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Comprehensive Distance Education List of Resources
http://talon.extramural.uiuc.edu/ramage/disted.html
A collection of links to distance education related sites. Links are divided into four categories: educational, corporate, program and collections of links but are not described in any way.

Distance Education Clearinghouse
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html
By far the best distance education site. An excellent, well-filtered introduction to the world of distance education: introductory guides, a lot of references and bibliographies, University of Wisconsin-Extension.

Distance Education Resources for Instructors and Students
http://www.ihets.org/distance_ed/resources/
The Internet resources in this annotated listing are of interest to distance education faculty members and students. Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS)

Distance Learning Directory
http://www.con-ed.howard.edu/distance_learning.htm
Directory on various distance education related topics, e.g. DL in different levels of education, electronic classrooms, teleconferencing etc.
Howard University Continuing Education Program

The European Telematics Horizontal Observatory Service
http://www.ethoseurope.org/
ETHOS will provide a horizontal observatory service to the Telematics Applications Programme. It monitors and assesses the deployment of applications of information and communication technologies, developments in market trends, state of deployment of telematics applications and user needs in Europe and other countries and regions and developments in both computer and/or telecommunications technologies.

Hadley School for the Blind - tuition-free distance education
The Hadley School offers over 90 tuition-free distance education courses to blind and visually impaired individuals 14+ years of age, parents of blind children, family members of blind adults, and professionals working in blindness. Courses are available in braille, large print, audiocassette, and online.

Education First
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/edfirst/eftc.html
A Pacific Bell project aimed at providing technology resources to the 9,000 California schools and libraries in the company's service territory.

K-12 Distance Learning Demonstration Project
http://www3.iptv.org/iowa_database/neweb/Demo/home.html

Faculty Develpment Clearinghouse for Videoconferencing Instruction
http://www.csus.edu/ums/fdc_home.html
A project at CSU Sacramento for the purpose of supplying those interested with resources for videoconferencing instruction and distance education.

Educause
http://www.educause.edu/
Through direct services and cooperative efforts, Educause offers leadership and assistance to its member institutions in order to address critical issues surrounding the role of information technology in higher education.

The Finnish Association for Distance Education (FADE)
http://oyt.oulu.fi/fade/eng/fadeesc.htm
An association for distance education institutions or organisations which offer higher education at a distance. Includes 10 universities and university colleges.

The International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL)
http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk/
A documentation centre specialising in collecting and disseminating information on distance education worldwide.

International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (IMTC)
http://www.imtc.org/
A non-profit corporation composed of members and affiliates from all over the world to promote, encourage, and facilitate the development and implementation of interoperable multimedia teleconferencing solutions based on open international standards.

International Teleconferencing Association
http://www.itca.org/
A professional association linking users, providers, strategists, educators, learners, managers and employees using teleconferencing, telecollaborative and distance education technologies.

Norwegian Association for Distance Education (NADE)
http://www.nki.no/nade-nff/nadeindx.html
NADE is a membership organization. It's members are institutions from within the private, other independent non-public and the public sector.

Swedish Association for Distance Education (SADE)
http://www.mh.se/sverd/english.html
Association for people or organizatons within all fields of distance education.

Distum - The Swedish Agency for Distance Education

Videoconferencing and Distance Learning
http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/papers/vidconf/abbott2.html
A report on two case studies of courses delivered by videoconferencing in the University of Ulster. An external evaluator was used to conduct interviews with the tutors and the study groups. The report includes a background section on the technical, pedagogical and managerial context of teaching and learning by videoconferencing.
Abbott, Dallat, Livingston, Robinson

Video Conferencing and Learning in Higher Education
http://www.man.ac.uk/CGU/SIMA/video3/contents.html
Dr. Lynne Coventry, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh

Videoconferencing and the Adult Learner
http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/papers/vidconf/dallat1.html
An excellent and very comprehensive research report made by the University of Ulster on the effectiveness of videoconferencing as a medium for cross-campus distance learning.
Dallat, Fraser, Livingston, Robinson