Organisations and link collections

• The Open University has an obvious range of groups which work in this field. Amongst these are:
  • the Knowledge Media Institute, which has developed KMi Stadium, a large-scale experiment in telepresence;
  • the Institute for Educational Technology (IET);
  • and the International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL), which has a CD-rom database of distance-education documents, which is currently also available online.
• The Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) comprises 23 subject-based centres working to encourage the use of learning technologies in UK higher education.
• The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) publishes a number of journals and newsletters.
• ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is just that. It includes a collection of search resources.
• Course listings, from members of the wwwdev listserv.

Other ones:

• Paul Chanin has compiled a list of UK Continuing Education Departments.
• Dr. E's Eclectic Compendium of Electronic Resources for Adult/Distance Education.
• The Distance Education Clearinghouse is a large collection of resources on distance education, which includes a review of interactive delivery systems
• The Institute for the Learning Sciences.
• The Centre for the Study of Advanced Learning Technologies (CSALT) has a collection of resources.
• University of Michigan Academic Outreach has a selection of internet resources concerned with distance education.
• The Distance Learning Resource Network (DLRN) disseminates information on distance education.
• Sue Tickner at Glasgow has a growing collection of distance education links.
• Mark Stiles at Staffordshire has a large collection of Computers in Teaching and Learning links.
• Links to Online Educational Technology Articles, broken down into categories.
• Innovations in teaching and learning in Higher Education: project at Plymouth

Collections of courses

• The Open University's ICDL database also has a collection of course information.
• The World Lecture Hall is a collection of courses which are already being delivered electronically.
• Gymnasia Virtuales runs many courses online.
• CASO maintains a directory of courses available online