Distance Education Policies
Links to distance education policy documents in Oregon and elsewhere.

• Distance Education Policies, Principles, and Guidelines (8/01)
  Bibliography of various state, institutional, and organizational policy documents and background materials.
• Distance Education Policy Guidelines 2001 (5/01)
  This working document lists proposed Oregon University System distance education policy guidelines and compares these to the 1997 policy framework and to policies of other states.
• SREB Distance Learning Policy Laboratory
  The Southern Regional Education Board Policy Laboratory seeks to reduce or eliminate existing or potential policy barriers to distance learning activities in three broad areas: access, quality, and cost.

Selected Distance Education Conferences (Online and Face-to-face)

Tel e-Learning 2004
February 21-24, 2004. San Diego, CA. Sponsored by the Instructional Technology Council.
NCCE 2004
April 14-17, 2004. Spokane, WA. Sponsored by the Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE).
National Educational Computing Conference - NECC 2004: Jammin' and Jazzin' with Technology
June 20 - 23, 2003. New Orleans, LA. 25th annual educational technology conference; sponsored by the International Society for Technology in Education.
DL2004: 20th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning

August 4-6, 2004. Madison, WI. Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The aim of this annual conference is to foster effective distance learning applications through the sharing of new knowledge, skills, and developments among education and training professionals.

Research
Research findings on distance/online pedagogy; papers, dissertations, faculty discussions; curricular gap studies.

• The Application and Implications of Information Technologies in Postsecondary Distance Education: An Initial Bibliography (12/02)
  A special report from the National Science Foundation. Included are a brief overview of post-secondary distance education, some descriptive statistics about its size and scope, illustrative findings from existing research about the implications of ICT in postsecondary distance education, and an initial bibliography of this research.
• Distance Education: Research
  Distance Education at a Glance, Guide #9, sponsored by Engineering Outreach, University of Idaho, and written by Barry Willis (author of Distance Education: Strategies and Tools and Distance Education: A Practical Guide)
• Distance Education Instruction by Postsecondary Faculty and Staff: Fall 1998
  From the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), this report is based on data from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty.
• Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
  • Special Issue on Faculty Satisfaction (9/00)
  • Special Issue on Learning Effectiveness (9/00)
  JALN also has other full-text articles online.
• Learning Networks Effectiveness Research
  The research website of the Asynchronous Learning Network.
• Survey of the Virtual Universities: Looking for Trends in Online Services for Faculty (10/01)
  Study by Zanville & Morihara (Oregon University System) to discover the range of services being offered online by virtual universities and/or collectives, and the types of services being offered online specifically for faculty/staff by the virtual universities and/or collectives.

Reports/Monographs/White Papers

• Creating Learning Moments in the Web-enhanced Classroom. (2001) M.E. Edwards.
  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association illustrated with examples from OSU professor Mark Edwards' Social Inequality web course and ideas from the entertainment industry.
• Distributed Education: Challenges, Choices, and a New Environment
  A series of monographs produced by the American Council on Education (ACE) and EDUCAUSE. Monographs are available for purchase or can be downloaded free as pdf documents. Monographs in the series include:
  1. Distributed Education and Its Challenges: An Overview (2001)
  2. Maintaining the Delicate Balance: Distance Learning, Higher Education Accreditation, and the Politics of Self-Regulation (2002)
  3. Distributed Learning: New Challenges and Opportunities for Institutional Leadership (2002)
  4. Student Learning as Academic Currency (2002)
  5. Partnerships in Distributed Education (2002)
  6. Barriers to Distance Education (2003)
• Monographs from the Pew Symposia on Learning and Technology (all by Carol Twigg):
  1. Improving Learning & Reducing Costs: Redesigning Large-Enrollment Courses (1999)
  2. Who Owns Online Courses and Course Materials? Intellectual Property Policies for a New Learning Environment (2000)
  3. Quality Assurance for Whom? Providers and Consumers in Today’s Distributed Learning Environment (2000)
  4. Innovations in Online Learning: Moving Beyond No Significant Difference (2001)
• Report of the University of Illinois Teaching at an Internet Distance Seminar (12/99)
• Untangling the Web: Applications of the Internet and Other Information Technologies to Higher Learning (1998)
  RAND report by David McArthur and Matthew Lewis. Covers improving learning and teaching, improving the creation of instruction and learning materials, creating educational communities, competing with new providers, and addressing policy and planning issues.
• What do faculty want?
  An analysis of what faculty want from instructional technology. Article by John Chismar and David Williams, EduCause Quarterly, No. 1, 2001.