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Research and Development for Online-Distributed-Distance Learning

You probably won't be surprised that effective pedagogy in face-to-face classes and online classes is similar in its emphasis on multisensory, learning-centered, active and interactive assignment design as well as an understanding of the delivery media. Whether you plan to incorporate a single computer-enhanced activity or to teach an entire class over the Internet, you can review the pedagogies and practices of other teachers in general and your own discipline in particular.

• Pedagogy: effective teaching practices incorporating information technology and media, a combination of theory and practice
• Gateways: sites that list classes, colleges, and programs on the Web by discipline--some are Web-enhanced, some online
• Publications-Textbook Publishers

Distance-Distributed-Online Learning Gateway Sites

The red stars highlight sites that are either categorized or annotated in ways that help you target your research. As with any extensive research, it may be necessary to read through a lot of less-than-helpful pages in order to locate sites that offer helpful models, including resource lists and online activities that you can link your students to.

• Teaching and Learning on the World Wide Web, Maricopa Community Colleges: This extensive site describes itself: "This searchable collection includes sites that range from courses delivered entirely via the web to courses that offer specific activities related to a class assignment or perhaps courses that offer class support materials via the web."
• World Lecture Hall: Database of Faculty Websites: Teachers submit their own classes for this database listing by discipline. Most are Web-enhanced rather than online classes; however, exploration of some of these class sites yields valuable online resources.
• Education and Technology Resources and Course Material, Virginia Montecino: A wide range of resources categorized but not annotated.
• Distance Learning on the Net, Glenn Hoyle
• New Promise Online Education Index

Pedagogy and Practices for Computer-mediated Teaching and Learning

• Engines of Inquiry: Teaching, Technology, and Learner-Centered Approaches to Culture and History, Randy Bass, Georgetown University: Bass, director of the American Crossroads Project, identifies and describes "six kinds of quality learning" that "information technologies can serve to enhance": distributive learning, authentic tasks and complex inquiry, dialogic learning, constructive learning, public accountability, and reflective and critical thinking.
• Resources for Moderators and Facilitators of Online Discussion, Mauri Collins and Zane L. Berge: Although Collins and Berge emphasize effective use and management of instructional e-mail lists, most of the theory and practice adapts easily to threaded Web discussion forums like WebBoard and the forums within BlackBoard or WebCT.
• Learning in Hyperspace, William Winn, University of Washington: Within a framework of social constructivist situated learning, Winn discusses ways that the Internet can support learning.
• Distance Education: Theory and Practice: Arizona State University: You can see the texts, topics, and student writing from this course in distance education.

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Publications-Textbook Publishers

• New Promise Online Education Index
• Be sure to check the websites of publishers whose books you use or are considering as well as other publishers that have been developing Web materials. Prentice Hall ~ McGraw-Hill ~ Addison-Wesley-Cummings ~ Houghton-Mifflin ~ Allyn & Bacon-Longman