EDC&I 505 -- Journals,
Sites, etc.
Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction -- DISTANCE
LEARNING
Useful Journals, Web Sites, Resources
JOURNALS
(NOTE: Many of these are available as e-journals
through the UW libraries; be sure to check UW holdings before paying for copies
or reprints of articles directly from the journal itself!)
American Journal of Distance Education
An
internationally recognized journal on research and scholarship in American
distance education; published by the American Center for Distance Education at
Pennsylvania State University.
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology
A
journal focusing on research related to learning technologies; published by the
Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada.
http://www.cjlt.ca/archivedissues.html
Distance Education
An
international journal of the Open and Distance Learning Association of
Australia that disseminates research in distance education, open learning, and
flexible learning.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01587919.asp
EDUCAUSE Quarterly
A
journal focusing on the planning, development, management, evaluation, and use
of information resources on college and university campuses. See also other Educause publications.
http://www.educause.edu/pub/eq/
International Journal of E-learning (IJEL)
A
journal focusing on theory, research, development, and practice of e-learning
in corporate, government, healthcare, and higher education sectors; published
by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. http://www.aace.org/pubs/ijel/default.htm
International Review of Research in Open and Distance
Learning (IRRODL)
An
international online journal focusing on theory and best practice in open and
distance learning.
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN)
A
journal focusing on best practices in online learning; published by the Sloan
Consortium. http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/index.asp
Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR)
A
journal focusing on publishes theory, design, implementation, effectiveness,
and impact on education and training of interactive learning environments;
published by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
http://www.aace.org/pubs/jilr/
Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME)
An
international journal of the Open University (UK) focusing on theory and practice
in the educational use of interactive media. http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/
Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance
Learning
An
international journal focusing on a variety of issues in open, flexible, and
distance learning in both educational and training contexts.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02680513.asp
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
(TOJDE)
An
online journal focusing on issues, theory, research, and information services
of students in open and distance learning; published by Anadolu
University. Turkey has significant
experience with distance learning.
ORGANIZATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL GROUPS
American Educational
Research Association (AERA)
Largest
and oldest group promoting educational research generally; several sub-groups
deal with technology, esp. Div. C (Learning and Instruction) and Division J
(Postsecondary Education).
American Society for
Training and Development (ASTD)
The
major group dealing with training issues
Association for Computing
Machinery
Major
group for computing professionals; has several relevant education and on-line
related special interest groups (SIGs), esp. SIG CHI (including sub-group on
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW) and SIG WEB.
Association for Educational
Communications and Technology (AECT)
Well-established
group focusing on all aspects of technology use in education, design, etc.
http://www.aect.org/default.asp
Educause
Largest
US group dealing with technology use in higher education, and has been a major
participant in activities regarding on-line and distance learning
Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Another
(with ACM) major technical group; several education-related publications
http://www.ieee.org/portal/site
US Distance Learning
Association (USDLA)
Major
group that addresses distance learning
CENTERS
Center for the Virtual
University
At
University of Maryland, which has been a US pioneer in the area of on-line and
distance learning.
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cvu/links/events.html
Centre for Research in
Education and Educational Technology
The
British Open University was the first major instantiation of distance learning;
they study it extensively
Digital Learning Commons
(Washington)
A
local effort to use on-line resources in support of K-12 education.
http://www.learningcommons.org/
The Media Lab
MIT's
famous lab investigating all aspects of technology and human life
Sloan Consortium
A
group of higher education institutions concerned with on-line education and
learning; some useful reports and statistics.
http://www.sloan-c.org/resources/index.asp
Xerox PARC (Palo Alto
Research Center)
Lab
that looks at many aspects of technology integration into work and office
environments, well-regarded research program
NEWSLETTERS AND BLOGS
Campus Technology
Oriented
towards higher education users; regular articles dealing with e-learning
Ed-Cast: The Higher
Education Podcast Repository
Interesting
attempt to aggregate high ed podcasts.
ELEARNSPACE
Variety
of technology-related blogs from academics; has a somewhat more theoretical
focus.
http://www.elearnspace.org/edutechblogs.htm
How We Learn
Phil
Bell's blog on learning
http://how-we-learn.blogspot.com/
Kathy Schrock's Educational
Technology Blog Listing
List
of blogs, strong K-12 school focus
http://www.kathyschrock.net/edtechblogs.htm
Online Learning Update
Good,
regular blog
http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/blogger.html
FOUNDATIONS AND NON-PROFITS
Imagining the Internet
Interesting
site that deals with communication technology and society generally
http://www.elon.edu/predictions/
Knowledgworks Map of Future
Forces Affecting Education
Good
effort to identify the variety of technological and social forces that have
some impact on educational development and change. Interesting interactive "map."
Partnership for 21st
Century Skills
An
attempt to define what skills students will need in order to be successful in
the future; technology is a part, but not the whole, of what they focus on.
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/
Pew Internet & American
Life Project
Does
some of the best empirical work on how technology is affecting everyday life in
the USA