1998 Peterson's Guide to Distance Learning Programs lists hundreds of courses. www.petersons.com.

John Bear, Bear’s Guide An independent guide to DL programs, famous for its lists of scam programs. Bibliographic data and updates available at Bear’s Web site.

www.degree.net/core.html

The New promise Web site claims to offer the most comprehensive list of on-line college courses as well as other support services for the on-line learner. www.caso.com

Britain’s Open University, probably the largest and oldest wholly DL institution. See their Web site at www.open.ac.uk/

Lynnette R. Porter , Creating the virtual classroom: distance learning with the internet New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1997

(describes not only how to operate a distance classroom, but also how to raise money

for distance equipment, how to determine the market for a course, and how to advertise it)

Colin McCormack and David Jones, Building a web-based education system

New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons. 1998

(focuses more intensively on the instructional situation than its context)

The NODE Learning Technologies Network, a not-for-profit electronic network facilitating information and resource-sharing, collaboration and research in the field of learning technologies for postsecondary education and training. An excellent site, full of resources @ http://node.on.ca/ tfl/forums

Distance Education in Higher Education Institutions a statistical analysis from the National Center for Education Statistics http:/nces.ed.gov/ pubs98/distance.

ED, Education at a Distance. the official monthly of the United States Distance Learning Association. Subscribe by e-mail to charles@usdla.org.

Lifelong Learning a free monthly electronic newsletter for distance learning professionals www.geteducated.com/ vugaz.htm, and send your email address to get on the mailing list.

DERUN (Distance Education Research Update Newsletter) summaries of the research and development work of the staff of Division for Distance and Continuing Education (DDCE) at Central Queensland University in Australia, brief reviews of selected journal articles, commentaries, short conference reports, and researcher profiles.

www.online.ddce.cqu.edu. au/derun/start.html.

The Distance Educational Training Council site @ www.detc.org

This the accrediting agency for DL courses. They offer a number of publications on self-assessment

Distance Education, a quarterly journal published by the University of Southern Queensland, Australia @ www.usq.edu. u/dec/decjourn/demain.htm

(Spring ‘98 issue on best and worst courses gave top honors to an American-history course at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (http:/hum.lss.wisc.edu/hist 102/)

Author: Poppell, Tiffany A, Training via videoconferencing Training & Development v52 n7 Jul 1998

(a good, practical art on how to compensate for flaws of videoconferencing)

Pool, Patricia Teaching via interactive television: An examination of teaching

effectiveness and student satisfaction Journal of Education for Business v72 n2 | 78-81 Nov 1996

Key journals
Adult Learning