This menu of websites is for the practitioner of distance education, and for anyone who is interested in foundations for good practice. These websites explore extensively learning theory and practice in distance education, and instructional design of disted programs. Whether you are a learner or a faculty member, you may find some of these links informative and helpful both from a theoretical and a practical perspective. The argument made here is that assessing student performance is fundamental to good distance education. These sites also provide useful models for developing your own assessment strategies.
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Examine these to see if they model the type of online teaching that you would like to do, and bookmark any sites that strike a chord. There are two sets of links here. The first set takes you to search engines that are proven in their ability to find information, especially works of a scholarly nature. This menu of links is for webmasters, web page authors, and others who want to know about HTML, the language that is used to create pages such as the one you are reading. There are also links to various download sites for software of all kinds.