Distance Learning Resources and Links
Central Florida Consortium of Higher Education
Resources for Learning
About Distance Education
Last updated June 3, 1996
United States Department of Education
- This is the homepage of the United States Department of Education located in Washington DC. Links include Guides for teachers, funding opportunities, contacts, publications and links to other resources
- Educom
- This is the Web site of the distributors of the electronic newsletter, Edupage and Educom Review. It represents a Consortium of educational institutions committed to transforming education through technology
- ERIC On-Line Clearinghouse
- This site is the same ERIC as in libraries, Educational Resources Information Center. Links include those to other gopher and Web sites, AskERIC, National Parent Information Network and the National Library of Information
- FIRN Florida Education Resource Network
- This site is the homepage for the E-mail network constructed and used in Florida specifically for teachers. This site also has links to the Florida Department of Education, instructional resources and info on State and Federal government
- Florida Educator's Cyberspace Navigator
- This site is produced by a joint effort between the Florida Statewide Systemic Initiative (SSI) and the Florida Information Resource Network (FIRN). It has great links to Florida Government information
- Acronyms and Technology
- This is a glossary of commonly used technology acronyms compiled by Dr. Ann Barron of Analysis and Technology
- Useful Listservs for Online Education
- This page gives instructions and directions to subscribe to several listservs relating to technology and distance education
- Central Florida Library Consortium's List of Libraries
- This page has links to all the Central Florida Libraries' homepages
- Central Florida Computer Society
- This page has information about a great local resource with links to groups that meet about lots of software and hardware topics
- Alphabetical Index to Distance Education Clearinghouse
- This site has an index where you can click on to get to the definition list. Excellent resource.
- American Center for Study of Distance Education
- This site is from The Pennsylvania State University. It also has info on the American Journal of Distance Education edited by Michael Moore.
- International Center for Distance Learning
- This site has publications from around the world on distance learning
- Distance Education Clearing House
- This site is produced by the University of Wisconsin and has one of the best all around sites for distance learning. Further down on this page is the link to the 12th Annual Conference to be held in August.
- United States Distance Learning Association
- This site is has valuable information on distance learning practices and policy. I also has research information and statistics
- Distance Learning Directory
- This site has five pages of links! It is maintained by Howard University's Continuing Education Program. Links include general sites as well as sites for adult education, K-12, electronic classrooms, global distance learning centers, video, audi
o and research sites
- Distance Education Resource Page
- This page, maintained by the Open Learning Agency of British Columbia, has great links to Canadian and international distance learning sites. It also has a listing of other distance learning resource pages
- PBS On-Line
- This rich site contains information on PBS courses and television programs
- Distance Learning Laboratory
- This site is also from Howard University and describes the major components of the Internet Access Project
- Department of Defense Voluntary Education
- This site has good information about courses that the military offers for all the armed services. Plus it has a link to DANTES-Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support
- AT&T Center for Distance Education
- Here is a recommended link to a major corporation using distance education
- More Resources for Distance Education
- Here is yet another site full of distant learning links from the Capital Community Technical College. It has some links to classes, associations and topics such as intellectual property
- Education Network of Maine
- This page is an example of a state's initiative to coordinate distance learning within several government and education agencies
- Delaware Article about World Wide Web Campus Delivery
- This page has links to the University of Delaware's Services including photo-ID access, employee access, department of accounting and much more
- NEEDS
- National Engineering Education Delivery System. This site has a searchable database for examples of courseware used in Engineering disciplines
- World Lecture Hall
- This site is from the University of Texas and lists specific class information from around the world grouped by subject matter. There are both good and bad examples of materials used for instructional enhancement and distance delivery.
- The Web and Instruction
- This site, from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth has links to distance education resources and examples of course delivery on the Web. It also has a very useful annoted bibliography and a list of readings.
- Delivering Instruction on the World Wide Web
- This site is a hypertext paper by Thomas Fox McManus, an instructional designer from the University of Texas in Austin. His paper is a thorough, easy to read guide on topics such as hardware/software, creating Web pages, learning theory and examp
les.
- Using the Web as a Classroom
- Essay by Professor Jerrold Maddox of Penn State detailing his experience as one of the first to teach a class using the Web. His insights may be very helpful.
- Issues in Distance Education
- This site is an excellect paper written by Lorraine Sherry, a doctoral student at the University of Denver. Sherry covers recent trends in teaching and learning theory applied to many contexts of distance education
- Distance Education and the World Wide Web
- This site is a position paper by Daniel Peraya from the Faculte de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Universite de Geneve. Peraya describes the various media attributes of the Web.
- What is WebChat?
- This site is from the Internet Roundtable Society and describes WebChat
- WebChat
- This site is sponsored by the Internet Roundtable Society and has links to both the commercial and free versions of the software. It also has a Frequently Asked Question file and instructions on how to set up the software
- Internet Relay Chat
- This site is a good introduction to Internet Relay Chat (IRC). It has instructions for using IRC and server locations
- IRC, University of California
- This site is maintained by UC-Davis. It also has an introduction and server links
- MUDS, MOOS & MUSHs
- This site explains these conferencing terms and has links to how-to information and subject areas such as education, foreign language, social
- Diversity University
- This is the homepage of Diversity University which uses MOOs to conduct distance learning
- Winter Conference on Educational Uses of MUDs
- This site describes a conference held in January at the the University of Georgia in Athens
- Research Oriented Links MUDs
- This page is part of the MUD Resource Collection from the University of Pennsylvania. It has valuable links to research and papers on the use of MUDs and MOOs
- MUDs-Multiple User Dimensions
- This site is part of the Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet and describes the phenomenon of MUDs
- Frequently Asked Questions: MUDs
- This comprehensive site has detailed answers to setting up, using and protocols for MUDding
- Interactive Bibliography
- This page has a list of books, journal articles and some online resources that you can link to
- Distance Education Resource Page
- This site is from the Open University of British Columbia and has great links to associations, educational institutions and resource pages
- The Open University (United Kingdom)
- This is the site of the Open University, one of the oldest, most respected models in flexible learning. There are no classrooms in this model. The faculty and staff are located centrally.
- Virtual Online University
- Virtual Online University is a non-profit corporation offering secondary and post-secondary courses through computer mediated communication.
- University Online
- This organization supports academic institutions that wish to put their learning programs online
- On-Line Interactive Age Newspaper
- You can take a virtual tour, either automated or point and click at this site. This is also a good example of the use of Macromedia's shockwave add-on application for Web browsers
- Electronic School
- This publication comes from the National School Board Association
- Digital Video
- This page has information on what digital video is: definitions, MPEG, QuickTime and making it happen with ISDN, ATM and T1 information
- Glossaries of the Distance Education Clearinghouse
- This site has a list of glossaries for telecommunications, teleconferencing, videoconferencing and Satellingo, or how to "talk Satellite"
- Compressed Video from the Distance Education Clearinghouse
- This is a short and sweet explanation of compressed video
- Video Conferencing and the Internet
- This page, maintained by Maja Bystrom, discusses the CIPR video conferencing system
- CU-SeeMe
- This site, called Digital REST Area at SUNY Plattsburgh, has a great article with links about CU-SeeMe desktop videoconferencing hardware and software
- Getting Started with CU-SeeMe
- This page is a great introduction to what it takes to get CU-Seeme up and running on your Mac or PC. It also has the minimum hardware requirements
- Funding Sources from the Distance Education Clearinghouse
- This site has some good links to corporate and nonprofit sites
- SPIN Webpage
- This site has great links to Federal information for grants
- FEDIX Federal Information Exchange
- This site has a very specific subject listing for federal grant opportunites. You may select your areas of interests and receive information via e-mail.
- 12th Annual Conference on Distance Learning
- This site has information about the conference put on by the University of Wisconsin on Distance Teaching and Learning
- American Association of Community Colleges
- This is a leading national association for community colleges which has links to conference information, government relations info, communications, education resources
- Distance Education and Technology: Future Visions
- This is the conference announcement site for the May 6-8th conference sponsored by the International University Consortium and the University of Maryland System Institute for Distance Education
- Michigan Association of Distance Learning
- This is a nonprofit organization for persons interested in distance learning in the state of Michigan. The page lists membership, schedule of events, board members and has a link to the Michigan Information Center
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