• Assiniboine College Distance Education This set of pages contains a comprehensive distance education resource base, including information on internet, interactive television, bulletin boards services, conferences, list services and news groups.
  
  
• Christie Communications Ltd Christie Communications offers course training materials in both print and CBT with a specialisation in Occupational Safety and aspects of the Internet for Business and Education.
  
  
• CTY Distance Learning Project (DLP) This is offered in conjunction with the Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) at Stanford University. The DLP offers a CD-ROM based Advanced Placement English Composition course, along with mathematics courses for third grade through university-level.
  
  
• CTY Writing Tutorials: Distance Education for Talented Youth The Center for Talented Youth (CTY) of The Johns Hopkins University offers its Writing Tutorials to students in grades 6 and above. These are high-school and college-level courses in composition. Some e-mail tutorials are available, but most are carried out via post or fax.
  
  
• CyberSchool Eugene Public Schools District 4J in Eugene, Oregon USA offers high school level credit classes over the Internet for students with e-mail and World Wide Web access. These CyberSchool classes are open to students worldwide with no tuition or fee. However, space is severely limited. For more information contact Tom Layton at layton@4J.lane.edu
  
  
• Distance Education Clearinghouse This brings together distance education information and resources from Wisconsin, national and international sources. New information and resources are being added to the Clearinghouse on a continuing basis. The Clearinghouse builds upon the University of Wisconsin-Extension's comprehensive experience in distance education. It includes resources which are relevant to not only Wisconsin educators, but to anyone interested in virtually any aspect of distance education, including technology and network options, program and course offerings, legislative news, funding sources, etc. There are also links to resources such as listservs, on-line journals, full text databases, as well as other distance education sites from around the world.
  
  
• Edmonds Community College This lists on-line courses available through the college, plus other general information on admissions and international programmes.
  
  
• Education Without Walls Home page of Walden University in Florida, an institution dedicated to providing the established professional with the opportunity to complete a challenging, accredited graduate level degree without sacrificing family and career committments. Masters and doctorate level courses are offered by this establishement.
  
  
• FORUM: For Group Interaction and Conferences This page describes a computer conferencing product developed by Forum Enterprises and links to a Texas A&M site that has publications dealing with applications in teaching.
  
  
• Georgia Statewide Academic and Medical System (GSAMS) The page provides an electronic version of a weekly newsletter. It provides forms and postings for needs or offerings on the system. And it also describes the GSAMS system which is a two-way interactive audio/video system that is the largest in the world.
  
  
• Letters with Einsein: Collaboration in Theory Building in Distance Education Text of three-part paper of the same name by Tony Dean and Ric Caladine discussing terminology in DE relating to 'educators' and 'practitioners', proposing a model to act as a base for writing up case studies of distance education activities and presenting an innovative approach to collaboration, based on iterative documents that rewards those people who make the effort to contribute by naming them as co-authors. URL:
  
  
• Lifelong Learning : The College with Knowledge Web page of US-based educational and career consultants. It specialises in United States distance learning opportunities and how to locate, use and finance them. The presence includes a distance degree search service, a free shuttle bus to on-line colleges, a distance learner's hall of fame, a = free scholarship directory, a free financial aid 'aid', centre; quick consults on-line and distance learning product development.
  
  
• Miami Christian University Miami Bible Institute is an accredited educational institution offering courses and degrees (through to the doctoral level) via the Internet.
  
  
• Nova Southeastern University Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, NSU is a national leader in the delivery of education at a distance, and is currently promoting its new Master's, Doctoral and combined Master's/Doctoral programs in Instructional Technology and Distance Education on this site.
  
  
• ONE TOUCH Systems, Inc. The web page of one of the international leaders in interactive distance learning, which is designed to revolutionize the way people learn. The demonstrates how to incorporate new technologies to your learning environment. in a seamless way.
  
  
• Regent University The college is in its first semester of a new distance education track at the Ph.D. level. The degree is a Ph.D. in Communication. and this page includes relevant program policies ad syllabi, etc., with temporary documents such as student papers, dissertation chapters, etc. handled via the attach document function of e-mail.
  
  
• Publications on Computer Conferencing A slide show, demo disk and literature devoted to the products and projects undertaken by Forum Enterprises.
  
  
• School of Library Science, University of Arizona at Tucson This provides graduate distance library and information science courses as a virtual student option. Students view class videotapes weekly and communicate with their professor(s) and classmates using Internet.
  
  
• Strategic Communications On-line Homepage Strategic Communications consults to US and multinational corporations in all areas of written and spoken communications skills. The Strategic Communications on-line site provides articles on such topics as meeting management and effective presentations, as well as information on additional resources and services provided by the firm.
  
  
• T=E9l=E9Education NB TeleEducation This is a province-wide, bilingual (French-English) open, distributed distance learning network based in Canada, that facilitates the delivery and reception of learning and training programs in New Brunswick. It also contains links to many other training and educational web pages.
  
  
• The Open University, Orlando, Florida The Open University, based in Orlando, Florida, USA is 100 per cent distance-learning, and offers a Master's degree in Entrepreneurship. This page provides a thorough description of university and its current offerings.
  
  
• The New School's Distance Instruction for Adult Learning (DIAL) program This provides access to over 100 courses for non-credit or undergraduate or graduate credit each semester, including specific information and on-line registration.
  
  
• UAMS Department of Anatomy The Department of Anatomy of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences uses Internet web pages for delivery of information to its medical students and prospective graduate students.
  
  
• University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education The home page for the world's largest, university based, residential conference centre. In addition to information about the Center, it also carries an edited version of The Georgia Center Quarterly a publication about adult, continuing and distance education.
  
  
• University of Maryland College Distance Education page Web page compiled by Eugene Rubin, Associate Vice-President at the Office of Instructional Development at the college, which also references a lot of resources located on the web. It gathers together a lot of links from various sources plus some of the compiler's own.
  
  
• University of Tennessee Division of Continuing Studies and Distance Learning Provides information on the distance education and life long learning programmes of the University of Tennessee, including the conference centre, independent study and community projects.

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