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Distance Education Links

Distance Education Clearinghouse

The Distance Education Clearinghouse, managed by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, 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.

Resources on Distance Education and the Use of Technology in Instruction

This web site is managed by the University of Tennessee, Memphis, distance education office and includes resources on distance education and the use of technology in instruction. 

University of Idaho 

This link provides a profile of a typical distance education student.

The Wellspring

This is a virtual community of distance educators on the Web. It offers free workshops which are held in asynchronous discussion forums. The workshops are designed to help participants learn specific skills that figure prominently in distance learning and instructional design. Registration is through the homepage. Once a workshop has ended, the content is kept in the threaded discussion forums area. Recent summer workshops included Teaching My First Online Course: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Evaluating Online Courses: A Series of Self-Guided and Group Web Tours.

International Council for Open and Distance Education

Founded just before the Second World War (1938), ICDE provides a forum where distance education institutions and professionals can meet in order to discuss important issues, learn from each other and enter into partnerships and business ventures with each other.

The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C)

Formerly the site for asynchronous learning networks (ALN), which are people networks for anytime - anywhere learning .  ALN combines self-study with substantial, rapid, asynchronous interactivity with others. In ALN learners use computer and communications technologies to work with remote learning resources.

Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration

This is a link to the journal issue dated Summer 1998, Volume 1, Number 2.  It has a number of interesting articles on distance education.

American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)

ADEC is an international consortium of state and land grant institutions providing economic distance education programs and services via the latest and most appropriate information technologies.