"E-Learning Technologies: Web Resource for Comparisons," will provide a resource to help educators analyze and compare vendor-produced course-management tools, other online software products, online providers of student services, and e-learning policies. The project is using the work of Bruce Landon, faculty at Douglas College in British Columbia as a model for providing comparisons. His popular Landonline site, which compares course management systems, assists decision-makers in sorting through the many options available.

The second project will perform research on a couple issues to determine if more in-depth attention on these issues is needed. The first will examine the need for independent evaluations of online courses that are available for institutions to license and offer as their own. The second will research the need for experimentally developed guidelines for creating appropriate environments for distance learners.

The third project will be a partnership of the Hewlett Foundation and WCET, with their staffs working together to study issues that are likely to have an impact on the integration of technology into higher education.