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
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
American Association for Higher Education, Technology Projects
World Conference of the International Council for Open and Distance Education
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
DiscoverWare
Lotus Learning Space
http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/learnspace/
TopClass
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
First Class
Web Board
ClassPoint
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
Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Cyberschool
http://cyber.harvard.edu/metaschool.html
State University of New York: SUNY Learning
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
World Lecture Hall
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/
The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
The Education Resource List
http://www.findmail.com/listsaver/edresource/
Syllabus Web
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
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