Distance Education Issues
This page introduces you to a sample of the special interest issues
found in Distance Education which in some cases reverberate beyond.
Contents:
- Distance Learning Fact Sheet - Link Unavailable
- The Evolution of Distance Learning - a paper by Edward F. Spodick, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
- Summary of Quality Issues in Distance Education - Link Unavailable
- Issues in Distance Learning - by Lorraine Sherry, on-line draft for peer review, December 5, 1994.
- Needs assessment of Distance learning - by Sherry, L. & Morse, R. (1995). A needs assessment was performed to identify the training deficiencies of
teachers, site facilitators, and other team members involved in distance
learning projects.
- Quality Distance Education (QDE): Lessons Learned - is a multimedia program for users of all types of distance education technologies, beginning November 1995 and including a satellite videoconference on April 25, 1996
- International Electronic Workshop To Improve Quality In University Distance Education - The first electronic workshop offered as part of CREAD's comprehensive training program to improve quality in distance education. Key administrators/faculty learned to use a new approach to quality control.
- Access Issues in Distance Education - Link Unavailable
- Open and Distance Learning Critical Success Factors
- The International Tutoring Foundation - The International Tutoring (IT) Foundation is a non-profit, charitable
organization which provides global tutoring for pre-school, primary,
secondary, post-secondary, and continuing education students worldwide.
- The "No Significant Difference" Phenomenon - a bibliography of over 200
papers compiled by Tom Russell that show that there is no significant difference in the relative effectiveness of different
technologies and media in learning whether at a distance or in a
traditional situation.
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- New Brunswick Distance Education Network: Strategic Plan (Link Unavailable) - Submitted to the Canada-New Brunswick Cooperation Agreement on Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Development
- CONSUP Distance Education Study - for the Council of Nova Scotia University Presidents
- Connecting to the Global Classroom: Distance Education in a
University Setting (Link Unavailable) - a report by Kent A. Peacock, for University of Toronoto, Instructional and Research Compution
- Distance Education at Dalhousie Report
- New Directions in Distance Learning (Link Unavailable) - a report by the Open Learning Agency
- Distance/Continuing Education Working Report - The Working Group was established at the University of Waterloo in January 1995 to report on distance education, professional development and upgrading courses, non-credit activity, and special part-time programs.
- Distance Education: A Cost Analysis - by
Judy I. Jones and Michael Simonson
- Open distance learning: Agenda for public libraries - Summary Report of a Workshop held on 6 November 1995 in Luxembourg
- Distance Learning: Planning Considerations and Options - by the University of Michigan
Information Technology Division Office of Instructional Technology March 1995
- USHE - Technology and Distance Education Initiative - Draft of a long-range plan of the Utah System of Higher Education
- Learning Without Frontiers - a concept paper by UNESCO based on Distance Education of the Nine High-Population Countries, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan.
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- Dalhousie Copyright Office
- includes general Canadian copyright information related to electronic sources
- Copy It Right - Copyright information from B.C. Ministry of Education
- Study on New Media and Copyright: Final Report - prepared for Industry Canada, New Media, Information Technologies Industry Branch, June 30, 1994.
- Citing Electronic Sources, Dictionaries, Thesasuri, and other works - MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources, by
Janice R. Walker
- The Copyright Website - This site
endeavors to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information of
interest to infonauts, netsurfers, webspinners, content providers, musicians,
appropriationists, activists, infringers, outlaws, and law abiding citizens.
- Update of Canadian Copyright Act - a press release - the summary and the entire proposed amendments
to the Canadian Copyright Act.
- Copyright & Fair Use - sponsored by Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information
Resources, in collaboration with the Council on Library Resources
and FindLaw Internet Legal Resources.
- Copyright Clearance Center
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- Adaptive
Technology Resource Centre - at the University of Toronto
- EASI -- Access to Information for Persons With Disabilities - are dedicated to disseminating
up-to-date information about access to computing and information
technology for persons with disabilities.
- The Trace Center - is an interdisciplinary research, development and
resource center on technology and disability. It is part of the Waisman
Center and the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of
Wisconsin - Madison.
- Special
Education - at the University of Kansas
- Cornucopia of Disability
Information (CODI) - CODI serves as a community resource for consumers and
professionals by providing disability information in a
wide variety of areas.
- National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) - is
pleased to announce that the Web Access Symbol is now
available for use!
- Special Needs Student Resources - A private, nonprofit corporation, SEDL operates under contracts and grants
from federal, state, and private sources to conduct research, develop school
improvement tools, and provide assistance to education agencies and
policymakers.
- Special Education Distance Education Resources - World Distance Education Resources at Internation Centre for Distance Learning.
- Enabling Vision `95 Conference Proceedings - The delegates used the workshop structure of the conference to discuss,
debate and reach consensus, where possible, on recommended action to improve
access to education and training by people with disability through open
learning.
- W3C Disabilities Developments -
This site is devoted by the W3C to focus on the
developments and issues as they relate to implementing accessibility to the
Web for people with disabilities. You can also read the W3C position
statement on disabilities
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- Adult Eduction Resources - (Link Unavailable)
- Adult Distance Education Internet Surf Shack (Link Unavailable) - is designed
to be an user friendly WWW starting place for those Web surfers interested in adult distance
education courses and resources available over the Internet.
- Association for Experiential Education
- Lifelong Learning - Adult Education & Distance Learner's Resource Center.
- Lifelong Learning at MIT (Link Unavailable) - These courses provide opportunities for learning beyond MIT's
degree programs; they are available to the public and not restricted to MIT
students. Courses listed include various media: classroom, video, online
courses, etc.
- UK Lifelong Learning (Link Unavailable) - This is the UK's official site on the Internet for the encouragement,
promotion and development of Lifelong Learning.
- Assessment of Prior Learning - Many students seeking admission to
programmes of study will be mature entrants often with considerable work
experience. The University of Wolverhampton in all its awards seeks to give credit for
assessed learning from whatever source, and Assessment of Prior Learning
(APL) and Assessment of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) are the
mechanisms by which this learning is assessed and can be credited towards
University awards.
- Center for LifeLong Learning and Design - at the University of Colorado, Boulder
- Link to Lifelong Learning - at the University of Tennesse
- People You Should Know - Leaders in Adult Education
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- Feminism and Women's Resources - This is a listing of the feminism, women's studies, or women-related sources on the net.
- Feminist Resources (Link Unavailable) - This site offers a listing of resources related to feminism, such as
bibliographies on Women's Studies or Feminism, Cultural Studies and Critical
Theory texts, gender related electronic forums etc.
- Feminism and Women's Studies - This page publishes women's studies and feminist works, particularily focusing on issues of sex, gender, sexual identity and sexuality in cultural practice.
- The Women's
Resource Project
- Women's and Gender Studies at LSU - at Louisiana State University Libraries
- WomensNet - Women's Net is a non-profit computer network for women, activities and organizations using computer networks.
- Feminist Resources - Feminism and Women's Studies (Link Unavailable) - This site offers a listing of resources related to feminism, such as
bibliographies on Women's Studies or Feminism, Cultural Studies and Critical
Theory texts, gender related electronic forums etc.
- AU Women's Studies - There are hundreds of
Women's Studies programs in universities and colleges across North America,
but Athabasca University has the distinction of offering the only Bachelor
of Arts major in Women's Studies at a distance in Canada.
- Donna Haraway and the Cyborg (Link Unavailable) - This overview lists all the hypertexts which concern or relate to Donna Haraway and her theories of the Cyborg. Haraway is the author of Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: the Reinvention of Nature, a controversial treatise on socialist 'cyborg feminism.'
- The Commonwealth of Learning - Women in Development - `Barriers to Participation of Women in Technological Education and the Role of Distance Education' (prepared by Dr. Karen Evans) as well as resources on Women in Development.
- Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995
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- Canadian Government Information on the Internet - an updated guide to Canadian government information
(by subject, province, and municipality) from the University of
Waterloo Electronic Library.
- EFF "Issues & Policy - Canada" Archive
- Electronic Frontier Canada - Electronic Frontier Canada (EFC) was founded to ensure that the
principles embodied in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
are protected as new computing, communications,
and information technologies are introduced into Canadian society.
- Selected Canadian Information Policy Documents - Archives and links to significant Canadian info policy resources
- Industry Canada / Industrie Canada - Economic super-ministry for the Canadian Federal
Government. Powers included: telecommunications regulation, consumer
standards, industrial development and assistance.
- Access Canada Initiative - This document lays out the framework for the creation of ACCESS Canada, a utility to
provide a common information systems and services infrastructure for the Federal
Government. It is recommended that this information infrastructure be developed within
the overall context of national information infrastructure evolution in Canada.
- Final Report of the Information Highway Advisory Council - Link Unavailable
- Building the Information
Society: Moving Canada into the 21st Century (Link Unavailable) - In response to the Information Highway Advisory Council's
recommendations, Minister John Manley outlines the government's plans to deal
with social and economic issues posed by the move to an information society and knowledge-based economy.
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Last updated August 27, 1996.