Distance Education Links

Distance Education Faculty Resources, University of Victoria
Course development step-by-step tutorial, advice on course delivery, and reference materials.
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A quick guide for writing learning objectives
A tutorial on writing learning objectives.
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Design Principals to Amplify Viewers Web Experience
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Instructional Design for Online Course Development
A series of articles to assist faculty in the development of their online courses. An Online Course in a Nutshell; Learning Styles and the Online Environment; Instructional Strategies for Different Learning Styles; Elements of Instruction; Alternatives to the Online Lecture; Developing course Objectives; Discussion Questions.
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The Sloan Consortium
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan-C, encourages the collaborative sharing of knowledge and effective practices to improve online education in learning effectiveness, access, affordability for learners and providers, and student and faculty satisfaction. Sloan-C provides speakers and consultants to help institutions learn about online methodologies; hosts conferences and workshops to help implement and improve online programs; publishes a newsletter, the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN), and annual volumes of applied research studies; and conducts research, surveys and forums to inform academic, government and private sector audiences.
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Distance-Educator.com
Distance-Educator.com is a hub for consulting, news, information, instructional design and products focusing on distance education.
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Instructional Design Models
A compendium of articles on instructional design models published by Martin Ryder University of Denver School of Education.
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CIT Infobits
An email publication providing a compendium of recent articles about online teaching and learning published by the Center for Instructional Technology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Each month the CIT selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. To subscribe to INFOBITS, send email to listserv@unc.edu with the following message: SUBSCRIBE INFOBITS firstname lastname substituting your own first and last names. Example: SUBSCRIBE INFOBITS Your Name.
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Sidebars
Published via email and the Web, published by the Learning Resources Unit of the British Columbia Institute of Technology [http://www.lru.bcit.ca/] to provide "useful information and news items for instructors, course developers, educational technologists who have an interest in distributed learning in its various manifestations."
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Distance Learning Resources
Bernie Sloan and Sharon Stoerger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) have compiled and maintain "Library Support for Distance Learning," a website listing links to distance education organizations, websites, articles, and policies.
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