Distance Education Research Resources
Online
- Distance
Education
This is a chapter written by Marina Stock McIsaac and Charlotte Nirmalani
Gunawardena from the following:
Jonassen, D. (Ed.). (1997). Handbook for research
on educational communications and technology. Scholastic Press, New
York, NY.
- EDUCATION FOR ALL THROUGH ELECTRONIC DISTANCE EDUCATION by Peter T. Knight. The digital revolution is driving major changes
in the way education is produced and delivered. Sharp and continued falls
in the cost of storing, manipulating, and transmitting information are
interacting with rising relative costs of traditional education and increasing
demand for life-long educational services.
- Mindweave
- Youngblood's
Metadesign
This is a great link to Youngblood's paper on his concept called "metadesign"
which examines the revolution in communication as that of context rather
than content. Makes great reading!
- Internet Distance Education Resources
From Dr. McIsaac's class Distance Education: Theory and Practice
- The "No
Significant Difference" Phenomenon.
Russell, T.L.(1997).
- Distance
Education at a Glance
Here's a marvelous resource from the University of Idaho. To help teachers,
administrators, facilitators, and students understand distance education,
Dr. Barry Willis, the Engineering Outreach Director, and his staff have
developed series of short on-line articles. Barry Willis is the editor
of the text that Dr. McIsaac uses in her DE Theory and Practice course.
- EdWeek
This is the home page for Education Week Online.
- Dealing
with Diversity: Some Propositions from Canadian Education
Full-text of: Levin, B. & Riffel, J. (1994). Dealing with diversity: Some
propositions from canadian education. Education Policy Analysis Archives.
2,2.
- WestEd
This site is from Bill, he says it is a good site for issues.
- Instructional Technology Foundations
Historical Timelines Project Distance Education through Technology (1960's
to Present)
- Distance Ed
links from the University of Colorado at Denver School of Education
- Open
and Distance Learning Critical Success Factors
Searchable collection of abstracts.
- ACSDE
The American Center for the Study of Distance Education
- On-line
education: A new domain
- Delivering Instruction on the World Wide Web
Paper by Thomas Fox McManus, University of Texas at Austin
- Lucent Technologies
- CEDL
Luvcent Technologies Center for Excellence in Distance Learning
- World Wide Web
Sites
This page contains links to Distance Education programs, institutions,
and research.
- Innovations
in Distance Education Program
AT&T joined with Penn state to examine the guiding principles and practices
for effective distance education, and institution's policies. The links
to readings, and Policy Symposium are useful places to start.
- Computer
Mediated Communication
John December's page and magazine
- Distance Education Resource Page
There are many excellent resources and this Canadian one is but one example.
- International Centre
for Distance learning (ICDL)
This database is perhaps the best known resource database.
- Distance Education
Resources...
This is an index page which has links to pages in these categories: Online
Resources and Indices, Conferences and Workshops, Companies and Related
Products, Usenet News and Discussion Lists, K-12 Correspondence and Home-School,
Adult Correspondence and Non-Credit, US and International Universities.
Each of these areas leads to a page of links.
- Education for all Through Distance Education
paper by Peter T. Knight, Chief of the National Economic Management Division
of the Economic Development Institute at The World Bank
- Using Technology
in Teaching
Site which contains many distance education links.
- The Evolution
of Distance Learning
August 95 presentation by Edward F. Spodick of Hong Kong University of
Science & Technology Library Presented. Links updated 31 January, 1996
- Distance Education
Sources
List of global Distance Education sources.
- The Online
Chronicle of Distance Education and Communication
The Chronicle appears semi-annually and includes abstracts, short articles,
announcements, conference listings, and an information exchange all related
to distance education and communication.
- The TeleTraining
Institute's Distance Education Primer
Recent telecommunications developments, particularly integrated voice,
video and data systems, as well as satellite and compression technologies,
have made distance education a viable alternative to improving access to
educational opportunities for learners of all ages, at all levels and in
diverse environments.
- SyllabusWeb
SyllabusWeb is a free searchable service from Syllabus Press, publishers
of Syllabus magazine and producers of the annual Syllabus conference. This
site contains useful information on technologies used to enhance education.
- Distance
Education in Africa: Bringing the Classroom across the World
Paper dealing with the development of the African Virtual University (AVU).
- AusWeb95
First Australian World Wide Web Conference with links to the presentations
given.
- AusWeb96
Second Australian World Wide Web Conference with links to the presentations
given.
- Online Educational
Resources
Part of the mission of the High Performance Computing and Communications
program is to foster increased use of new computer and networking technologies
to help support accelerated learning programs in education . These rough
listings provide pointers to some online resources for students and educators,
as well as to projects that address these goals.
- As We May Think
by Dr. Vannevar Bush urges scientists to turn to the massive task of making
our existing knowledge more accessible.
- Horizon
List Archives
Horizon List is a moderated listserv. The purpose of Horizon List is to
encourage discussion about emerging issues, trends, events in the social,
technological, economic, environmental, and political sectors of the macroenvironment
(national/global levels) that will affect education--elementary and secondary
schools as well as colleges and universities.
- The
Future of Learning
Paper presented at the Minister's Forum on Adult Learning - Edmonton, Alberta
- On-line Conferencing
Books and Journals
- Burge, E. J. (1994). Electronic highway or weaving loom?
Thinking about conferencing technologies for learning. Information Analyses
Univ. of New Brunswick. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 377
814. )
- Filipczak, B. "Putting the Learning into Distance
Learning." TRAINING 32, no. 10 (October 1995)
111-118. (EJ 511 253)
- Hofstede, Geert (1991). Cultures and Organizations: Software
of the Mind. McGraw-Hill
Book Company, 279p.
- Holmberg, B. (1989). Theory and practice of distance
education. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Jeffries, C., Lewis, R., Meed, J., & Merritt, R. (1990).
The A-Z of open learning. Cambridge, UK: National Extension College.
- Jones, L. R. (1992). Global Agency for Distance Education
(GADE). International version of brochure
outlining GADE services, Tokyo.
- Koul, B.N. and Jenkins, J. (1990) Distance Education.
A Spectrum of Case Studies; International
Extension College and Indira Gandhi National Open University; Kogan Page
Publ., 253p.
- Kerka, Sandra (1997, April 12) Distance Learning, the
Internet, and the World Wide Web. (Online:
) ERIC Digest (ED395214
96).
- Khan, B. H. (Ed.). (1997). Web-based instruction.
New Jersey: Educational Technology Publications.
On-Line
- Knott, T. D. (1993). Determining Societal Needs for Distance
Education in Tomorrow's Global Village;
Educational Media International, vol. 29, no. 3, p. 162-64
- Mason, R. and Kaye, A. (1989). Mindweave: Communication,
Computers and Distance Education. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Full text
of Mindweave
- Roberts, J.M. & Keough, E.M. (Eds.). (1995). Why the
information highway? Lessons from open and distance learning. Toronto,
Ontario, Canada: Trifolium Books.
- Stull, J. B. and Von Till, B. (1995). Hofstede's Dimensions
of Culture as Measurements of Student
Ethnocentrism: A Quasi-experimental Study. Western States Communication
Association,
February 10-14, 38p.
- Wulf, K. "Training via the Internet: Where Are We?"
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 50, no. 5
(May 1996): 50-55.
- The American Journal of Distance Education
- Distance Education
- ICDE Bulletin
- Journal of Distance Education
- Open Learning
- Research in Distance Education
- Teaching at a Distance
- Web list of Distance Education Journals
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