Activity Rooms

• Kitchen Table: Meeting space for sharing agendas
• Library/Media Study: Information Complex
• Toolbench: Distance Education Processors/Blenders
• Exhibition Hall: Construction by course participants; Work in Progress (Hard Hats Required).

Kitchen Table: Meeting Space for Sharing Agendas

• Distance education course news

• Calendar, To-Do List (Assignments)

• Ranking the Significant Issues in Distance Education

Participant Web Sites (to be added later)

Library/Media Study: Information Complex

Syllabus Press

When you arrive at the Syllabus Press home page, take the link to News, Resources and Trends to find the most current short summaries of weekly items of interest on technologies used to enhance education. Older news stories for the year are generally archived including the prior years: 1998, and 1997. From SyllabusWeb, produced by Syllabus Press, Inc.
 

Yack

Yack is a guide to live Net events. Think of it as the "TV Guide to the Internet". Since it features cutting edge technology uses for interaction and multimedia, it is a source of example for ideas that can be incorporated into distance education courses.

• Today's Distance Education Headlines and other News Sources
• Tuesday, June 12, 2001, Senate Passes a Bill Extending Copyright Exemption to Online Courses

• 2nd UNC Workshop on the Use of Technology for Distance Education, sponsored by UNC General Administration and includes faculty and staff from across the state engaged in distance education activity. September 16-17, 1998.
• United States Distance Learning Association, a non-profit association with over 2000 members.
• Usenet newsgroup- alt.education.distance

Statewide

• California Virtual University, 98 public and private colleges and universities.
• California State University.
• Florida.
• Indiana.
• Iowa, University administrators are proposing a virtual "fourth state university."
• Massachusetts.
• Pennsylvania.
• State University of New York's SUNY Learning Network.

Consortia

• The West - Western Governors University
• The South - Southern Regional Electronic Campus which includes North Carolina.
• The Midwest - Common Market of Courses and Institutes
• Community Colleges - The Community College Distance Learning Network

Distance Education Companies

• Collegis, customized Internet learning solutions.
• The Education Coalition. "We are comprised of diverse agencies from across the nation working together to promote systemic educational reform through the use of multiple technologies."
• LifeLong Learning, "geteducated.com, is a project of Lifelong Learning, an adult education and distance learning consulting firm" and maintains an online Resource Center.
• NovaNet..
• PictureTel, videoconferencing specialists.
• Lucent Technologies Center for Excellence in Distance Learning - Articles, handbooks, research, and more.
• Real Education., helps colleges and universities put their courses and campuses online.
• SCT "your company for interactive learning."

 
• Yahoo's Index to Corporate Online Teaching and Learning Programs
• Yahoo's Index to Distance Education

• The Professor's Bookshelf
• Current University Bibliography
• Hunter Library's Card Catalog Resources, search completed August 3, 1998.
• For a comprehensive review of the literature, see: Distance education : review of the literature by Dan Hanson (1997) [Available for checkout at your campus library].

Locating College/University Course Materials on the Web

The OpenCourseWare Project

http://www.ocw.mit.edu Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their goal is 1000 freely available courses on the Web. As of December, 2002, 38 were available.
 
World Lecture Hall


http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture University of Texas at Austin, Center for Instructional Technologies. A database of course materials submited by professors for 1,550 courses.
 

Syllabus Finder


http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/syllabi George Mason University, Center for History and New Media. Course materials for 100,000 courses from college Web sites located and retrieved by a special Google-based search engine. Some 39,000 of them are cached at GMU.
 

• Google.com's Index to Distance Learning
• The Virtual Education Database
• Resources for Distance Education
• Models of Distance Education: A Conceptual Planning Tool Developed by University of Maryland University College for the University System of Maryland Institute for Distance Education.
• Tools for reviewing and evaluating
1. Untangling a Tangled Web: An Overview of Web-Based Instruction Programs
2. Online Educational Delivery Applications: A Web Tool for Comparative Analysis
3. Comparison of Online Course Delivery Software Products
4. Comparison of On-Line Education Systems
5. Web-Based Authoring Tools Comparison Report
6. Evaluation and Selection of Web Course Management Tools
7. Web Based Learning Resources Library
8. Testing Web-Course Management Software: A CCSF Title III Grant Project (a test of Web CT)
9. Sharon Gray (September 1998). Web-based Instructional Tools, Syllabus, Volume 12, No. 2. Briar Cliff College.

Toolbench

Problem Processors

• CROP: Communities Resolving Our Problems

Internet Communication Systems (for interaction)

• Live Communication Systems for the Internet:
• Multiple participants
• Parachat
• eGroup.com
• IRC. Help Sites: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) help archive ; IRC Clients ; Liszt's IRC Chat Directory
• One on one or multiple
• CU-See Me (can run as chat only, add audio, and add video but group work requires a reflector site).
• AOL Instant Messenger (IM). Help Site(s): Frequently Asked Questions
• One on one
• Netscape Conference (one on one): whiteboard, chat, file transfer, audio/voice if a microphone attached. (See Help pages for your version of Netscape but feature is no longer in most current versions of Netscape.)
• Other Online communication systems
• Web page development, Email, SUP database system in CROP
• Newsgroups
• Listservs
• MUDs/MOOs, multiuser dimensions -
Essays: Building Fun Online Learning Communities ; The educational uses of MUDs/MOOs ; Moose Crossing - Community Support for Constructionist Learning ;
• Selected sites:
• Diversity University Main Campus, dedicated to meeting the on-line distance education learning needs of individuals and institutions, a real-time internet accessible virtual reality educational environment.
• Athena Academy (K-12) is not an ordinary school. It is an online learning community of parents, children, and teachers. Using a MOO to create a microworld, AA teachers lead online activities which help students learn both basic and advanced subject area content.
• Cafe MOOlano, lower-division foreign language and writing classes.
• GilMOO, An educational MOO for K-12 students, sharing ideas and information from all over the world (not currently up when I made this link - Sept. 22, 1999).
• MediaMoo, for media researchers and developers
• online audio:  sound archives; music archives; radio stations and Internet phones
• online video
• desktop video and audio conferencing (e.g., White Pine; CU-See Me, Netscape Conference, Netmeeting)
• Online fax systems
• Internet Phone
• Virtual Reality spaces ; Exhibits
• Non-Internet Communication Systems
• print formats (e.g., magazines, books); phone, fax, Postal Service, Parcel Delivery, radio, network and cable television ; film, videotape, videodisc resources ; CDs, records and tape ; DVDs.
• Videoconferencing rooms (I'm looking for online 360 degree images of such rooms - let me know at houghton@wcu.edu )

Professional Web Design Tools

• Macromedia's CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver combination
• Coursebuilder news release, Dec.1, 1999
• Free demo download
• Adobe's GoLive
• description and links
• free demo download

Course Management Software Systems (selected list)

• Course Info by Blackboard

http://www.blackboard.com/Blackboard.com.
 
• eCollege.com

http://www.eCollege.com

• WebCT

http://www.webct.com/
 
•  SCT

http://www.sctcorp.com/industrysolutions/education/distancelearningS.htm
 
• SCT Learning Suite
• http://www.sctcorp.com/industrysolutions/education/learningsuiteS.htm
• SCT's Campus Pipeline initiative integrates existing campus software with a browser interface that is customized for each individual institution. http://www.campuspipeline.com/press/press02.htm

 
• Eduprise, Contact: David Floyd, Senior Sales Executive, dfloyd@eduprise.com, (919) 376-3435, 2000 Perimeter Park Drive, Suite 160 Morrisville, NC 27560

http://www.eduprise.com
 
• Web Course in a Box by Mad Duck

http://www.madduck.com/
 
• Intrakal by Anlog

http://www.anlon.com/
 
• TopClass  by WWBT Systems

http://www.wbtsystems.com/index.html
 
• Convene by Convene

http://www.convene.com
 
• FirstClass Collaborative by CoftArc

http://www.education.softarc.com/
 
• Learning Space by Lotus

http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/learnspace/
 
• Mentorware

http://www.mentorware.com/

• WebBoard

http://www.WebBoard.com/

Exhibition Hall

• (to be added over time)