Best Practice
A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence
The Compendium, first published in 1983, may be out of date. It is maintained on the web as an educational tool. However, it is recommended that you search for more contemporary sources. The ideas herein have published in, Tools for Teaching, by Jossey-Bass. For more information: http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/
Distance Education Clearinghouse
The Distance Education Clearinghouse provides electronic access to a wide range of information about distance education. With its partnering agencies and other University of Wisconsin institutions, the University of Wisconsin-Extension delivers information from Wisconsin, national and international sources. New information and resources are being added to the Clearinghouse on a continuing basis. http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html
Indices and Hotlists for Educators
The following sites are good starting points for exploration. Each leads to a huge number of interesting and useful lessons, resources and activities for teachers, administrators, instructional designers, trainers, counselors and other educators. http://edweb.sdsu.edu/links/index.html
Special Needs Opportunity Windows
Best Practices in Web-Based Instruction from the University of 'Toronto. This page contains Web sites that incorporate exemplary features of on-line courses. It is a resource collection for course designers which reviews sites that demonstrate the effective use of Web-based technologies in the delivery of on-line instruction.
http://snow.utoronto.ca/
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
This site has wonderful graphics well integrated with text.
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/
UC Berkeley
FSU Instructional Systems Union
The Distance Learning Center - Troy State U.
Institute for Learning Technologies-Columbia U.
Open Education
Often used synonymously with distance education to indicate relative freedom of access and choice of routes to course completion.
Open Learning Technology Corporation
The Open Learning Technology Corporation Limited (OLTC) was established in 1993 as a company owned by Australia's Ministers of Education and Training. OLTC's role is to facilitate and support the equitable provision of high quality, cost effective open learning on a national basis, providing a focal point for the promotion of collaborative activities. The website contains documents, available publications and reports, and a comprehensive listing of Australian distance education programs, initiatives, and projects along with the agencies and universities which provide them. http://scout.wisc.edu/addserv/NH/95-09/95-09-01/0015.html
Open University.
International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL)
The International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL) is a documentation centre specializing in collecting and disseminating information on distance education worldwide. ICDL is part of the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) of the UK Open University. Services which are currently offered include: Distance Education Literature (bibliographic references including abstracts to the literature of distance education); Distance Education Database (online access through telnet and on CD-ROM to the distance education database containing detailed information on courses, institutions and literature) and Mindweave (full text chapters of Mindweave: Communication, Computers and Distance Education).
http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk/
