Internet & Teaching
Distance Learning Institutions (for-profit)
Institution | Parent Comany | Enrollment |
---|---|---|
ITT Technical Institute | ITT Educational Services | 6205 |
Everest University | Corinthian Colleges | 9886 |
Art Institute of Pittsburgh | Education Management | 12,803 |
American Intercontinental University | Career Education | 26,630 |
DeVry University | DeVry | 30,127 |
Capella University | Capella Education | 31,998 |
Walden University | Laureate Education | 40,714 |
Ashford University | Bridgeport Education | 46,835 |
Strayer University | Strayer Education | 54,325 |
Kaplan University | Washington Post Company | 71,011 |
University of Phoenix | Apollo Group | 380,232 |
Source: College Navigator (US Dept. of Education)
Resource links
- Accounting Path
- Learn about Accounting Schools, Programs, and Careers
- Accounting/CPA info
- Includes resources and exams to become an Accountant or CPA
- Collaborative Tools
- Includes resources to help virtual teams in online environment
- College Universities
- Find a college, university, or trade school near you
- Constructivism
- Compilation of articles related to Constructivist theory and its applications in Instructional technology
- Copyright Primer
- Primer on Distance Learning & Intellectual Property Issues
- Copyright Concerns in the age of distance education
- Guide to current copyright law and how it applies to educational material distributed on the Web. Written in Q&A format.
- Copyright for the webmaster
- Explains copyright, registration, fair use principles
- Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment
- University of Maryland University College. Includes links to current issues, intellectual property research, workshops and conferences archived presentations
- Department of Education
- News and resources for education including DOE publications
- Discussion Board: Evaluating students' participation
- Theory-based article on evaluating student participation in discussion groups/discussion boards
- Distance Learning on the Net
- A directory of resources on distance learning
- Distance Learning Research
- Research investigating faculty roles in distance education. Data suggests faculty have much to cope with when learning new teaching methods in becoming virtual professors.
- Edtech Listserv
- Education Technology Listserv. With approximately 3500 direct subscribers internationally and about 8000 readers participating through news groups, gopher and WWW sites, EDTECH plays an influential role in determining the future directions of the uses of technology in education for many universities and school districts.
- E-Learning International Journal
- Articles on distance learning, pedagogy, for researchers, developers, and practitioners. Full-text available
- Evaluating Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms
- U. S. Dept. of Education guide to evaluating technology use (Downloadable file also available)
- Evaluation of Online courses
- Links to other evaluation articles
- Evaluating Group Projects
- Links to other evaluation articles
- Faculty Compensation in Distance Learning Articles
- 1. Compensation models in Distance Education
2. Faculty Compensation models for online/distance education
- Financial Planner Education
- Provides information on Financial Planner, Stockbroker, Financial Advisor professions along with Wealth Management, Estate Planning, Regulatory Bodies, Salaries, and Financial Planner Exams.
- Georgia ONmyLine
- Bringing Georgia's public higher education straight to your home, your computer, your fingertips.
- Global Campus
- Includes free curriculum materials, sounds, images, video.
- Harvard Education with New Technologies (ENT)
- Harvard Web Site Explores Issues of Improving Teaching with Technology. The Education with New Technologies (ENT) Web site is a networked community designed to help educators develop powerful learning experiences for students through the effective integration of new technologies.
- Instructional Systems Design Online Manual
- Complete reference to implementing a training program. Includes information on analysis, design, development and implementation, and evaluation phases of ISD (Systems Approach to Training)
- Instructional Systems Design Models
- University of Colorado, School of Education links
- Internet School House
- Excellent resource for school use of Internet. Includes curriculum guides
- LawyerEdu.org
- State by state requirements to become a lawyer
- Learning Theories and Models of Teaching
- Offers information on behaviorism, cognitivism, humanism, cooperative learning, brain-based learning, learning styles, and multiple intelligences
- Meeting Room Scheduler
- MRBS is a free, GPL, web application using PHP and MySQL/pgsql for booking meeting rooms. It's similar in concept to Netscape Calendar, but much cheaper
- Myers Briggs Information
- Information about Myers Briggs personality test. Also provides help on working out your Myers Briggs.
- Online Guide to Accounting Graduate and MBA Programs
- Provides resources of interest to current or potential Accounting graduates
- Senge and the Learning Organization
- Useful resource on Senge's systems theory
- Teaching Tips
- Includes tips on assessment techniques, how people learn, communciation, human development, core abilities, motivating students, course design, preparing a lesson plan, dealing with stress, preparing a course syllabus, difficult behaviors, teaching organization, the first day, & using questions effectively.
- Technology Source
- Free monthly webzine to inform faculty and educational leaders as to how they can use these tools to enhance teaching, learning, and effective administration.
- UMUC-Bell Atlantic Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology
- Excellent resource for demonstrating virtual classroom components that can be used in online courses
- U.S. Colleges of Education
- Provides extensive resource list of Schools, Women's Studies, and On-line reference materials.
- Why bother?
- Provides rationale for teaching with technology (by Steve Gilbert, TLT Group)
- World Lecture Hall
- Listing of faculty use of web by discipline, from accounting to zoology
- World Wide Learn
- Listing of online courses, learning, and education