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Distance Learning, General

See also Distributed Learning section on Military Education Online page
Gov Online Learning Center - "a Government-wide resource that supports development of the Federal workforce through simplified and one-stop access to high quality e-Training products and services"
Distance Education Clearinghouse, U. of Wisconsin -- includes news, conferences, etc. having to do with distance education
Innovate, peer-reviewed journal of online education
Innovate-Live, portal for info on teaching innovations
Guidelines for Electronically Delivered Programs, checklist from Extended Learning, Faculty Information pages at West Va U.
Online Learning of Complex Skills (local copy), U. S. Army Research Institute (ARI) for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Newsletter, Winter 2002 - potential to improve growing of tacit knowledge
Principles of Good Practice for Electronically Offered Academic Degree and Certificate Programs from the Higher Learning Commission
Air Force Institute for Advanced Distributed Learning (AFIADL), formerly USAF Extension Course Institute (ECI) and the USAF Distance Learning Office (AFDLO)
- Air Force Distance Learning Courses
- Plans & Policies
- Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Guidance, ADL-DL-SCORM
Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT), with publications and annual conferences - focused on education more so than training
ASTD "world's premier professional association and leading resource on workplace learning and performance issues" - publications and annual conferences - focused more on training than on education
DoD Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative home page (ADLNet), including guidelines on compatibility and sharing courseware
Air Force Institute for Advanced Distributed Learning (AFIADL), formerly USAF Extension Course Institute (ECI) and the USAF Distance Learning Office (AFDLO)
I.G. Brown Air National Guard Training & Education Center, McGhee Tyson ANGB, TN, host of Dec 1999 Distributed Learning Symposium
Theory and Practice of Online Learning, online book ed. by Anderson and Elloumi, Athabasca University
The Power of the Internet for Learning, 19 Dec 2000, Final Report of the Web-Based Education Commission, established by Congress "to ensure that all learners are able to take full advantage of the educational promise of the World Wide Web"
United States Distance Learning Association
International Center for Distance Learning
International Council for Open and Distance Education
International Centre for Distance Learning (iCDL), Open University, UK, "over 31,000 distance learning programmes and courses ... over 12,000 abstracts of books, journal articles, research reports, conference papers, dissertations and other types of literature relating to all aspects of the theory and practice of distance education."
American Center for the Study of Distance Education (ACSDE), Penn State
Distance Learning, Continuing Education, and Outreach (DLCEO) at Georgia Tech
Education on Demand, by Prof McCann, Duke U.
Annenberg/CPB Project's Top Ten (now only nine) Distance Education Sites
TeleEducation, Canada distance education resources for faculty and developers
Distance Education Resources, George Washington University Center for Distance and Mediated Learning
PBS TeacherSource
Educause, "transforming education through information technologies"
Star Schools, U.S. Dept of Education
Yahoo! Distance Learning links
World Lecture Hall, links to uses of the web to deliver course materials in any language
Teaching & Learning on the Web, over 800 examples of how the web is being used as a medium for learning

Schools and Courses Online

See also Military Education Online page
Examples below are just that ... examples. Their listing here is to demonstrate the state of DL and the diversity of its offerings, and implies no endorsement by anyone in the U.S. government.
World Lecture Hall, U. of Texas listing of online courses and electronically enhanced resident courses
EduPoint.com, searchable database of over 170,000 courses
Distance Learning Resources and Programs, listed by Petersons.com, including searches for courses and scholarships for online courses
Defense Acquisition University (DAU)
- DAU Virtual Campus
- DAU Virtual Campus, list of courses
Western Governors University, offering "degrees and certificates based completely on competencies -- your ability to demonstrate your skills and knowledge on a series of assessments -- not on required courses"
Concord University School of Law, law school on the internet
The Open University of the Netherlands
The Open University, U.K.
online Master of Distance Education degree, offered by University of Maryland University College (UMUC) -- entire program offered online
SMU School of Engineering's Distance Learning programs, including more than a dozen MS degrees in engineering
African Virtual University (AVU)