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Distance education

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Commonwealth of Learning: COL has a mandate to create and widen opportunities for learning, through Commonwealth cooperation, with particular emphasis on utilising the potential of distance education and the application of communication technologies to education. The overall aim of the organisation is to help strengthen the capacities of Commonwealth member countries to develop the human resources required for their economic and social development.
Author: Commonwealth of Learning
Subjects: distance education, economic development
DeweyClass: 374
Resource type: documents
DERAL: Distance Education in Rural Areas via Libraries: The DERAL project aims to encourage public libraries to play an increasingly important role in the transfer of information, knowledge and education to users who have difficulty in following normal courses of study.
Author: University of Ulster
Subjects: distance education
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: documents, index
Design for Learning: A self-paced guide
Author: Cybela, Joan & Greer, Edrie
Subjects: audio systems, distance education
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: bibliography
Distance Education Clearinghouse: Selection of articles, reports, and papers addressing the use of technology in distance education.
Author: Distance Education Clearinghouse
Subjects: distance education
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: article index
Distance Learning: Promise or Threat?: Article taking a critical and historical look at recent trends in distance education. It concludes that the dream of automating the educational process has failed so often in the past that there is little reason to take it seriously now, that politicians need to be realistic about the future costs of higher education, that the campus experience will remain in demand for the foreseeable future, that the overselling of technology should not be allowed to discredit the whole field of online education, and that educators need to look at specific designs with legitimate pedagogical objectives in mind.
Author: Feenberg, Andrew
Subjects: distance education
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: article
Distance-Educator.com: Topics include keeping up with rapidly changing technology, how other institutions are managing their distance education programs, deciding which courses to offer and how those courses should be taught, and overcoming institutional resistance.
Author: Distance-Educator
Subjects: distance education
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: magazine
Educate the Children: Non-profit organisation providing free access to a wide range of educational lesson plans and resources aimed at primary school teachers, parents, and children. Includes subject-specific sections and general literacy and numeracy materials.
Author: Marshall, Michael & Marl, Katie
Subjects: distance education, school teaching
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: documents
Exploit Interactive: Pan-European magazine designed to promote the results of EU library projects, including articles from the Telematics for Libraries programme. A keyword searchable archive of past issues is available.
Author: UKOLN, British Council and Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut
Subjects: distance education, european libraries, library services
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: magazine
International Centre for Distance Learning: International research and teaching centre offering databases holding bibliographic references and abstracts to a range of literature on distance learning, and information on institutions worldwide offering distance learning courses.
Author: International Centre for Distance Learning
Subjects: distance education
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: document collection, index
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning: A refereed, interactive, online journal which aims to disseminate scholarly knowledge regarding theory, research, and best practice in open and distance learning. Provides access to full text PDF articles, and an archive of past issues. Free subscription is available.
Author: Athabasca University, Canada's Open University
Subjects: distance education
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: journal
Journal of Library Services for Distance Education: A peer-reviewed journal publishing refereed articles focusing on the issues and challenges of providing research/information services to students enrolled in formal post-secondary distance education.
Author: State University of West Georgia
Subjects: distance education, library services, library user education
DeweyClass: 374
Resource type: journal
MUDs and MOOs: An Experimental Virtual Helpdesk: The Forest After Dark: The Forest After Dark MUD is a social and experimental mud. It's social in that people come to hang out with people that they want to keep in touch with. It's experimental in that, if you want to mess around with MUD programming, it's easy to do.
Author: The Forest After Dark
Subjects: communication studies, distance education, internet users
DeweyClass: 384.3
Resource type: proceedings
Online Journals in Distance Education: Selection of journals covering distance education and related topics.
Author: Distance Education Clearinghouse
Subjects: distance education
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: journal index
Report of the University of Illinois Teaching at an Internet Distance Seminar: Examins the origin and objectives of the seminar held in December 1999 which analysed the status of online instruction, an overview of online teaching and learning, elements of good teaching, and teaching evaluation. Conclusions form two sets of practical guidelines, one for faculty members interested in developing online coursework, and one for administrators interested in formulating policy.
Author: University of Illinois
Subjects: distance education, internet based education
DeweyClass: 370
Resource type: proceedings
Role of Virtual Learning Environments in the Online Delivery of Staff Development: Paper describing two alternative approaches to delivering online staff development programmes. Discusses the suitability and potential role of commercial and freely available virtual learning environments in the delivery of such programmes.
Author: Milligan, Colin
Subjects: distance education, staff development
DeweyClass: 378.112
Resource type: document
Serving the Remote User: Reference Service in the Digital Environment: Article which aims to provide a perspective on the information seeker in the digital environment as one whose need for a personalised, human-delivered reference service is greater than ever. It suggests new organisational structures that give the reference librarian greater visibility and value.
Author: Lipow, Anne
Subjects: distance education, library services, library user education
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Stonebridge Associated Colleges: Stonebridge Associated Colleges are an established provider of distance education and home study correspondence courses. Choose from hundreds of online courses ranging from Animal Heath Care to Farm Management and Horticulture.
Author: Stonebridge Associated Colleges
Subjects: distance education
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: institution
Telematics for Libraries - Distance Learning: Projects, Resources and Research: List of European initiatives to improve delivery of library services to distance learners.
Author: I'M Europe
Subjects: distance education, european libraries, library services
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: index
Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature: A set of tutorials forms the core of this project which aims to demonstrate that the virtual seminar is more effective than the more traditional format which limits cross discussion between institutions. Material is presented on the subject of First World War poetry, including Isaac Rosenberg's 'Break of Day in the Trenches', manuscripts by Wilfred Owen, and an introduction to text analysis.
Author: JISC Technology Applications Programme Virtual Seminars Project, Oxford University Computing Services
Subjects: distance education, first world war, poetry links
DeweyClass: 374.4
Resource type: poems