Theory and Research

• American Distance Education Consortium - On-Line Learning Resources - a non-profit distance education consortium composed of approximately 65 state universities and land-grant colleges. The consortium was conceived and developed to promote the creation and provision of high quality, economical distance education programs and services to diverse audiences, by the land grant community of colleges and universities, through the most appropriate information technologies available.
• ARIADNE Foundation Home - created to exploit and further develop the results of the ARIADNE and ARIADNE II European Projects, which created tools and methodologies for producing, managing and reusing computer-based pedagogical elements and telematics supported training curricula.
• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) - CEN, The European Committee for Standardization, and CENELEC, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization, are now collaborating on their standards work in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
• International Research Foundation for Open Learning (IRFOL) - research agency with a focus on research to guide the development of policy for open and distance learning
• Distance Learning in Higher Education - A national advocate and institutional voice for self-regulation of academic quality through accreditation, CHEA is an association of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities and recognizes 60 institutional and programmatic accrediting organizations.
• elearningpost - Explore news, views and stories around Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management and more.
• Quality Online Education - New Research Agendas - article describes current debates within quality assurance and delivery policies within universities and proposes four themes as ways to consider these debates and their relationships with each other. Arising from this discussion are possible research agendas that are likely to increase in importance as universities' use and reliance upon online technologies increases and as the stakes for ensuring quality are raised.