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Virtual Universities: Information for UNH.

Many efforts and experiments in using the Internet are now underway for what used to be called distance education, but which in this college context is often called a virtual university. This is a collection of useful links to representative sites and lists of links.

Related work at UNH and USNH.

  • Blackboard CourseInfo from CIS and the Library at UNH.
  • Far View Project in CEPS at UNH.
  • Web Course in a Box at Keene State College.
  • UNH Teaching Excellence Program.
  • WebCT at College for Lifelong Learning (CLL).

    Course sites (selected examples).

  • California Virtual University.
  • Chronicle of Higher Education's Overview on Virtual Universities.
  • CLASS.COM High School Project at U. Nebraska - Lincoln.
  • CyberEd Online Courses at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
  • Jones International University First Accredited Cyber-University.
  • Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual University.
  • NHPTV Knowledge Network.
  • Project 25 at North Carolina State University.
  • Seattle Community Colleges Online.
  • SmartPlanet (includes ZDU).
  • Southern Regional Electronic Campus for SREB.
  • Virtual Geography Department at University of Texas at Austin.
  • Western Governor's University.

    Diploma mill warnings.

  • Bonanza for Diploma Mills? by Chronicle of Higher Education.

    Selected authoring courseware and tools sites.

  • ADEC List of Courseware at American Distance Education Consortium.
  • Authorware from MacroMedia.
  • ClassPoint from White Pine.
  • CourseInfo from Blackboard.com.
  • ILINC and LearnLinc.
  • ToolBook from Asymetrix.
  • TopClass from WBT.
  • Web Course in a Box from MadDuck Technologies.
  • WebCT.

    Selected reports and lists of resources.

  • College Board - The Virtual University & Educational Opportunity by Gladieux and Swail. [PDF format].
  • Distance Learning Links at Yahoo!
  • Institute for Higher Education Policy.
  • Latham's Web-Based Instructional Design at Florida State.
  • Milheim's Instruction Resource Site at Penn State.
  • "Rethinking the Role of the Professor in an Age of High-Tech Tools", from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  • Teaching at an Internet Distance Report of the University of Illinois VPAA.

    Technology standards and futures.

  • Digital Libraries Initiative funded by NSF/DARPA/NASA.
  • Instructional Management Systems (IMS) Project at Educom.
  • Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax. Page contact: cwis.admin@unh.edu [an error occurred while processing this directive]