Here is an extensive list of resources on various aspects of distance learning.The best way to find information on these or any other topics is to conduct a search using the search tool below. You should also visit our site Journals, Links and Resources for more resources. Categories include:
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California Considers Open Digital Textbooks:“In what could be a first-of-its-kind statewide initiative, California education leaders are working together to compile a list of free, open digital textbooks that meet state-approved standards and will be available to high school math and science classes this fall.” “At the request of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Secretary of Education Glen Thomas will work with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell and State Board of Education President Ted Mitchell to develop the list of standards-aligned, open educational resources. The advisory report is scheduled to be released by Aug. 10. Currently, there is no statewide review of ninth- through 12th-grade instructional materials in California, said Tom Adams, director of the curriculum frameworks and instructional resources division of the California Department of Education. There is, however, a textbook adoption process in place for kindergarten through eighth grade.” . . .Website | |
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Campus Computing Survey:(2003) by Kenneth Green. Results from the largest continuing annual study of the role of information technology at higher education institutions. Looks at how campus planning and policy affect the role of information technology in teaching, learning, and scholarship. Web Site | |
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Can Computer-based Testing Achieve Quality and Efficiency in Assessment?: | |
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Can Distance Education be Mainstreamed?:(2005) by Dr. Modupe E. Irele. The results of a study of written distance education policies in four land grant universities challenge the implied widespread acceptance and integration of distance education into the educational mainstream. Web Site | |
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Can You Hear Me Now? Communicating Library Services to Distance Education Students and Faculty:(2005) by Martina Nicholas and Melba Tomeo. This study of library web sites at 100 distance learning institutions seeks to establish a checklist of best practice in terms of library resources and services provided and to establish a template for the effective distance education gateway. Web Site | |
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Can You Hear Us Now? Connecting Minority-Serving Institutions in the West to U.S. Advanced Cyberinfrastructure:(August 2007) Lariat Summit on Minority Institutions and Cyberinfrastructure in the West This white paper is the result of the 2006 Lariat Summit, a forum that convened over 40 leaders from the fields of science, education, and cyberinfrastructure to develop strategies and recommendations for connecting minority-serving institutions in the West to national broadband networks. This document is a first step towards developing both the will and the resources to ensure that minority-serving institutions are among the “connected” institutions in the West. Web site |
Career and Technical Education in the United States: 1990-2005:This report looks at CTE offerings, who participates in CTE, what types of CTE students take, who teaches CTE, and the labor market and further education outcomes attained by CTE participants. The report documents that between 1990 and 2005, the number of CTE credits earned by public high school graduates remained steady, despite the national trend of increased academic coursetaking in high school. The report also found that at both the high school and college level, student participation increased in the occupational areas of health care and computer science, and decreased in business. Other highlights include: - Just over 90 percent of public high school graduates from the class of 2005 took at least one occupational course in high school. About one in five graduates took at least three courses within one of the 18 CTE occupational program areas. - Among the public high school class of 1992, the more occupational credits that graduates earned in high school, the lower were their postsecondary enrollment rates eight years after graduating. Nevertheless, 70 percent of the most intensive occupational course takers (those earning four or more occupational credits) in high school had enrolled in postsecondary education by 2000. - Among students who started postsecondary education in 1995-96, 70 percent of CTE completers working in 2001 reported their job was related to their field of study. - Thirty-nine percent of employed adults participated in work-related courses in 2004-05, with business, health, and computer science being the most common subjects. Website | |
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Cats in the Classroom: Online Learning in Hybrid Space:(2005) Michelle M. Kazmer. Examining the online classroom as "hybrid space" - comprising physical and online space - reveals a more complex reality than a seamless learning environment. Students and instructors share a learning experience, but they also occupy local environments that influence their learning and indirectly influence the experience of everyone in the online class. Web Site | |
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CCNMTL Enhanced – Teaching and Technology:A compilation of trends and findings on the Internet (Noted), use examples (Solutions) and in-depth explorations (Primers) related to technology use in education. Entries are compiled by the staff of the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. Website | |
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Cell Phone College Class Opens in Japan:(November 2007) by Yuri Kageyama. "Japanese already use cell phones to shop, read novels, exchange e-mail, search for restaurants and take video clips. Now, they can take a university course. Cyber University , the nation's only university to offer all classes only on the Internet, began offering a class on mobile phones Wednesday on the mysteries of the pyramids.” Web site | |
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Challenge to the Kindle:(July 6, 2009) by Doug Lederman “The slow but inexorable move to electronic textbooks, accelerated by the emergence of e-readers like Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader, holds great promise for students who are visually impaired. Digital formats can easily be transferred into audio recordings or texts printed in Braille, avoiding the piecemeal system by which most colleges' disability resource centers turn individual textbooks into versions that are accessible to the blind.” “But instead of welcoming May's news that numerous colleges were experimenting with Amazon's Kindle DX as a way to bring digital textbooks to their students, advocates for the visually impaired are strenuously objecting to it. The National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind filed a lawsuit last month against Arizona State University, saying that its plan to use the Kindle to distribute books to students is illegal because blind people cannot use the device as currently configured. (The groups also asked the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice to examine the Kindle deployments planned by the five other colleges.) The Kindle DX has built-in technology that translates digital books into audio, but users can get to that feature only through on-screen menus that are not accessible to the blind.” . . . Web site Also see “Lawsuit says ASU Discriminates by Using E-books,” by Melissa Blasius July 2, 2009, 12 News - http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2009/07/02/20090702kindlelawsuit07022009-CR.html | |
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Changing the Game: What Happens When Video Games Enter the Classroom?:(2005) Kurt Squire. The author's findings about the benefits of and obstacles to the implementation of video games in the classroom are based on his own attempt to use Civilization III in high school history classes. He argues that rather than thinking about how to design good games for the existing K-12 educational system, educators should focus their energies on how to design an educational system flexible enough to accommodate video games. Web Site | |
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Characteristics of Adult Learners With Implications for Online Learning Design:(April 2008) by Kathleen Cercone. The online educational environment is increasingly being used by adults and should be designed based on the needs of adult learners. This article discusses andragogy, an important adult learning theory, and reviews three other adult learning theories: self-directed learning, experiential learning, and transformational learning. During this discussion, the theories are examined for the ways in which they may be applied to the design of online learning environments. In addition, the characteristics of adult learners are examined, and an analysis of how these characteristics influence the design of an online learning environment is presented. Recommendations follow regarding how to design an online classroom environment while considering the application of adult learning theories. Web site | |
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Chart: Who Participates And What People Are Doing Online:from Forrester Research. Classifies the number of Web users as creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators and inactives.Web site | |
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Charting the Course and Tapping the Community: The EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning Challenges 2009:. . . “Keeping faculty one step ahead of emerging technologies — and providing them with the support to manage what often feels like a rising tide of new tools and learning research — can indeed be difficult. Managing the widening gulf between early adopters and less technologically savvy faculty can be downright frustrating. And then there’s the delicate balance between promoting technology tools and encouraging teaching and learning with technology.” . . . Top Five Challenges: 1. Creating Learning Environments That Promote Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Collaborative Learning, and Knowledge Creation 2. Developing 21st-Century Literacies (Information, Digital, and Visual) among Students and Faculty 3. Reaching and Engaging Today’s Learners 4. Encouraging Faculty Adoption and Innovation in Teaching and Learning with IT 5: Advancing Innovation in Teaching and Learning with Technology in an Era of Budget Cuts “EDUCAUSE developed a social network dedicated to the project using Ning (http://tlchallenges09.ning.com/) and invited participants to create unique profiles and “join” the community. Within the interface, members could create working groups, post blog entries, start discussion threads, or simply add photos from their campus. Wikis were selected as the “workspace” for the project, a central home for all the resources generated around each challenge.” . . . “The wikis, housed on the EDUCAUSE website (http://www.educause.edu/wiki/TLChallenges09), offer a place for community members to share content around each challenge, including multimedia (such as a webcast with faculty discussing institutional responses to the budget crisis), suggested readings, or “community snapshots” (brief examples of how institutions are responding to the challenges). Each wiki contribution includes the name of a contact person, helping to develop the most important resource of all: peer-to-peer engagement. As the project grows, these wikis are becoming the online repository for the community’s ideas.” Website | |
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Cheating in Online Student Assessment: Beyond Plagiarism:(2004) by Neil Rowe. Educators have paid attention to preventing plagiarism, but not enough to other problems of dishonesty in online assessment. The author surveys the other problems that can occur and what can be done about them. Web Site | |
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Cheating in the Digital Age: Do Students Cheat More in Online Courses?:(Spring 2010) by George Watson, and James Sottile, Marshall University With the assistance of the Internet and related technologies, students today have many more ways to be academically dishonest than students a generation ago. With more and more Internet based course offerings, the concern is whether cheating will increase as students work and take tests away from the eyes of instructors. While the research on academic dishonesty in general is quite extensive, there is very limited research on student cheating in online courses. ;This study of 635 undergraduate and graduate students at a medium sized university focused on student cheating behaviors in both types of classes (on-line and face to face), by examining cheating behavior and perceptions of whether on-line or traditional face-to-face classes experienced greater cheating behaviors. Web site |
Circular 9: Works Made for Hire Under the 1976 Copyright Act:U.S. Copyright Office Web Site | |
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Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers:(1993) Thomas Angelo and Patricia Cross. (Jossey-Bass, $46.00) | |
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Classroom Management in the Online Environment:This paper explores the role of classroom management in the online learning environment of a community college history course. It is posed that despite the unique nature of the online learning environment, many of the same features that are essential to the success of a traditional classroom management plan also apply in the online classroom. However, the instructor must be aware of potential stumbling blocks such as complacency of rules, the needs of non-traditional students, and feelings of isolation that may be exaggerated in an online environment and plan preventive classroom management accordingly. This paper demonstrates that when appropriate preventive management strategies are applied, the online learning environment can be as rich and productive as the traditional classroom. Website | |
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Clive Thompson on the New Literacy:(Aug. 24, 2009) by Clive Thompson, Wired Magazine "I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it -- and pushing our literacy in bold new directions. The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That's because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text. Of all the writing that the Stanford students did, a stunning 38 percent of it took place out of the classroom -- life writing, as Lunsford calls it. Those Twitter updates and lists of 25 things about yourself add up.” . . . “But is this explosion of prose good, on a technical level? Yes. Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos -- assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across. The modern world of online writing, particularly in chat and on discussion threads, is conversational and public, which makes it closer to the Greek tradition of argument than the asynchronous letter and essay writing of 50 years ago.” . . . Web site | |
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Closed Captioning Processesf Real Player:Damon Betlow, systems administrator and technology developer in ETC, has created several tools to facilitate closed captioning of streaming media (2000). Web Site | |
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Co-Founder of Wikipedia, Now a Critic, Starts Spinoff With Academic Editors: | |
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Code of Federal Regulations for the FCC:Cornell University outlines permissible uses of ITFS frequencies, etc. Web Site | |
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Collaboration Online: The Example of Distributed Computing:(2005) Anne Holohan and Anurag Garg. Distributed Computing is a new form of online collaboration; such projects divide a large computational problem into small tasks that are sent out over the Internet to be completed on personal computers. Web Site | |
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College Bookstores Move to Put Electronic Textbooks on Their Shelves:“It will now be easier for students to find electronic versions of textbooks at several college bookstores, thanks to a new partnership between textbook publishers and an association of college booksellers. But will students choose the paperless option?” “The arrangement, announced this week, will give more prominent placement at dozens of college bookstores to electronic textbooks offered through CourseSmart, a venture owned by five major textbook companies. The deal involves CourseSmart and the Collegiate Retail Alliance, which represents 52 independent college bookstores.” . . . Website | |
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College Copyright and Intellectual Property Policies:Sample policies from the American Association of Communication Colleges. Web Site | |
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College Math Resources:Free interactive web-based resources that help with the learning of college-level mathematics. Resources include tools, tutors, online courses, general catalogues, organizations and institutions. Web site | |
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College of DuPage:A comprehensive orientation that includes a self assessment test, computer equipment requirements, a technical skills test, and the article, "What Makes a Successful Online Student?" Web Site | |
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