Hains, A. H., Conceição-Runlee, S., Caro, P., Marchel, M. A. (1999). Collaborative course development in early childhood special education through distance learning. Early Childhood Research to Practice [On-line], 1(1), Available: http://ecrp.uiuc.edu.

Table 3. Online Resources.

Distance Education

General Distance Education Information

http://www.athena.edu/Links/Distance.html

http://dist-ed.tamu.edu/resources.html

Distance Education Clearinghouse

http://www.uwex.edu/disted/

Asynchronous and Distance Learning Bookmarks

http://twilight.vtc.vsc.edu/distance/committee/bookmarks.htm

Lists of Distance Education Resources for the Study of Special Education

http://141.218.70.183/SPEDdistedwww/introdistedsped.html

Resources on Distance Education and the Use of Technology in Instruction

http://www.utmem.edu/disted/deresource.html

Annotated Distance Education Resources on the Web

http://www.aed.org/ndl/disted/disted.html

Distance and Alternative Education Resources

http://www.beaulib.dtx.net/study.html

University of Idaho Web Site’s Short Guides for Distance Education

http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/distglan.html

The Wellspring: A Virtual Community of Distance Educators on the Web

http://wellspring.isinj.com/

American Association for Higher Education, Technology Projects

http://www.aahe.org/

World Conference of the International Council for Open and Distance Education

http://www.icde.org/

National Center on Education Statistics: Report on Distance Education

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/distance/index.html

Instructional Technology Resources

http://www.inform.umd.edu/TeachTech/itech.html

Web-Based Course Development Tools

Note: The Distance Educator home page has many of these resources listed and linked in a central directory.

(http://www.distance-educator.com/coursdev.html)

CourseWeb

http://www.courseweb.org/

DiscoverWare

http://www.discoverware.com/

Lotus Learning Space

http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/learnspace/

TopClass

http://www.wbtsystems.com/

Virtual-U

http://virtual-u.cs.sfu.ca/vuweb/

Web Course in a Box (WCB)

http://www.madduck.com/wcbinfo.html

WebCT

http://homebrew1.cs.ubc.ca/webct/

Other Resources for Web-Based Instruction and Conferencing

Instructional Management Systems

http://www.imsproject.org/

First Class

http://www.softarc.com/

Web Board

http://webboard.ora.com/

ClassPoint

http://www.wpine.com/

Videoconferencing for Learning

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/vidconf/

Commercial Web Conferencing Software

http://thinkofit.com/webconf/#commercial/

Free Web Conferencing Software

http://thinkofit.com/webconf/#freeware/

Web-Based Instruction Software

http://starbase.monmouth.edu/~cgrzesik/webased.html

http://vetter.cmsfac.uncwil.edu/~vetter/online-course-talk/software.html

Course Management Software Comparison Sites (Review and analysis of Web-based instruction software listed above.)

http://www.ctt.bc.ca/landonline/

http://www.umanitoba.ca/ip/tools/courseware/

http://node.on.ca/tfl/integrated/eye/

Selected Examples of Internet-Based Programs from Institutions of Higher Education

Virtual Universities: An Overview. Chronicle of Higher Education, Information Technology

http://chronicle.com/infotech/

Connecticut State University System: OnlineCSU

http://www.csu.ctstateu.edu/onlinecsu/

Florida Gulf Coast University

http://www.fgcu.edu/

Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Cyberschool

http://cyber.harvard.edu/metaschool.html

State University of New York: SUNY Learning

http://sln1.suny.edu/sln/

University of Southern California’s Andreus Gerontology Center Graduate Program

http://www.usc.edu/go/AgeWorks/

University of Texas System: The University of Texas Telecampus

http://www.uol.com/telecampus/

Course Preparation Resources

Instructional Technology Resources

http://www.inform.umd.edu/TeachTech/itech.html

National Teaching and Learning Forum Home Page

http://www.ntlf.com/

World Lecture Hall

http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/

The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences

http://n2h2.com/KOVACS/

The Education Resource List

http://www.findmail.com/listsaver/edresource/

Syllabus Web

http://www.syllabus.com/

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

http://www.aace.org/

Student Support Resources

TeacherNet: The Student Teacher Resource Page

http://www.infs.com/presenters/softlist.html

Online Educational Resources: Federal Government Educational Resources on the Internet

http://www.ed.gov/EdRes/EdFed/index.html