Websites

  • American Distance Education Consortium
    http://www.adec.edu/
    The ADEC was conceived and developed to promote the creation and provision of high quality, economical distance education programs and services to diverse audiences. The site includes links to various distance education resources, including news articles and press releases, links to courseware tools, conferences and workshops, and virtual universities.

  • Computer Based Teaching and Learning Links
    http://lorien.ncl.ac.uk/ming/resources/cal/journals.htm
    This website contains links to the home pages of a number of journals and publications, both on-line and print versions, devoted specifically to technology based teaching and learning.

  • Distance Education Clearinghouse
    http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html
    The Distance Education Clearinghouse is managed and maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, in cooperation with its partners and other University of Wisconsin institutions. The site contains links to distance education definitions and glossaries, current journals and readings containing information about distance education, funding sources and grants, and much more.

  • EDUCAUSE Resource Center
    http://www.educause.edu/Search/644
    The EDUCAUSE Resource Center is a repository for information concerning use and management of information technology (IT) in higher education. It aggregates content submitted by EDUCAUSE, ECAR, Net@EDU, NLII, and its members. Resources include articles, books, conference sessions, contracts, effective practices, plans, policies, position descriptions and blog content.

  • MERLOT
    http://www.merlot.org
    A continually growing catalog of online learning materials, peer reviews, learning assignments, and user comments, organized by discipline and created to help faculty enhance their instruction. Most of the material may be used by anyone for free. Membership is free and consists of individuals from academia, business, and professional organizations.

  • National Center for Education Statistics
    http://nces.ed.gov/
    NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations. The website is filled with statistics, table and figures, and daily "fast facts" with interesting bits of information about all
    areas of education.

  • United States Department of Education
    http://www.ed.gov/
    The US Department of Education website contains information about federal grants, programs and research and stastics for all areas of education. Full-text Department of Education publications are also available and easily searchable.

  • World Bank
    http://www.worldbank.org/elibrary
    The World Bank e-Library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 3,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 1,400 World Bank publications and over 2,000 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as it is published.