General Research Resources

Online

• APA Resources
  APA Style Reference Site.
• APA Resources
  APA Style Reference Site.
• Developmental Theories
  Vygotsky's Developmental Theories and the Adulthood of Computer Mediated Communication: a Comparison and an Illumination.
• Distance Education: The Challenge for a Multicultural Society.
  Here is a good link that combines distance education and diversity issues.
• Diversity and Pluralism
  This Michigan State University Extension site provides text of numerous publication dealing with diverse issues of education.
• Issues, Affirmative Action
  This is a links page with lots of articles about Affirmative Action.
• USA Today Issues
  Todays USA Today (February 28) has a series of interesting articles about language issues, including:
  1. Consumers frustrated by verbal gridlock
  2. Survival 101: Learning English
  3. Language and accent bias cases are growing
  4. Americans "irritated" by non-English speakers
  5. Language Proficiency Affects - the workplace/transportation safety/the political climate
• Communication Studies: Gender and Race in Media
  Excellent resource for media literacy
• Thresholds in Education-Friere
  Issues in Freirean Pedagogy by Tom Heaney
• Gender and Computers
  
• Gender, Technology, and Computer Culture
  This is the syllabus for Sherry Turkle's course at MIT. It contains links to resources.
• United States Race and Ethnicity Resources
  List of links.
• Resources for Diversity
  List of links.
• Multicultural Internet Links
  List of links.
• World Cultures
  Internet Resources for World Cultures
• John December
  The December List. Information Sources about Computer Mediated Communication and the Internet.
• Publications from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education
  Contains links to the complete text versions of these publications.
• Educate America: A Call for Equity in School Reform
  Explores why schools cannot be improved unless the reforms relate to issues of equity.
• The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
  The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) research center with its focus on various issues of electronic media.
• The Web as Forum
  Explores the use of the Web as a gathering place for like-minded people to meet and exchange ideas.
• More Than Just Hype:
  The World Wide Web as a Tool for Education.
• The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning
  This was a workshop exploring network technology in learning in the future. Papers presented are available here.
• Networked Learning Interactivity
  Using Networked Learning, the learner can interact with the tutor and other learners. This creates a more effective learning situation through collaborative learning processes. and a more motivating learning experience.
• Networked Learning Page 1
  Networked Learning uses computer networking to bring learning to the learner, by creating electronic classrooms, available anywhere, anytime. It is a mature and implementable learning process and a proven answer to major challenges now facing education and training.
• Computer-Based Learning
  Computer-based learning has many desirable traits from a distance education perspective. It is able to deliver an instructional programme that is both time and place independent giving the mode high levels of both interactivity and learner independence.
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
  This page contains information about ISTE and a list of links.
• Developing interactive course materials.
  Paper presented at the ASCILITE Conference in 1995 by Peter K. Love and Maree V. GosperSchool of Earth Sciences and Centre for Higher Education and Professional Development Macquarie University
• Top Ten Distance Education Sites
  According to the Annenberg/CPB Project.
• Bilingual Education
  
• Bilingual Education Fact Sheet
  
• "Bilingual Education Resources on the Internet".
  
• CLNET
  
• La Clase Magica
  
• Longman Dictionaries
  
• Los Angeles Educational Partnership
  
• Models and Applications of Bilingual Programming
  
• Sioux Heritage
  
• The Rice School/La Escuela Rice: A New Way of Learning in HISD
  
• Tounge-tied in the Schools
  
• Bilingual Education a Documented Failure
  

Books and Journals

• Books on Distance Education
  From Dr. McIsaac's class Distance Education: Theory and Practice
• Distance Education JournalsFrom Dr. McIsaac's class Distance Education: Theory and Practice
• ISTE Publications
  International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) publications.
• STANDARDS
  An International Journal of Multicultural Studies

Other

• OMH-RC: Organizations and Programs
  Searchable databases the Minority Health Organizations and Programs.

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