
Organized by category, there are dozens
of sites listed here.
http://distancelearn.about.com/mbody.htm
Best Education E-Practices, by St.
Petersburg Junior College. Newsletter
that gathers links to articles and information
on a different eLearning issue each
month.
http://www.spjc.edu/eagle/BEEP/issues.htm
Best Practices in Distance Learning links page from
the RIT Distance and Online Learning Faculty Academic
Resources page.
http://www.rit.edu/~609www/ch/faculty/best.htm
Web Based Learning Resources Library.
This page focuses on web based learning
for higher education, especially for
at-distance, adult learners but has
application for web based learning in
general.
http://www.knowledgeability.biz/weblearning/
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Magazines
e-Learn Magazine is published by ACM,
a not-for-profit educational association
serving those who work, teach, and learn
in the various computing-related fields.
Content is culled from two distinct
sources: News and features written by
professional journalists with expertise
in education and technology, and columns
and tutorials by industry leaders and
stars of academia.
www.elearnmag.com
E-learningmag.com. Powered by the top-notch
editorial content of e-learning magazine,
and featuring an unparalleled e-learning
community, elearningmag.com is backed
by one of the world's leading business
information companies, Advanstar Communications.
Each day you'll find the best information
on building and delivering advanced
learning environments for business,
government, and higher education.
www.elearningmag.com
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Professional
Development
The e-learning Guild is a member-driven
Community of Practice where e-Learning
designers, developers and managers can
focus on their professional development,
enhance their peer network and identify
resources for ensuring that their current
organizations e-Learning projects are
more successful.
www.elearningguild.com
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School
Improvement
Organizations
The Annenberg Institute for School
Reform at Brown University
The Annenberg Institute for School Reform
at Brown University develops, shares
and acts on knowledge that improves
the conditions and outcomes of schooling
in America, especially in urban communities
and in schools serving disadvantaged
children.
www.annenberginstitute.org
Consortium for Policy Research in
Education
Created in 1985, the Consortium for
Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
unites researchers from five of the
nation's leading research institutions
-- the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard
University, Stanford University, the
University of Michigan, and the University
of Wisconsin-Madison -- in an effort
to improve elementary and secondary
education through practical research.
www.cpre.org
UCLA Center For The Study Of Evaluation
& National Center For Research On Evaluation,
Standards, And Student Testing.
For more than 36 years, the UCLA Center
for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) and,
more recently, the National Center for
Research on Evaluation, Standards, and
Student Testing (CRESST) have been on
the forefront of efforts to improve
the quality of education and learning
in America. Located within UCLA’s Graduate
School of Education & Information Studies,
CSE/CRESST has pioneered the development
of scientifically based evaluation and
testing techniques, vigorously promoting
the accurate use of data, test scores,
and technology for improved accountability
and decision making.
www.cse.ucla.edu
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Reports
and Publications
High Time for High School Reform
Early Findings from the Evaluation of
the National School district and Network
Grants Program
http://www.gatesfoundation.org
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, based
in Washington, D.C., supports research,
publications, and action projects of
national significance in elementary/secondary
education reform, as well as significant
education reform projects in Dayton,
Ohio and vicinity. It has assumed the
work of the Educational Excellence Network.
www.edexcellence.net
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment
and Evaluation at the University of
Maryland, Department of Measurement,
Statistics and Evaluation
ERICAE is one of 16 subject-oriented
clearinghouses operated by the United
States Department of Education, Office
of Educational Research and Improvement.
Since its inception in 1966, the Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC)
has become one of the major bibliographic
databases in the world. ERIC has acquired,
reviewed, and processed more than one
million citations that policy makers,
program planners, researchers, and other
users can readily identify and obtain.
http://ericae.net
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