Are You and Your Students Ready for Distance Education?
A List of Online Resources
 

Dawn Rodrigues, Professor

Department of English and Speech

University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

 
 

Information about Distance Learning Organizations and Journals

•  Who's Who and What to Do in Online Teaching and Learning
  http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/onlineResources/who.htm
  List of professional organizations, journals, and conferences related to distance learning.
   
• Web of Asynchronous Learning Networks
  http://www.aln.org/
  Distance Education organization sponsored by the Sloan Foundation
   
• DEOS-L
  http://www.ed.psu.edu/acsde/deos/deos-l/deosl.asp
  DEOS-L is a service provided to the Distance Education community by The American Center for the Study of Distance Education.
   
• Distance Education and the World Wide Web
  http://www.nmsu.edu/techprof/backgrnd/dislrn.htm#Top
  Overview of distance learning from technical and professional writing page at New Mexico State University

Online Professional Development

• Making the Virtual Classroom a Reality: An Online Training Series for Online Educators
  http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/mvcr.html
  A set of free courses for University of Illinois faculty, the contents of these courses are available to faculty from other institutions. Arrangements can be made to allow other faculty to access the courses, too. See also "Online Learning: An Overview" <http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/online/resources/article4crit.html>.
   
• Educator to Educator
  http://www.nwcet.org/e2e/
  A series of online workshops related to teaching and learning online.

Essays and Articles

• Distant Voices: Teaching and Writing in a Culture of Technology
  http://www.ncte.org/forums/anson/ceilidh.htm

• A Virtual Student Teaches Himself
  http://chronicle.com/free/v45/i35/35a03101.htm
   
• Extending the Classroom Walls Electronically
   http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~tcreed/techno3.html

Distance Learning Portals

• The University of Texas Telecampus
  http://www.uol.com/telecampus/
• Georgia Tech Center for Distance Learning
  http://www.conted.gatech.edu/distance/index.html
• Western Governor's University
  http://www.wgu.edu/wgu/index.html
• Jones International University
  http://www.wgu.edu/wgu/index.html
• The Open University
  http://www.open.ac.uk/frames.html