- The alt.education.distance FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions)
Summary: This document offers answers to
the most Frequently Asked Questions regarding distance learning, also known as distance
education, or non-traditional education. Distance learning most commonly involves the
earning of post-secondary credits via non-traditional means, i.e., correspondence courses,
and college courses via the Internet, TV, radio, satellite, etc.
- Distance Education and Training Council
The
Distance Education and Training Council (formerly the National Home Study Council) is a
non profit educational association located in Washington, D.C. DETC serves as a
clearinghouse of information about the distance study/correspondence field and sponsors a
nationally recognized accrediting agency called the Accrediting Commission of the Distance
Education and Training Council.
- Real Education
Real
Education's mission is to build and manage complete online university campuses and
continuing education centers for our clients. Our goal is to affiliate with major
universities, community college consortiums, corporations and major continuing education
providers to provide a total distance learning solution for your organization.
- Online Course Example
These course templates are intended to help educators and educational
service providers to quickly make course information available online via the World Wide
Web.
- QuizMaker Online Service
The
popular METRD QuizMaker program is now a FREE service for educators. Without any knowledge
of HTML you can instantly create Internet-based quizzes for distance learning and online
lesson plans.
- Magideas ClassWise™
The
low-bandwidth software suite designed to deliver distance education in real-time. The
software incorporates standard presentation software with voice, slide control, whiteboard
annotations, text chat, and recording and playback capabilities. ClassWise™ is ideally suited for anyone who wishes to expand
the educational process, whether it is through the global Internet or a local intranet. It
is idea for distance education, corporate training, departmental training, briefings,
capturing and linking PowerPoint presentations with audio and annotations for later
playback, and much more.
- The NODE/RÉDO
is a network linking
post-secondary course and program developers, faculty, administrators and learners
interested in technologically-mediated teaching and learning. Our prime focus is on the
needs and interests of post-secondary distance educators and learners, but NODE activities
reflect the fact that these needs and interests are shared by more and more faculty,
administrators and learners as communications and information technologies are integrated
into post-secondary learning.
- Distance
Education Resource Sites (WWW and Gopher)
How can I learn more without
spending my life doing it? This page provides a listing of sites related to distance
education and educational telecommunications topic areas or providers. While not intended
to be comprehensive, it is regularly maintained and revised. Annotation is kept to a
minimum -- browsing will provide a general overview, and if you find a site of particular
interest to you, you can save and annotate it. Think of this as a collection where the
first steps in sifting and winnowing WWW information pertaining to distance education have
already been done for you. This is not a ranked listing, but rather a listing the compiler
has found valuable.
- Teaching Online
This
course covers the theory and practice of facilitating online education. Topics include:
online technologies, the virtual classroom, characteristics of online interaction,
facilitating online group discussions, preparing online educational activities, designing
online courses, from text-based to multimedia environments, models of education in the
future.
- An Introduction to WebCT (World Wide
Web-Course Tool)
WebCT is a tool that facilitates the creation of
sophisticated World Wide Web-based educational environments. It can be used to create
entire on-line courses, or to simply publish materials that supplement existing courses.
WebCT requires minimal technical expertise on the part of the developer of the educational
material (course from now on) , and on the part of the student. WebCT was developed in the
Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia.
- The Internet University - College Courses by Computer
Welcome : This site has almost 300 individual pages of info. It is the most
comprehensive source of information about online college courses available on the Internet
today. This site is the companion site for the book The Internet University published by
Cape Software, and is provided by the publisher as a service to the educational and
Internet communities.
- Online Information
DISTANCE
EDUCATION DATABASE - FREE
The International Centre for Distance Learning at the UK Open University continues to
offer free online access to its distance education database.
- Lifelong Learning Home Page
offer
articles on how to locate and select an online university along with the Guide to Online
Colleges & Virtual Universities. Lifelong Learning is a private consulting firm that
researches, develops, and authors adult and distance education materials and reports for
the general public and in partnership with private providers. We strive to provide
"Accessible Information for Beleagured Midlife Minds." (SM)
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