Distance and Distributed Learning

Distance Learning

International Centre for Distance Learning - The International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL) is a documentation centre specialising in collecting and disseminating information on distance education worldwide. ICDL is part of the Open University Institute of Educational Technology, which received world class rating in the 1992 and 1996 Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Research Assessment Exercises.

Online and distance learning 1996 - This senior, elective course is for students in an unique educational technology programme at the Faculty of Educational Science and Technology in The Netherlands. The students are exploring the design and creation of innovative materials for the support of tele-learning, and in particular materials for access via the WWW. The instructor is exploring how to make use of the capabilities of the WWW to support an integrate tele-learning.

Schankman's Distance Learning Directory - list of online courses and resources.

United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) - USDLA purpose is to promote the development and application of distance learning for education and training. The constitutents we serve include K through 12 education, higher education, continuing education, corporate training, and military and government training.

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Distance Education - organized by offerings, journals, articles, newsletters, newsgroups, and organizations

Distributed Learning

Anatomy of a Virtual Community - experimental undergraduate research seminar, investigating the nature of geographically-defined community and electronically-mediated community, with applications for melding the two.

Distributed Cognition, Learning Webs, and Domain-Oriented Design Environments - Paper by Gerhard Fischer.

Distributed Course Delivery (DCD) - San Diego State University CSU Instructional Technology Initiatives.

Distributed Learning Resources Project - The Distributed Learning Resources Project involves the participation of several CSU campuses and faculty from a range of disciplines to develop an integrated, networked multimedia learning environment.

Distributed Resources Learning Resources Project at CSU Hayward - Funded by Pacific Bell's External Technology Program.

Evolving a Distributed Learning Community - Chapter in Designing the Online Classroom in K12 edited by Zane Berge and Mauri Colins

Instructional Models for WWW