ITEC 860

ITEC 860 Distance Education Resources:

A. Large websites with rich resource sets:

1. Distance Education Clearinghouse - University of Wisconsin Extension
The Distance Education Clearinghouse is a comprehensive and widely recognized Web site bringing together distance education information from Wisconsin, national, and international sources. New information and resources are being added to the Distance Education Clearinghouse on a continual basis.

The Clearinghouse is managed and maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, in cooperation with its partners and other University of Wisconsin institutions.

http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html

2. American Center for the Study of Distance Education - Penn State University

American Center for the Study of Distance Education

Penn State’s American Center for the Study of Distance Education (ACSDE) was founded in 1986 to study and disseminate information about distance education in all its forms. As the first center of its kind in the United States, ACSDE has helped to shape distance education practice through its publications, research symposia, leadership institutes, and moderated listserv.

http://www.ed.psu.edu/acsde/

B. Plagiarism and other topics
Help with understanding what is and what isn't acceptable use!

http://education.indiana.edu/~frick/plagiarism/

Office of Instructional Consulting at Indiana University: An archive of "brownbag" talks on topics important to instructional design and distance education.

http://www.indiana.edu/~icy/ebrownbag/

C. APA Style for Citations and References
A few helpful sites:

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (start here):
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html#Handling%20Quotes%20In%20Your%20Text

APA Electronic References:
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

Help is here - from your local SFSU CET!
http://cet.sfsu.edu/etl/content/citations/

Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration

http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/jmain11.html

D. Learner Centered Principles
Background and the descriptions of the principles at http://www.apa.org/ed/lcp.html

Putting the Learner at the Center: Next-generation innovation emphasizes enabling learning in classrooms and e-learning environments. http://www.educause.edu/nlii/annual_review/2003/putlearneratcenter.asp

E. Social Interaction Online
Easy read: Brent Muirhead – Interactivity Research Studies
http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/vol_3_2001/muirhead.html

More difficult: A Constructivist Method for the Analysis of Networked Cognitive Communication and the Assessment of Collaborative Learning and Knowledge-Building
http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/v8n2/pdf/v8n2_campos.pdf

Even harder: EVALUATING ONLINE DISCUSSIONS: FOUR DIFFERENT FRAMES OF ANALYSIS
http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/v8n2/pdf/v8n2_meyer.pdf

The hardest of all: Dr. Beatty’s dissertation on this topic J

http://online.sfsu.edu/~bjbeatty/dissert/dissert_index.htm

And the resulting “interactive” website:

Social Interaction Online (SIO) - http://itec.sfsu.edu/social/pages/index.cfm

F. Front End Analysis / Instructional Design for DL
For an academic paper looking at the sociological side of virtual classrooms, read David Jaffee's manuscript at: http://www.unf.edu/~djaffee/virtualtran.htm (Here's the formal citation - "Virtual Transformation: Web-Based Technology and Pedagogical Change". Teaching Sociology 31 (2), April 2003.)

Try these for some other views:

Concurrent Instructional Design: How to Produce Online Courses Using a Lean Team Approach - U of Syracuse: http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/paper56/paper56.htm

From "Designing Web-based Training" by William Horton, comes this interactive site to explore various instructional strategies he discusses in his book (includes working samples): http://www.designingwbt.com/index.htm

Learner Analysis anyone? This article describes a process to help higher ed students self-assess whether or not they are ready for a DE course. Be sure to view (and take) the learner self-assessment questionnaire linked from the article. Would you ask the same questions if you were creating this short survey?
http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=10123&typeid=156

G. Evaluation in DE - Phillips Five Levels (ROI) and more ...

Phillips discusses an additional level of evaluation - Return on Investment ... his fifth level to add to Kirkpatrick's four levels.

Phillips, J. J. (1996). Measuring the Results of Training. In R. L. Craig (Ed.) The ASTD Training and Development Handbook: A Guide to Human Resource Development. SF: McGraw Hill.

The Concord Consortium's E-learning Model - http://www.concord.org/courses/cc_e-learning_model.html

The Training Foundation - position paper and standards for e-learning - http://www.trainingfoundation.com/articles/default.asp?PageID=997http://www.trainingfoundation.com/standards/default.asp?PageID=395

Institute for Higher Education report on Quality Online - http://www.ihep.org/Pubs/PDF/Quality.pdf

WorldBank Distance Education evaluation white paper:
http://wbweb4.worldbank.org/DistEd/Management/Benefits/cou-02.html

CA Virtual Campus 2003-2004 Report –
and http://www.distance-educator.com/
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