Distance education publications, organizations, and networks

These links are provided as sources for information, ideas, trends, and tips related to distance education, e-learning, and using technology to enhance teaching and learning.

Magazines, newsletters, journals, and other publications

• Distance-Educator.com: The technological revolution has brought networked computing to training and education. This revolution has the potential to democratize teaching, learning, and training. Distance-Educator.com is a source for numerous information and issues related to distance education and e-learning.
• D-Lib Magazine: A solely electronic publication with a primary focus on digital library research and development, including but not limited to new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues.
• The e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology: An international peer-reviewed electronic journal with educational and training content of interest to policy-makers, managers, investors, professional staff, technical staff, and academics.
• EDUCAUSE Review: Targeted to key decision-makers in higher education, presidents, chancellors, board members, and chief information officers.
• Harvard Business Review: Offers original research and first-hand perspectives from leading thinkers around the world.
• Innovate: Journal of Online Education: The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings.
• The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology: IJEDICT aims to strengthen links between research and practice in ICT in education and development in hitherto less developed parts of the world, e.g., developing countries (especially small states), and rural and remote regions of developed countries.
• The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning: A refereed, open access e-journal that disseminates research, theory, and best practice in open and distance learning worldwide.
• T.H.E. Journal: T.H.E. Journal is dedicated to informing and educating K-12 senior-level district and school administrators, technologists, and tech-savvy educators within districts, schools, and classrooms to improve and advance the learning process through the use of technology.
• The Journal of Educators Online: An online, double-blind, refereed journal by and for instructors, administrators, policy-makers, staff, students, and those interested in the development, delivery, and management of online courses in the arts, business, education, engineering, medicine, and science.
• League Connections: An e-newsletter serving community colleges.
• Midwestern Higher Education Compact newsletter: One of four interstate compacts in the nation devoted to improving the quality of higher education in its region, MHEC is the Midwest's largest interstate resource-sharing commission for higher education.
• The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration: A peer-reviewed electronic journal offered free each quarter over the Web.

Professional organizations

• ADEC: The American Distance Education Consortium is an international consortium of state and land grant institutions providing economic distance education programs and services via the latest and most appropriate information technologies.
• CIC: The Committee on Institutional Cooperation is a consortium of 12 research universities whose mission is to advance academic excellence by sharing resources and promoting and coordinating collaborative activities across the member universities.
• EDUCAUSE: EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
• ICE: Indiana Computer Educators is a non-profit professional group whose mission is assisting educators to enhance learning through the use of technology. ICE is the state professional organization for 2,500 teachers, administrators, technology directors, and school technical staff.
• INCOLSA: INCOLSA is Indiana's network providing leadership in cooperative activities for Indiana libraries.
• Internet2: Led by more than 200 U.S. universities, working with industry and government, Internet2 develops and deploys advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet
• League for Innovation in the Community College: The league is an international consortium serving community colleges.
• MHEC: One of four interstate compacts in the nation devoted to improving the quality of higher education in its region, the Midwestern Higher Education Compact is the Midwest's largest interstate resource-sharing commission for higher education.
• PALNI: The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana was organized as a non-profit membership organization in 1992. It provides sophisticated resource-sharing and library automation services to its 24 member libraries.
• UCEA: The University Continuing Education Association is among the oldest college and university associations in the U.S. As the nation's principal organization for continuing higher education, the association assists institutions of higher learning and affiliated nonprofits with the goal of increasing access through an array of educational programs and services.
• WCET: The Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications is open to providers and users of educational technologies to promote and advance the effective use of technology in higher education