Distance Learning
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| Offered as a service of Cape Software, CASO's Internet University
offers Distance Learning articles, courses, and providers, plus online
study resources. Included are descriptions, tuition, and contact
information for more than 700 courses, plus profiles of more than 30
schools offering online instruction. |
| The Center for Excellence in Distance Learning offers this list of
more than a dozen articles with cutting edge news and methods in
distance education, teleconferencing, and teletraining. |
| This site makes available information from all the California
colleges and universities offering distance learning opportunities. There’s
a great alphabetical list by school with good, brief summaries of course
offerings. You can link to the schools, register for catalogs, and read
news articles on distance learning. |
| This site describes the first online high school, which opened in the
fall of 1995. Curriculum, philosophy, and admissions information are
here, plus a helpful FAQ and some good education links in the Library. |
| This site does a good job of explaining just how you would go about
completing course work from anywhere in the world as part of the
Distance Instruction for Adult Learning program at The New School in New
York. Also onsite: public events, sample classes, an art gallery, and
more. |
| If you want to know how videoconferencing works, here's extensive
technological information in language that's easy even for nontechies to
understand. The site also includes product information and links to
related sites. |
| This article offers an excellent installation and operating report on
nine ISDN and POTS (plain old telephone service) desktop
videoconferencing systems. |
| The University of Wisconsin offers a great place to stay current, or
to catch up, with Distance Education. There are definitions and
glossaries, technologies and courses, conferences, articles, and
headlines. A great place to start! |
| Put up by Miami University of Ohio, this is a "listing of sites
related to distance education and educational telecommunications topic
areas or providers." There's not much description, but for browsing
the available resources, it's a good place to start. |
| Here's a compendium of Distance Education sites, including
institutions, courses, papers, journals, and conference proceedings,
along with interactive computer simulations and other helpful Web sites.
This is a great place to start learning about what's going on in
Distance Learning. |
| The DETC is the accrediting agency for distance education
institutions. This site is a good source of information on Distance
Learning options, accreditation, publications, meetings, and subjects.
It also has a good Q & A section. |
| If you are part of an educational institution (and especially if you’re
involved in distance learning), you can register here and use the
QuizCenter to make Web pages with quizzes. No downloading or
installation required, and no knowledge of HTML necessary. Examples and
directions provided. |
| This non-profit company sends adult explorers out into the world to be
hosted by school children who will assist them in meeting people and
learning about areas all over the globe. Their discoveries are put onto
the Web and shared, interactively, with children in K-12 classrooms
around the world. |
| This June, 1997 Forbes Magazine article is a fascinating,
up-to-the-minute look at what's going on in the higher education end of
Distance Learning. From 93 Peterson's listed cyberschools in 1993 to 762
in 1997, "Distance learning is coming on fast." Here also: "For-profit
U." and "20 top Cyber-U.s." |
| This paper deals with the addition of the interactive element into
distance learning, here particularly into an MBA program. If "people
retain 10% of what they see, 20% of what they hear, and 50% of what they
see and hear. But they remember 80% of what they see, hear and do"
it's a very important addition. |
| McGraw-Hill’s online computer sciences and corporate
training classes are described here, and you can register and take opening
lessons free. There’s also a nifty little career planning section and
a quiz to see how much you know about the Internet. |
| NTEN offers graduate level science and math courses to teachers
online, providing "unparalleled educational opportunities for
working professionals and place-bound individuals around the world."
The site has a newsletter, course descriptions, and tips for teaching
and telecomputing. |
| This is a great article on the uses and problems of Distence Learning,
and on attempts to make it more interactive. Though written in the fall
of 1995, a long time ago in this business, it still has a lot to offer. |
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