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DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TEACHING ON THE WEB

Table of Contents:

    CONFERENCES AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
    LISTSERVS
    PEDAGOGY IN DISTANCE EDUCATION
    SOURCES FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION MATERIALS
    COPYRIGHT AND DISTANCE EDUCATION
    MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION TEACHING

CONFERENCES AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

American Educational Research Association: http://aera.net/
Annual meeting: http://aera.net/meeting/

Applied Business TeleCommunications - Telecon XVII - Anaheim Convention Center, CA - Nov
5-7, 1997 - http://www.teleconexpos.com/index1.htm - 800-829-3400

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE):
World Conference on Educational Multimedia and
          Hypermedia and World Conference on Educational Telecommunications
          October 3 - November 4, 2000 * San Antonio, Texas, USA
          Conference website http://www.aace.org/conf/webnet/default.htm
     Society for Information Technology And Teacher Education
          http://www.aace.org/conf/site/default.htm

Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT): http://www.aect.org/ -
202-347-7834

Business Comm. Review/DVC Magazine - Desktop Video Communications Conference and
     Exhibition: http://www.bcr.com
          Conferences: http://www.bcr.com/Default2.htm#conference
          Seminars: http://www.bcr.com/seminars/default.htm

EDUCAUSE Conference and Seminar Schedule: http://www.educause.edu/conference/conf.html

COMDEX conference schedule http://www.key3media.com/comdex/

Communications Media Management Association: http://www.cmma.net

Communications Technology Center - Tooltime II-Teaching and Learning with Technology, 18th
     Annual Instructional Technology Conference and Institute - Nov 6-8, 1997 - Olympia,
     WA - web.ctc.edu/CTC_cust_svcs/et&t/fallconf.htm - 509-533-8837
Distance Education Clearinghouse (University of Wisconsin) and Annual Conference on Distance
    Teaching and Learning:   http://www.uwex.edu/disted/
     Conference Schedules on Distance Teaching & Learning:
           http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conf/

ETTCon: Educational Technology and Training Conference: http://www.abctelecon.com

InfoComm: http://www.infocomm.org/
InfoComm International: Dallas, June 9-13, 1998.

Instructional Telecommunications Council - Telelearning '9X - Sept. - 800-222-8733

International Communications Industries Association (ICIA): http://www.icia.org/
Look for their ICIAcademy Online and Institute for Professional Development.

International Teleconferencing Association (ITCA): http://www.itca.org

National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN) Annual Conference: http://www.odu.edu/~nutn/

North American Web Conference, 1998:   The Virtual Campus
http://www.unb.ca/wwwdev/naweb98
     October 3-6, 1998, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
     "This conference will focus on innovative and practical uses of the World Wide Web in
     education, extending the reach of existing campuses and creating "virtual" campuses of a
     new and unique nature."

NUTN conference: http://www.odu.edu/~nutn/conference.html
Theme: Resistance is Futile: Potentials in the Technological Future, June 27-30, 1998, -
June - 800-293-7679 or 804-683-3012

Society for Applied Learning Technology - www.salt.org
Interactive Media '9X - August - 800-457-6812

SIGGRAPH 98: http://www.siggraph.org/s98/

Sony Training Services: http://www.sony.com/training

Syllabus '98 Conference: http://www.syllabus.com/conf_page.htm

Teaching Tools 2000 Conference
Conference information: http://ttools.syr.edu/ttools2k/main.html
Free registration: http://ttools.syr.edu/ttools2k/register/

TeleCon Conferences through the U.S. Distance Learning Association: http://www.usdla.org

T.H.E. Journal Events Calendar: http://www.thejournal.com/conferences/

University of South Carolina - Stop Surfing-Start Teaching 1998 National Conference - $325 before 11/13/97 - Feb 22-25 1998 - 803-777-9444

UCLA Extension Online Teaching Program: http://www.unex.ucla.edu/online/
UCLA offers six core courses and advanced courses, all online, designed to prepare educators for the virtual classroom environment. The program emphasizes both a theoretical base and a practical application of recent theories in distance education, particularly in computer-based learning.

Virtual Interactive Training And Learning '98 (VITAL '98):
http://www.trainingplace.com/vital98/
VITAL '98 is a virtual conference, taking place entirely on the WWW, September 8-22,
1998. Topics includeonline learning, Web based training, collaborative learning environments and
other subjects related to interactive training and learning.

Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Western Cooperative for Educational
Telecommunications - October - 303-541-0231

LISTSERVS

American Association of Higher Education (AAHESGIT)
subscription address: listproc@listproc.net
subscription instructions: SUBSCRIBE AAHESGIT "your name"

Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT-L)
subscription address: listserv@wvnvm.wvnet.edu
subscription instructions: SUBSCRIBE AECT-L "your name"

Distance Education On-line Symposium (DEOS-L) DEOS-L is a service provided to the
Distance Education community by The American Center for the Study of Distance Education,
The Pennsylvania State University.
subscription address: listserv@psuvm.psu.edu
subscription instructions: SUBSCRIBE DEOS-L "your name"

EDUPAGE (a summary of news about information technology, provided three times a week by
Educom)
subscription address: listproc@educom.unc.edu
subscription instructions: SUBSCRIBE EDUPAGE "your name"

IATFORUM (scheduled discussions related to Institute for Academic Technology sponsored
videoconferences)
subscription address: listproc@ripken.oit.unc.edu
subscription instructions: SUBSCRIBE IATFORUM "your name"

INFOBITS (an occasional newsletter from the Institute for Academic Technology)
subscription address: listproc@ripken.oit.unc.edu
subscription instructions: SUBSCRIBE INFOBITS "your name"

Media in Education (MEDIA-L)
subscription address: listserv@bingvmb.bitnet
subscription instructions: SUBSCRIBE MEDIA-L "your name"

Net Scout Services, Provided by the InterNIC as a Service to the Internet Community
Scout Report, weekly e-mail version
subscription address: listserv@lists.internic.net
subscription instructions: subscribe scout-report yourfirstname yourlastname

Scout Report, weekly html version for local viewing and posting
subscription address: listserv@lists.internic.net
subscription instructions: subscribe scout-report-html yourfirstname yourlastname

The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators. Take a look at their web page at: http://rs.internic.net/scout/report.

The Scout Toolkit, another service from Net Scout Services, is designed to help new users identify network tools which are most appropriate to their needs. http://rs.internic.net/scout/toolkit

WWW Courseware Development (WWWDEV list)
subscription address: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UNB.CA
subscription instructions: SUBSCRIBE WWWDEV "your name"

PEDAGOGY IN DISTANCE EDUCATION

Articles - by date

Partners in Learning: Twelve Ways Technology Changes The Teacher-Student Relationship:
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A1982.cfm T. H. E. Journal Online: General article on the
benefits of using technology in teaching.

ED's Oasis: Teacher Support for Internet Use: http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A2023.cfm -
gives examples of educators utilizing ED's Oasis, a multi-function Web site funded by AT&T

Sustaining Two-Way Interaction and Communication in Distance Learning:
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A2024.cfm - explain how their institution implemented a
viewer response system to encourage interaction between students and instructors in distance
learning programs

InterLabs: An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Where Students Lead the Academic Computing
Revolution: http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A2025.cfm - reports on InterLabs, a computer
lab where students from a broad spectrum of disciplines create new Internet tools

Addressing Student Needs: Teaching on the Internet:
http://www.thejournal.com/98/mar/398feat4.html - A professor of higher education shares his
experiences teaching online graduate courses to community college faculty in Florida. He states
that even novices can design Web-based courses -- if they are willing to try new approaches and
carefully prepare assignments.

Books

Hall, Brandon. Web Based Training Cookbook. New York: John Wiley and Sons. $39.99 + shipping and handling.

Harasim, Linda, et al. Learning Networks: A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning Online. Boston: MIT Press. (1995) $35.00.

Haughey, M.,& Anderson, T. Networked Learning:the Pedagogy of the Internet. Montréal: Chenelière/McGraw-Hill. (1998)

Khan, B. H.(Ed.). Web-based Instruction. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Educational Technology Publications. (1997) Table of contents can be found at
http://www.gwu.edu/~etlalex/khan/tc.txt

Selfe, Dickie, Art Young and ???. Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum. Can't find this book listed in hardcopy Books in Print at this point (6/98).
A concise review of writing across the curriculum and how this has now evolved into electronic communication across the curriculum. Faculty share their experience with using computer-mediated communication - what they did, what worked, what did not work, what tools they used, what they plan to do in the future. The examples are across disciplines and across class size - low and large enrollment. Provides very useful examples and insights. Thanks to Linda Jorn for this review.

HELPFUL WEB PAGES

The Anderson Center for Innovation in Undergraduate Education:
http://www.ciue.rpi.edu/about.html
     The Anderson Center, located at Renssalear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, is
     dedicated to improving undergraduate education through the deployment of new
     pedagogical methods and innovative uses of technology. Look for links projects on
     innovative curriculum and to information about new technologies in education.

American Center for the Study of Distance Education - Penn State University: http://www.cde.psu.edu/acsde/ajde/copyright.asp

John H. Curry III, a doctoral student in the Department of Instructional Technology at Utah State University, (facurry@english.usu.edu, http://english.usu.edu/jcurry/) maintains a page of links dealing with web-based education research and design. The URL is http://english.usu.edu/jcurry/wbi.html.

Educational Technology WebRing (EdTech): http://iml.umkc.edu/web-ring/edtech/
The Educational Technology WebRing (EdTech) is a collection of educational technology resource sites on the World Wide Web for Higher Education professionals. Look especially at Dawn Martin's site on Instructional Technology Resources: http://saga.umkc.edu/it/it-links.html which contains links to sites in the following topic areas, among others: Learning Theories & Models, Curriculum Design & Development, Distance Education, Assessment, Online Journals/Newsletters

Faculty Referral Network: 1-800-257-2578, 8:30 am to 6:00 pm, Eastern Time
Telecourses, generally, are video course materials that may be used in a variety of teaching situations - face-to-face classroom teaching, satellite distributed distance education, possibly web-based asynchronous distance education. The Adult Learning Service of PBS has created the Faculty Referral Network to help answer questions about teaching using these types of materials and in these situations. The following is taken from ALSs advertisement: "The Faculty Referral Network (FRN) is a peer group of accomplished, talented, experienced telecourse instructors from various regions. These faculty are available to answer your questions about teaching telecourses. Through the FRN, faculty can get practical advice on selecting, incorporating, adopting, and utilizing telecourses. They can question their peers on anything from adoption of a specific telecourse to using telecommunication technology such as cable systems, ITFS, and computer conferencing. Most questions can be answered with just one phone call."

Presenter's University: http://www.presentersuniversity.com

3M Company: http://www.3M.com/meetingnetwork/

Rethinking Teaching and Learning in the Liberal Arts Environment:
http://www.marietta.edu/~johnsong/reform/

3M Company: http://www.3M.com/meetingnetwork/

SOURCES FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION MATERIALS

@Business Researcher's Interest: http://www.brint.com/interest.html

Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources: http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/idle/evaluating.html

Higher Education Resources home page: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/edu/high.html (ALLEN: WE
NEED TO GO THROUGH THIS SITE TO CREATE OUR OWN LINKS. - ROSS)

Library of Congress American Memory Learning page: http://learning.loc.gov/learn/

Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators. http://rs.internic.net/scout/report.

PBS Adult Learning Service: http://www.pbs.org/als

Syllabus Top 40 Education Web Sites and other Web resources: http://www.syllabus.com/syllabustop40/top40.cfm

"Women in American History" information is available on Encyclopaedia Britannica's web site at http://www.women.eb.com. There are more than a thousand in-depth proviles articles,a nd facts about the women who helped shape American society.

WW Norton Distance Education: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/distance/
     WW Norton provides (for a price, of course) a collection of stand-alone and text-related
     resources. Some dozen programs are course-specific products while others are
     cross-curricular products - a word processing and file sharing program, a free Web-based
     service for creating Web pages, including a private, integrated discussion forum, a
     CD-ROM program for creating mulitmedia lectures for classroom use, and Web-based
     discussion forums - hosted on Norton's site.

COPYRIGHT AND DISTANCE EDUCATION

Ball State University Copyright and Digital Resources page: http://www.library.bsu.edu/(c)/
Of particular interest here are a couple of their guidelines for use of materials in distance education situations.
A Selective List of Copyright Do's and Don't's for Distance Education: http://www.library.bsu.edu/services/dist/dos-donts.html
Fair Use Guidelines for Asynchronous Internet Courses: http://www.library.bsu.edu/(c)/
Scroll down on the left hand side to find this reference.

CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use
Background information may be read on the University of Texas System web page:
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/confu.htm
Fair Use Guidelines For Educational Multimedia: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/ccmcguid.htm The Consortium of College and University Media Centers was a major player in bringing different interests to the table to hammer out guidelines for the use of copyrighted works in multimedia productions. While these guidelines are fleshed out more than other guidelines from CONFU, they have not been universally accepted.
Educational Fair Use Guidelines For Distance Learning, Revised Draft: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/distguid.htm
These Distance Learning Guidelines only tackle fair use to perform and display others' works in two contexts, live interactive distance learning classes and delayed transmission of faculty instruction. They do not cover fair use of (performance of) others' works in online course materials. CONFU participants felt that these uses were so new that it was hard to even describe them, let alone describe fair use in this context.
A Proposal For Educational Fair Use Guidelines For Digital Images, 12/3/96 Draft: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/imagguid.htm

Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers: http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/csl_seminar.html
This seminar site, operated by Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc., focuses on laws as applied in the area of electronic communications. Their series of lessons http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/csl_lessons.html begins with a dozen short lessons on copyright, but continues with lessons on privacy, trademark, libel, free speech, contract law, content regulation (Communications Decency Act), and dispute resolution � all related to electronic communications.

Fenwick and West, LLP: http://www.oikoumene.com/oikoumene/FWArts.html#copyright
This site offers some articles on intellectual property rights law, particularly in regard to new trends and electronic media.

Indiana University � Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) Copyright Management Center: http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/home.html
Dr. Kenneth D. Crews, Director of the Copyright Management Center, has written several interesting articles on copyright:
Copyright and Distance Education: Lawful Uses of Protected Works http://www.ihets.org/consortium/ipse/fdhandbook/copyrt.html
This article details some of the copyright concerns people have with distance education situations. Read it carefully to make sure it fits your situation, because, like so much of the copyright law, it's fairly specific.
Are State Universities Immune from Copyright Liability? The Constitution May Say Yes! http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/sec108.html
Fair Use and Higher Education: Are Guidelines the Answer?: http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/academ97.html

An Intellectual Property Law Primer For Multimedia And Web Developers, Copyright 1996 by J. Dianne Brinson and Mark F. Radcliffe
http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/multimedia-handbook

Stanford University Copyright and Fair Use: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
This extremely comprehensive site is searchable.

University of Texas System Copyright Crash Course: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm
Georgia Harper has created a great web page on copyright. The section on Fair Use http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm contains a number of Rules of Thumb that the University of Texas System suggests their employees use. For instance:
Rules of Thumb for Displaying and Performing Others' Works in Distance Learning: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm#distance
Rules of Thumb for Digitizing and Using Others' Works in Multimedia Materials for Educational Purposes: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm#mm
Rules of Thumb for Digitizing and Using Images for Educational Purposes: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm#image

U. S. Copyright Office of the Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright
There is a lot of original material here, of course. You might start with Copyright Basics: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html
If you�re interested in registering your own copyrighted works, take a look at their basic registration page: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html#cr

MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION TEACHING

Amherst University: http://www.amherst.edu/~map
Amherst's web page has information on a number of creation tools.

Bit Better - Tips & Tricks http://www.bitbetter.com/powertips.htm
Bit Better has information on PowerPoint. This site has some interesting stuff that you
won't see in the application manual.

Blackboard Inc: http://www.Blackboard.com

Blackboard CourseInfo LLC: http://company.blackboard.com/courseinfo/

The International Videoconferencing List: http://www.sju.edu/IMC/vc_list.html
A great list of contacts for video conferencing (generally compressed video sites, such as
Picture-Tel, V-tel, etc.)

Internet Classroom Assistant: http://www.nicenet.net/
A project of Nicenet, ICA2 is freeware created to manage distance education classes in
post-secondary and secondary situations.

Microsoft - Product Info: http://www.microsoft.com/mspowerpoint/
More information on PowerPoint.

NODE: http://node.on.ca/
The NODE is consortium of colleges and other agencies providing information on resource sharing, training and technology for post-secondary and business learning sites. http://thenode.org/tfl/,

Online Educational Delivery Applications: A Web Tool for Comparative Analysis: http://lists.ctt.bc.ca/landonline/index.html
Based on popular course delivery software in use in Canada, this site is designed to help educators evaluate and select online delivery software.

PC Week: Computer-based training on the Web: Learning long distance: The Labs evaluates
seven vendors' solutions for delivering training via the Net. By Herb Bethoney, PC Week Labs
(August 18, 1997 10:00 AM ET) http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/reviews/ibt.html

University of Iowa Information Technology Services: http://planner.its.uiowa.edu/OSCAR/itstrain.nsf
This URL contains a lot of information on Web-based course management tools.

University of Maryland has recently completed evaluation process for adopting a Course Development and Management tool for campuswide deployment. A methodological report on this process and evaluation is available from: http://sunil.umd.edu/documents/webtools/coursetools.htm

University of Pittsburg: http://www.pitt.edu/~washburn/compare.html
University of Pittsburg's Committee on Conferencing has compared Web-based course management tools that are in use at their campus.

WebED: web-based Education Links: http://www.osc.edu/webED/links.html
Tom Stone's cite maintains lists of vendors and articles on software and pedagogy, among other things, related to web-based teaching.

CUseeMe Network: http://www.cuseeme.com/
CUseeMe Software has developed, for a fee, a distance learning management tool that allows delivery of asynchronous Web-based materials, instructor-led virtual classes, and full integration of Microsoft's NetMeeting.

David R. Woolley: http://thinkofit.com/webconf/index.htm
A comprehensive list of Web-based conferencing software, including Web-based class management tools. Check out his article 11/96 article Choosing Web Conferencing Software at: http://thinkofit.com/webconf/wcchoice.htm

World Wide Web Course Tools (webct): http://www.webct.com/