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For this issue's interesting Websites, we are indebted to the regular gleanings of the World Wide Web that "tireless" Arun Tripathi undertakes for his Distance Learning list.
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Online Pedagogy Connected Distance Learning
Portal
Cable Green, a doctoral student in Communication at The Ohio State University, has created an "Online Pedagogy Connected Distance Learning Portal." The site includes information on distance learning research, bibliographies and clearinghouses, philosophies and theories of learning in an on-line environment, development and design of on-line courses, tutorials and orientations, course examples, issues of plagiarism, assessment and evaluation.
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Computer-Mediated Communication Sites
Detailed introduction and tips on how to set up asynchronous and synchronous communications
Contains links to articles related to communication over the Web
Special issue on CMC as a teaching method
Links to practical information on numerous areas for establishing computer-mediated communications
ADEC page on virtual universities - site also includes links to online resources and courseware tools
Opinion articles and reader discussion on accreditation of virtual universities
This article addresses some of the generic issues surrounding the development of virtual universities
Links from the US Association for Institutional Research
Reports on research investigating the development of virtual universities from a student's point of view