The Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education:
Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever, by Chickering and Gamson, was an early paper (1987) that asserts there are seven learning principles associated with good online practice. WebCT's founder, Murray Goldberg, promotes the use of these principles in Web courses.
http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html

The Campus Computing Project:
The most current data on how computers are being used in post-secondary education across the country.
http://www.campuscomputing.net/

University of Maryland University College: Center for Intellectual Property:
The site discusses issues around intellectual property of particular concern to faculty, both off and online.
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/

A Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism
University of Alberta
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/
This site examines the issues of plagiarism and cyber-plagiarism and explores what faculty can do to prevent, detect, and report plagiarism.

The Plagiarism Resource Center
The University of Virginia
http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/
recently learned that two "plagiarism detection services" are actually fronts for paper mills (AKA "cheat sites") and that you may want to avoid using those services. It is entirely possible that papers you submit to those services will later be sold to other students. The suspicious sites are: plagiserve.com and edutie.com, both of which are owned and operated by the same people who run mightystudents.com, essaymill.com, and essaysonfile.com. They even use the same computers and IP addresses. What an amazing scam!

Their recommendation is that you use only those services that have been verified as legitimate. They are trying to maintain a list of such honest sites at: http://www.plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/links.html

Also, check out a recent review of sites where students can buy term papers online.

American Distance Education Consortium:
A good place to go if you want to find out what is going on in distance education across the country.
http://www.adec.edu/

Teaching, Learning, & Technology Group:
Formerly associated with AAHE, this group works to provide leadership support and development in teaching with technology. They are best know for their Teaching with Technology Roundtables and the Flashlight Project, which focuses on assessment and cost accounting.
http://www.tltgroup.org/about/

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SREB Electronic Campus:
A listing of online courses and programs throughout the southeastern United States. Getting your course approved on and this list is one indicator of meeting minimum quality standards.
http://www.electroniccampus.org/

EDUCAUSE:
One of the major organizations in the field of information technology and higher education.
http://www.educause.edu/

University of Maryland University College:
An annotated set of links on a wide range of topics in distance education and online learning.
http://umuc.edu/distance/odell/cvu/ann_links.html

Faculty Issues in E-Learning Environments:
An annotated set of links on a wide range of topics of special interest to faculty teaching online or at a distance.
http://www.spjc.edu/eagle/BEEP/BEEP8.htm

US Distance Learning Association:
A national association concerned with both higher education and K-12 education using distance technology.
http://www.usdla.org/

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International Center for Distance Learning:
This looks like the United Kingdom version of the US Distance Learning Association.
http://icdl.open.ac.uk/

Distance Education Clearinghouse:
Operated by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, this site is a treasure house of information on distance education.
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html

ICTE Educational Technology Resource Library:
This is a listing of the proceedings from the last several meetings of the International Conference on Technology and Education.
http://www.icte.org/edtech12.HTM

American Center for the Study of Distance Education:
Operating out of Penn State, this is the site for the American Journal of Distance Education and also has links to other conferences and special events.
http://www.ed.psu.edu/acsde/

Extending the Classroom Walls Electronically
An adaptation from New Paradigms for College Teaching,this article addresses issues, benefits and differences, of using electronic communication in the college classroom. Tom Creed describes the characteristics of the learning contexts that influence the flow of information and participation in class and being online.
http://www.ntlf.com/html/sf/vc_extend.htm

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Updated Jan 8, 2004     

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