Resource Materials - Phase 1

Reference Materials

• RM 1-1 Quality On the Line: Benchmarks for Success in Internet-Based Distance Education
  With the rapid growth worldwide of teaching and learning on the Internet, more and more attention is being paid to the nature and quality of online higher education. This report, commissioned by the National Education Association and Blackboard Inc., a leading Internet education company, examines case studies of six colleges and universities that provide Internet-based degree programs.
  
  
• RM 1-2 A New Vision Worth Working Toward - Connected Education and Collaborative Change
  "Connected Education is more of a vision to work toward than an end to reach. Collaborative Change is an ongoing process..."
  by Steven W. Gilbert, President of TLT Group
  
  
• RM 1-3 Top 15 Mistakes of First Time Web Designers
  Some common sense guide to web page design.
  
  
• RM 1-4 Rethinking the role of lecturers and teachers in the age of High-tech tools
  The Changing role of instructors in technology-based education, Young, J.R. (1997), Chronicle of Higher Education