Professional Resources for Distance Educators
Reading Room: Distance Education Journals and Publications
The publications listed here are available online to NDSU faculty and require no additional login or subscription fees in order access full-text articles.
AACE Journal: Current Issue
Formerly the Educational Technology Review. Designed to provide a multidisciplinary forum and focal point for AACE members to exchange information between disciplines, educational levels, and information technologies. Archived issues also available on the site.
http://www.aace.org/pubs/aacej/current.cfm
American Journal of Distance Education
The internationally recognized journal of research and scholarship in the field of American distance education from Penn State University. It is designed for use by teachers in schools, colleges, and universities; trainers in corporate, military, and professional fields; adult educators; researchers; and other specialists in education, training, and communications.
http://www.ajde.com
Campus Technology (formerly Syllabus)
Formerly titled Syllabus, and read by more than 300,000 educators worldwide, this magazine includes feature articles, case studies, product reviews, and profiles of technology use at the instructor, departmental, and institutional levels. http://campustechnology.com/index.aspx
Chronicle of Higher Education-Distance Education: Information Technology Section
Daily updates and archives of distance education news. Full articles require password for access. http://chronicle.com/infotech/
Educause Review
Explores the impact of information technologies on higher education.
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er
International Journal of Technology and Design Education: Current Issue
Seeks to encourage research and scholarly writing about any aspect of technology and design education. Critical, review, and comparative studies are particularly prominent, as are contributions which draw upon other literatures, such as those derived from historical, philosophical, sociological or psychological studies of technology or design, in order to address issues of concern to technology and design education.
http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/102912/
Journal of Educational Technology and Society
A quarterly journal with articles on the issues affecting the developers of educational systems and educators who implement and manage such systems. The articles should discuss the perspectives of both communities and their relation to each other:
http://www.ifets.info/
Journal of Technology Education
Focuses on research, theory, philosophy, and the practice of teaching technology. Full isses of the publication are available in PDF format.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/
KAIROS
An electronic journal designed to serve as a peer-reviewed resource for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing at the college and university level, including Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature. http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/
Learning Technology
The Learning Technology aims to report the activities of the Learning Technology Task Force including various announcements, work in progress, projects, participation opportunities, additions/modifications to the website and so on. In short, it serves as a channel to keep everyone aware of Task Force's activities.
http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues.html
Sloan-C View: Perspectives in Quality Online Education
The intention of the Sloan-C View is to provide useful information about online learning, commentaries about the field and pointers to more details about the work of the Sloan Consortium. The Consortium currently has approximately 1834 active organizational members, including colleges, universities, consortia, and vendors.
http://www.aln.org/publications/view/index.asp
T.H.E. Journal
For educators involved in integrating technology on their campuses and into their curricula. http://www.thejournal.com/
Techknowlogia: International Journal for the Advancement of Knowledge and Learning
Publication of this journal is currently suspended, but past issues are available online for free. An international online journal that provides policy makers, strategists, practitioners and technologists at the local, national and global levels with a strategic forum to: explore the vital role of different information technologies (print, audio, visual and digital) in the development of human and knowledge capital; share policies, strategies, experiences and tools in harnessing technologies for knowledge dissemination, effective learning, and efficient education services; review the latest systems and products of technologies of today; and peek into the world of tomorrow.
http://www.techknowlogia.org/
TECHNOS Quarterly
A forum for the discussion of ideas about the use of technology in education with a focus on reform. http://www.technos.net/
Virtual University Gazette
A free monthly newsletter covering the Internet University movement and serving over 30,000 distance learning professionals and students at the adult, post-secondary levels. http://www.geteducated.com/index.php
Professional Educational Organizations for Distance Educators
This is a listing of organizations which are both well-regarded in the field and to which North Dakota State University has active subscription.
The LERN Faculty Club
Online at: http://www.teachingonthenet.org/faculty_club/features.htm
Professional development for your faculty Resources, chats, networking, free consulting with online experts, and more. North Dakota State University Distance and Continuing Education along with Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences has enrolled NDSU as a LERN Faculty Club member. This membership allows access to many beneficial information through LERN. Discounts for workshops and conferences are also a great benefit.
Resources are available for faculty teaching:
- Online Courses
- Hybrid
- Traditional Classroom
Top Features:
- Four Free online conferences (per year) for the first 300 faculty.
- Receive a discount to the LERN Faculty Development Institute.
- Free consulting. Ask your toughest questions.
- Monthly chats. Network with your colleagues.
- Practical, how-to tips. New every month.
- Virtual Tours. Best practices and more.
- E-LERN. Email newsletter.
Access to the LERN resoures online requires a username and password. To get yours, please send your name and department to Lisa McNamara by email at: lisa.mcnamara@ndsu.edu.
Sloan Consortium
Online at: http://www.sloan-c.org/faculty
The Sloan Consortium is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of online education. Membership in the Sloan Consortium provides knowledge, practice, community, and direction for educators.
Benefits Include:
- Limited number of $50 discount coupons toward the Annual Conference on Online Learning Networks http://www.sloanconsortium.org/aln
- Limited number of $150 discount coupons toward over 40 Sloan-C online workshops for faculty, staff, and administrators in online education. For a complete list of online workshops in 2009 go to: http://www.sloan-c.org/2009ws_schedule
Full access to:
- Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
- Sloan-C effective practices
- Sloan-C catalog
- Survey reports
- Sloan-C listserv
- Sloan-C network
- Conference proceedings
- Professional networking
EDUCAUSE (and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative)
Online at: http://www.educause.edu/ and http://www.educause.edu/eli
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Membership is open to institutions of higher education, corporations serving the higher education information technology market, and other related associations and organizations.
Resources include:
- Professional development activities
- Applied research
- Strategic policy advocacy
- Teaching and learning initiatives
- Online information services
- Print and electronic publications, including books, monographs, and the magazines EDUCAUSE Quarterly and EDUCAUSE Review
- Special interest collaborative communities
- Awards for leadership and exemplary practices
The current membership comprises more than 2,200 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 250 corporations, with more than 17,000 active members.
You will need an EDUCAUSE log-in to access resources. If you do not have one, just click the Login link in the upper right corner of the Web site and follow the instructions for creating an EDUCAUSE profile.
UCEA
Online at: http://www.ucea.edu
The University Continuing Education Association is an institutionally-based membership organization. Its membership is composed of regionally accredited, degree-granting universities and colleges.
Access to:
- Professional development modules
- Communities of Practice
- National professional development conferences and seminars sponsored by UCEA http://www.ucea.edu/profdev/events.html
- News, best practices, surveys, and professional development information on UCEA?s website
- Advanced reports on national legislation, policies, and funding opportunities relevant to continuing education
- InFocus Newsletter
- Continuing Higher Education Review
- Management Monographs
- Lifelong Learning Trends
WCET
WCET provides a wide range of benefits to help its members stay abreast of the latest thinking and happenings in the field of e-learning. All individuals affiliated with NDSU Distance & Continuing Education- both staff and students- are eligible for the member benefits.
- Discounts on professional development programs, including the annual conference.
- Subscription to the bi-weekly digest, which highlights the most pressing e-learning topics culled from articles in an array of important publications.
- Membership in the online community.
- Discounts on consulting services through WCET Consulting, providing in-depth and timely assistance in a wide range of e-learning areas.