More Information Resources
On the Horizon
This website provides a forum that (1) explores the implications
of a fast changing world on educational organizations and processes,
and (2) examines ways to use information technology tools in educational
organizations and programs more effectively. There are useful articles
on the site to assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating
information technology tools in teaching and in managing educational
organizations.
Distance Education
Clearing House
Managed and maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Extension,
in cooperation with its partners and other UW institutions, the Distance
Education Clearinghouse is a virtual library of links to a variety of distance
education resources, including news, conferences, online newsletters, and
funding and legislative updates. Other sections of the site provide links
to programs resources and courses (certification programs, innovative learning
approaches, and a Collaborative Nursing Program); technologies (interactive
systems and network, video, and satellite learning links); general reference
tools (dictionaries, glossaries, basic information, and FAQs on distance
education); and places and services (links to organizations, distance learning
institutions, online help, and other services). The site is searchable but
also includes an alphabetical index and a list of newly added items. Numerous
links regarding defining distance education resources are found in How
to find World Wide Web Distance Education Resources by Michele M. Jacques.
Faculty Development
Issue
A program of faculty development created by Honolulu Community
College to provide information, training, forums, connections, and other
support services and activities. The program revitalizes the faculty, strengthens
the college, improves the quality of instruction, and helps the college
better serve the community.
Faculty Training Issue
The "Sitetrainer" provides educators with and online forum about
products, platforms, and course delivery resources available for online
teaching and training, and online teaching tips.
Web Based Learning Resources
Library
This web page is an educator's resource for delivery and management
of education via the Internet. Topics include Quality Criteria, Web Based
Education Development Tools, Legal and Copyright Issues Affecting Distance
Education, Technical Support for Web-based Education and a lot more.
On-Line Journal of
Distance Learning Administration
Archive of on-line articles and researches with specific focus
or implications for the management of distance education programs.
Learning Design:
Virtual
University
Virtual U (VU) says it is the world's first higher education simulation
and learning tool. It claims to be a powerful, convenient, and user-friendly
software tool that models the attitudes and behaviors of an academic community.
“Players” and “game” are used to describe features of the software tool.
Academia and programmers can learn from the project’s unique modeling engine.
It requires site licenses cost with a maximum cost of $20K per site. The
website includes an article describing how VU was introduced to Penn undergraduates
by setting up a competition to see who could run the best simulated university.
Internet
Curriculum
Maintained by CUNY Lehman College. It provides educators with useful
links regarding web page design, web page development tools, books, K-12
distance education projects and connections, internet guides, on-line development
tools and many other distance education resources. The list of links is
suitable for those who are interested in designing on-line courses because
it provides a flow of full and easy-to-search information including criteria
and good examples.
Evaluation for Distance Educators
Introduce purpose, types, methods, tips and contents of evaluation
for distance educators.
The TeleLearning
Infosource
Created by the Telis Foundation, a California statewide project
that envisions the use of progressive multimedia technologies to deliver
multi-sensory learning opportunities to people of all ages. Resources include
'Learning Library', 'Edzines', and 'Charter/Home Schooling' that expose
distance learners to a wide range of libraries, journals, magazines. Its
goal is to empower readers through technology.
Distance at A Glance
"In order to help teachers, administrators, facilitators, and students
understand distance education, Barry Willis, the Associate Dean for Outreach
and the Engineering Outreach staff [at the University of Idaho] present the
following series of guides highlighting information detailed in Dr. Willis'
books, Distance Education - Strategies and Tools and Distance Education - A
Practical Guide. Further use of the guides as well as links to them may be
approved by Engineering Outreach Administration." Also see http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/dist8.html
Outcomes
and Assessment:
SUNY at Albany Office of Institutional Research
SyllabusWeb
Syllabus Magazine includes feature articles, case studies, product
reviews, and profiles of technology use at the instructor, departmental,
and institutional levels. "Syllabus' mission is to inform educators
on how technology can be used to support their teaching, learning, and
administrative activities. Each issue includes feature articles, case
studies, product reviews, and profiles of technology use at the individual,
departmental, and institutional level. Regular features cover multimedia,
distance learning, the Internet, quantitative tools, publishing, and administrative
technology. A variety of platforms are covered; among them, computers,
video, multimedia, and telecommunications equipment."
Program Evaluation:
Intellectual Property Rights:
Who Owns Online Courses and Course Materials?
The U.S. Copyright Study on Distance Education
PBS Adult Learning Service satellite conference on Intellectual Property
Articles on
Copyrights and Fairuse
Managed by Stanford University libraries. It provide links to individual
articles, publications, current legislation, copyright resources on the
Internet and copyright law. Annotated bibliography is included.
World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an international
organization dedicated to promoting the use and protection of works of the
human spirit. It provides regulations on international industrial property
(i.e., inventions -- patents, trademark, industrial designs and geographical
indication) and copyright.
CyberSpace Law Center
This site is designed to be an evolving resource for those interested
in legal issues concerning cyberspace.
A
Selective List of Copyright Do's and Don'ts for Distance Education Produced
by Dr. F. J. Dolak of Ball State University, this is a list of material that
distance educators can or cannot use without obtaining copyright permissions.
It covers books, CD-ROMs, music, motion pictures, current newspaper, poems,
and so forth. However, the fair use of Internet resources is not included.
Copyright Considerations
in Distance Education and Technology-Mediated Instruction
Written by Kenneth D. Salomon. "The White Paper provides an overview
of copyright law 4, including a discussion of the exclusive rights enjoyed
by copyright owners and the limitations on those rights by certain exceptions
and defenses. It describes current efforts in Washington that may result
soon in a specific exception designed to promote distance education through
digital technologies. It discusses trends in electronic course ownership
policies. And it examines the liability of a higher education institution
for the infringing actions of its students, faculty, and staff."
Copyright Office Study on Distance Education
"On October 28, 1998, H.R. 2281, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
was enacted into law. Section 403 requires that the Copyright Office consult
with representatives of copyright owners, nonprofit educational institutions,
and nonprofit libraries and archives, and thereafter submit to Congress recommendations
on how to promote distance education through digital technologies, including
interactive digital networks, while maintaining an appropriate balance between
the rights of copyright owners and the interests of users. Such recommendations
may include legislative changes." On this website the Copyright Office
posts copies of all public notices, written comments, The Office's Report on
Copyright and Digital Distance Education and other material relevant to the
distance education study whenever available.
Copyright Issues Related
to Distance Learning and Multimedia Development
Created by Southern Illinois University, this site has a list of
links to numerous rescues that can be used as tools when developing materials
for distance education. Categories include General Copyright Information,
Distance Education, Multimedia Issues, and Electronic Reserve.
Distance
Education Resource Center -- Copyright Info
Maintained by Waton College of Business, University of Arkansas,
this site provides a list of information regarding copyright.
Distance
Learning and Copyright
An article written by Laura Gasaway, director of the Law Library
and professor of law at the University of North Carolina. "The article
addresses the current state of the law in the United States regarding distance
learning and copyright law. It focuses on how the limitation and exemptions
to that law found in Section 107 (fair use), Section 110(1) (the classroom
exemption) and Section 110(2) (instructional broadcasting) affect distance
education... Currently, there are pending amendments that would redefine
the meaning of face-to-face teaching in U.S. law to make it much easier
to use copyrighted works in distance learning to parallel uses in the traditional
classroom. Additionally, this article also discusses providing library services
to distance learners". Suggested online resources related to copyright
affecting distance education is included at the end. Please go to Distance
Learning and Copyright: Is a Solution in Sight? for another article
by Laura Gasaway.
Copyright and Distance
Education
Provides links related to copyright law, conference on fair use,
court cases, copyright and fair use tools, university policies, bibliography
of useful references, and general distance education resources.
Informational Technology and Disabilities:
New York Times, "For the Disabled, Barriers to Online Study"
Organizations:
The American Center
for the Study of Distance Education (ACSDE)
Established in 1988, the center aims to become a network of scholars
who have a common interest in studying, teaching, and doing research in
the field of distance education. The ACSDE has become a hub for the dissemination
of distance education information through both a printed and electronic
journal and other publications. There are many useful resource links on
this website.
CETUS (Consortium for Educational Technology
in University System) is "a consortium of the State University of
New York (SUNY), the California State University System, and the City University
of New York (CUNY) formed to explore a variety of initiatives in technology-assisted
teaching, learning, and research". Currently the organization is conducting
projects on such issues as copyrights, library, and ownership related to distance
education.
EDUCAUSE
This organization intends to help shape and enable transformational
change in higher education through the introduction, use,and management
of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship,
research, and institutional management. Employment posting related to
higher education information technology is available on the website.
General Information:
Implementation, Intellectual Property Rights, Instructional Resources, Challenges and more
American Distance Education Consortium - Online Resources
International List of Journals and Newsletters Regarding Distance Education
Distance Education Clearinghouse
Resources
for Distance Education
A list maintained by Professor Charles Darling, Capital Community
College, Hartford, CT. Resources include online journals, projects, organizations,
technologies, intellectual property connections related to distance education.
Inventio
Inventio is a project of the Division of Instructional Improvement
and Intructional Technologies (DoIII) at George Mason University. The journal's
name - inventio - is taken from the first of the five arts of classical
rhetoric: thinking out the subject, identifying the issue at question, exploring
the means of persuasion. The journal aims to become a source of this kind
of creative thinking about learning and teaching.
Distance
Education Issues
Created and maintained by Athabascau University, the Canadian university
that pioneered distance education in Canada. The website orients readers
to a sample of the special interest issues found in distance education which
in some cases travel beyond those issues. Contents include issues of quality
in distance education, distance education reports, copyright issues, aboriginal
studies, adaptive technologies, adult education, gender etc.
Educational Technologies and Distance
Education Biliograph
A list of reference books relevant to educational technologies
and distance education.
Virtual
University Journal
A journal that provides an arena for the publication of papers
relating to research, innovative thinking and/or practice in the field of
distance learning. Subscription if required.