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In addition, the site allows you to search the course catalog by department or keyword. It also offers access to the campus store, where you can browse or purchase required and recommended books, applications and utility software, or newsletter and magazine subscriptions. Carolyn Kotlas, of the Center for Instructional Technology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill , has assembled an extensive collection of links to the growing number of colleges, universities, and other educational institutions offering classes or course materials over the Internet. Also included are consortia and other organizations devoted to delivering distance education with networked technologies. TeleCampus , a distributed distance learning center, contains an online course database that lists thousands of online courses from around the world.