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Distance
Learning Research and Publications
The American Center
for the Study of Distance Education (ACSDE)
The American Center for the Study of Distance Education (ACSDE),
established in 1988, seeks to promote distance education research,
study, scholarship, and teaching and to serve as a clearinghouse
for the dissemination of knowledge about distance education.
Columbia Center
for New Media Teaching & Learning (CCNMTL)
The primary mission of the CCNMTL is to support Columbia faculty
in the use of digital technologies for teaching and learning.
However, the Center also plans to share the successful technologies
and curriculum models it develops with the wider university
community. This new site is the first step in that direction.
College educators and media lab staff will find a number of
items of use, including a Web Publishing Guide and overviews
of ongoing projects at the Center. Probably the most useful
section of the site at present is the EdCITE Reference Database
of over 230 research and case studies on the effective use of
technology in education. Searchable by title, author, keyword,
descriptor, and discipline, the database offers citations to
journal articles, Websites, and other relevant information resources
on technology in education. Citations include author, title,
source, resource type, date, education level, discipline, an
abstract, and whenever possible a link to the full text.
The Distance
Education at a Glance Series
In order to help teachers, administrators, facilitators, and
students understand distance education, Barry Willis, the Associate
Dean for Outreach and the Engineering Outreach staff present
the following series of guides highlighting information detailed
in Dr. Willis' books, Distance Education - Strategies and Tools
and Distance Education - A Practical Guide.
International Centre
for Distance Learning (ICDL)
The International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL) is a documentation
centre specializing in collecting and disseminating information
on distance education worldwide. They offer online and CD-ROM
access to a distance education database containing detailed
information on courses, institutions and literature. There is
also a unique library collection covering all aspects of the
theory and practice of distance education and open learning.
Also included is a list of journals and newsletters on open,
distance and flexible learning and a selective bibliography
for higher education institutions in Europe.
International Review
of Research in Open and Distance Learning Despite
its title, The IRRODL is intended to be a journal in which readers
can inform themselves about distance education developments
in theory, research, and best practice. Our aim is to have all
three elements present in every issue. Some articles will stress
one of the elements more than the other two. Other articles
will combine two or three elements. Ideally, the collection
of articles selected for each issue will convey to readers an
overall sense of balance among all three elements.
National Center for Education Statistics
The U.S. Department of Education conducted two comprehensive
research studies on the number of distance education courses,
programs, and enrollments at colleges and universities across
the nation. These studies contain the most complete descriptive
statistics to be found anywhere on the status of distance education.
Distance
Education in Higher Education Institutions -- October 1997
Distance
Education at Postsecondary Education Institutions: 1997-98
-- December 1999
New Chalk:
A Biweekly Featuring Instructors' Use of Networked Technologies
Few tangibles interconnect classroom instructors like chalk.
From the ghost images of old lectures to telltale white handprints
on slacks and satchels, the presence of chalk exists in our
cultural mind and memory as the instructor's tool, a means of
illustrating knowledge and guiding learning. Whether it illustrates
Grog's method of mastodon hunting or the Pythagorean theorem,
the Petrarchan sonnet or molecular motion, chalk has earned
its place in history. Chalk is now a metaphor. This bi-weekly
newsletter, New Chalk, hopes to build on that metaphor by exploring
uses and applications of "new" chalk: networked instructional
technologies. Each issue of New Chalk will focus on real, practical
examples of how instructors use the new technology in their
teaching. Reviews of these models will be brief and to
the point, centered on a common topic.
No
Significant Difference Phenomenon
This site provides selected entries from the book "The
No Significant Difference Phenomenon" as reported in 355
research reports, summaries and papers - a comprehensive research
bibliography on technology for distance education. This 1999
book was compiled by Thomas L. Russell, is fully indexed, and
includes a foreword by Richard E. Clark.
The primary purpose of this site is to provide access to appropriate
studies published/discovered after the release of the book.
In addition to posting post-book entries on this site, a new
section, under construction, features comparative studies which
DO demonstrate significant differences. Studies are constantly
being solicited for inclusion in either section--both significant
differences and no significant differences.
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