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• The Distance Education Clearinghouse "This web site brings together distance education information and resources from Wisconsin, national and international sources. New information and resources are being added ... on a continuing basis," report its organizers at the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
  
• Distance Education: School of Education, University of Colorado at Denver
  Goodly collection of links in four categories: Literature and Research, Resources, Distance Ed Providers, Related Topics.
  
• Distance Education Courses Offered by Higher Education Institutions
  A survey released in October 1997 by the National Center for Education Statistics. From the introduction to the report's highlights: "The survey on Distance Education Courses Offered by Higher Education Institutions was requested by the National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning, U.S. Department of Education. The survey was designed to provide the first nationally representative data about distance education course offerings in higher education institutions. ....Data were collected in fall 1995 from 2-year and 4-year higher education institutions and were weighted to provide national estimates."
  
• Distance Education at a Glance: a Series of Guides
  From Engineering Outreach at the University of Idaho, a series of 14 quick guides to distance education teminology, technology, and practice.
  
• Distance Education Links at Nova University
  Nova University Southeast in Florida maintains a collection of "items that may appeal to individuals teaching in distance education programs."
  
• Distance Learning Resources
  The Institute for Academic Technology at the University of North Carolina sponsors (and copyrights) this collection. A highlight: the listing of more than a dozen electronic discussion lists focusing on distance education issues.
  
• Distance Learning on the Net
  Glenn Hoyle's site, included as one of Syllabus Magazine's Top 20 Education Sites on the World Wide Web, is "a selected and annotated bibliography with links to lead... to further distance learning and education resources on the Net."
  
• Distance Learning Resources: World Wide Web Sites
  Extensive annotated collection (with a slight Canadian accent) from Tele-education at the University of New Brunswick.
• The Distance Learning Resource Network (DLRN)
  This grant-funded resource of the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development (FWL) project "disseminates information from and for educators, administrators, policy makers and parents interested in the effective implementation of distance education."
  
• The Online Chronicle of Distance Education and Communication
  Full texts of the short articles and event announcements of this electronic publication provide up-to-date information about the distance education field, produced by Nova Southeastern University.
  
• Indiana College Network
  This site, which provides information about distance education through many Indiana colleges and universities with a focus on learners'needs, features searchable databases of courses and of satellite reception sites.
  
• Resources for Distance Education
  This extensive collection of links maintained by Charles Darling, a professor at Capital Community-Technical College in Hartford, Connecticut includes sections on intellectual property concerns, providers' lists, and sets of links to online journals and print publications.
  

• Audio Conferencing Guide from the University of Alberta
  This extensive guide addresses the design of audio conferencing courses and establishing a learning context.
  

• Distance Learning Faculty Guide from Emporia State University, New York
  This article explores the situation of faculty using distance education for the first time and includes pointers both for instructor preparation and student preparation. References included.
  
• Desktop Video Conferencing from the University of Vermont
  "Information about ... desktop video conferencing products...." Includes an introduction to desktop video conferencing, descriptions of products, and pointers to other pages that provide information about video conferencing.
  

• Tips for Videoconferencing from the University of California, Santa Barbara
  A checklist of tips for making a videoconference a success.
  

• Workshop for Faculty from Georgia Southern University
  A three-part set of handbook materials from a workshop for faculty teaching via interactive video. While Part I is specific to this technology; Part II, "Policy and Logistical Management Issues," and Part III, "Effective Distance Learning Instructional Strategies," apply across technologies.

• The American Center for the Study of Distance Education (ACSDE)
  http://www.cde.psu.edu/ACSDE/

• Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
  http://www.aect.org/

• Asynchronous Learning Networks
  http://www.aln.org/

• The Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
  http://www.col.org

• International Centre for Distance Learning (iCDL)
  http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk

• Lucent Technologies Center for Excellence in Distance Learning (CEDL)
  http://www.lucent.com/cedl/

• Purdue University Distance Education and Information Technology Unit
  http://info.aes.purdue.edu/acs/disted.html

• United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
  http://www.usdla.org/

• University of Maryland System Institute for Distance Education (IDE)
  http://www.umuc.edu/ide/ide.html

• University of Wisconsin-Extension Distance Education Clearinghouse
  http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html

• The University of Tennessee
  http://www.outreach.utk.edu/deis

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  http://www-caes.mit.edu