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last updated 8.14.08
Syllabus Course Map
Guidelines Electronic Collaboration: A Practical Guide for Educators
  Distance education at a glance - a series of guides highlighting information detailed in Dr. Barry Willis' books, Distance Education–Strategies and Tools and Distance Education–A Practical Guide.
  Types of Questions
Examples Artic
  European Schoolnet
  Teaching and Learning on the Web
  World Lecture Hall Links to college level courses offered via distance learning.
Issues Next Generation Learners
  Transforming Libraries: Distance Learning
Organizations

American Center for the Study of Distance Education

  Advanced Distributed Learning Network - ADL employs a structured, adaptive, collaborative effort between the public and private sectors to develop the standards, tools and learning content for the learning environment of the future. The vision of the ADL Initiative is to provide access to the highest-quality learning and performance aiding that can be tailored to individual needs and delivered cost-effectively, anytime and anywhere.
  Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies - keeps abreast of learning trends, technologies and tools in order to help learning professionals understand them and implement them successfully in their organisations. Check out the top 10 and 100 tools
  Distance Education and Training Council - The DETC is a voluntary, non-governmental, educational organization that operates a nationally recognized accrediting association, the DETC Accrediting Commission.
 

Distance Education Clearinghouse - 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.

  International Centre for Distance Education -
  The American Distance Education Consortium - a non-profit distance education consortium composed of approximately 65 state universities and land-grant colleges.
  US Distance Learning Association (USDLA) - serves the needs of the distance learning community by providing advocacy, information, networking and opportunity.
Evaluation Evaluating Online Learning: Challenges and Strategies for Success (2008) This publication features seven evaluations of online learning programs or resources. The evaluations represent variety both in method of evaluation and in the program or resource that was examined.
  The ASTD e-learning Handbook: Best Pratices, Strategies, and Case Studies for an Emerging Field
Research Distance Learning Journals
  Theory and Research Links
Strategies Five Models of Course Redesign (NCAT)
  Distance Learning and the WWW
  Strategies to Enhance Adult Motivation to Learn
Theories Theory and Practice of Online Learning