Personnel Development and Distance Education

Ann Hains, Pat Snyder, Mary Jane Rapport, Jane O'Brien

June 6, 2000

New SCRIPT Faculty Institute

Flat Rock, NC

References

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Resources

1. In our session, Diane Smith Grych mentioned a training program she found useful. Here is information for ordering it.

Jamsa, K. (1998). Rescued by personal computers. Gulf Publishing Company.

(ISBN 1-884133-54-1) (Applications are for Microsoft Office and Windows 98.)

Order information: Gulf Publishing Company

Cost: $24.95 Book Division

P. O. Box 2608

Houston, TX 77252-2608

http://www.gulfpub.com

2. Mary Jane Rapport suggested these resources.

106 S. 770 is the 1999 Telehealth Act detailing Medicare reimbursement of telehealth services.

Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), US Department of Health and Human Services, 5600 Fishers Lane, RM 11A55, Rockville, MD 20857

3. From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

The Online Teaching Guide (Allyn & Bacon, 1999)

Designing and Teaching an On-Line Course (Allyn & Bacon, 1999)

The Wired Professor: A Guide to Incorporating the World Wide Web in College Instruction (New York University Press, 1999)

Online Resources

1. Several people were interested in the budget template for grants that UW-Madison’s Research & Sponsored Programs has developed at their Website. Available:

http://www.rsp.wisc.edu/index.html

2. This is a Website that contains information on the relationship between Medicaid and telemedicine.

http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/telemed.htm

3. The Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology is one of the newest how-to guides for building virtual classrooms. It was developed by the University of Maryland’s University College and it is designed to be used by instructors anywhere.

http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching

4. The Distance Education links listed below are found in the article (see Table 3 with hypertext links).

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

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

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