Learning via Internet: Pointers
Jacques Monnard
On-line courses and teaching materials
- The World Lecture Hall
- http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html
- The World Lecture Hall contains links to pages
created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to
deliver class materials. For example, you will find
course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class
calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc.
- Teaching and Learning on the WWW
- http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/
- A list of several hundreds examples of how the web is
being used as a medium for learning.
- Computer Science Education Links
- http://www.cacs.usl.edu/~mccauley/edlinks/
- A collection of links to materials that support the
teaching of Computer Science courses and to other
education-related resources.
- Virtuelle Fernuniversität Hagen
- http://vu.fernuni-hagen.de/feuvus_f.html
- The project "Virtuelle Universität - Fern
Universität Online" integrates all functions of a
traditional university into a homogeneous system. These
include not only the teaching materials, but also
extended communication facilities and access to
administrative functions.
- UOL Publishing
- http://www.uol.com/
- An example of a publisher of on-demand and
interactive web-based courseware. UOL serves the academic
and the corporate education market through the World Wide
Web or corporate intranets.
Organizations and service centers
- Edutech: Higher Education and New Technologies in
Switzerland
- http://www.edutech.ch
- The edutech site registers applications of new
information technologies in teaching at Swiss
universities and other institutions of higher education.
It also serves as a meeting point for all persons and
groups working in this field.
- The NODE Learning Technologies Network
- http://node.on.ca/
- The NODE is a not-for-profit electronic network
facilitating information and resource-sharing,
collaboration and research in the field of learning
technologies for postsecondary education and training.
- EDUCAUSE
- http://www.educause.edu/
- EDUCAUSE is an international organization with the
mission of enabling the transformational changes
occurring in higher education through the use of
information resources and technologies in teaching and
learning.
- EDEN &endash; European Distance Education Network
- http://www.eden.bme.hu/
- EDEN's aim is to foster developments in distance
education through the provision of a platform for
co-operation and collaboration between a wide range of
institutions, networks and individuals concerned with
distance education in Europe.
Resource directories
- Educational technologies@TECFA
- http://agora.unige.ch/tecfa/edutech/welcome_frame.html
- The educational technology page of the World Wide Web
Virtual Library.
- Distance Education Clearinghouse
- http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html
- This page gives access to a wide range of information
about distance education. New information and resources
are being added on a continuing basis.
- Yahoo - Education
- http://www.yahoo.com/Education/
- Good starting point for all kinds of education
related information, including distance education and
online teaching and learning.
Journals
- Educom Review
- http://www.educom.edu/web/pubs/edreview.html
- Educom Review explores the changing ways we will
work, learn, and communicate in the digital world of the
21st century.
- First Monday
- http://www.firstmonday.dk/
- First Monday is a peer-reviewed journal on the
Internet. Its aim is to publish original articles about
the Internet and the Global Information Infrastructure.
- Journal of Interactive Media in Education
- http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/
- The aim of this journal is to foster a
multidisciplinary and intellectually rigorous debate on
the theoretical and practical aspects of interactive
media in education, through an innovative use of
interactive Net-based media.
- Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
- http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/index.html
- Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine reports
about people, events, technology, public policy, culture,
practices, study, and applications related to human
communication and interaction in online environments.
- Online Journals
- http://www.uwex.edu/disted/lobline.htm
- A list of on-line journals dealing with distance
education and related themes.
Integrated learning packages
- An overview of integrated learning packages
- http://node.on.ca/tfl/integrated/
- Integrated learning packages are software programs
that provide a range of tools for web-based course
development and delivery. This page contains information,
evaluations and reviews of available tools.
- Lotus Learning Space
- http://www2.lotus.com/home.nsf/tabs/learnspace
- Learning Space is a tool for creating and delivering
education and training. It combines the convenience of
distance learning with the face-to-face classroom
benefits of a collaborative, instructor-facilitated
environment.
- Top Class
- http://www.wbtsystems.com/
- Top Class is a tool for web based training, combining
an integrated virtual classroom, content creation and
management capabilities, and people management abilities.
- WebCT
- http://homebrew1.cs.ubc.ca/webct/
- WebCT is a tool that facilitates the creation of
Web-based educational environments by non-technical
users. It can be used to create entire on-line courses,
or to simply publish materials that supplement existing
courses.
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