Resources & Partners

 

     
 
SoftChalk, LLC http://www.softchalk.com is an award-winning provider of e-Learning
software for worldwide education and business institutions. Specializing in the
development of intuitive, easy-to-use tools, SoftChalk products allow instructors to
create powerful and professional-looking content for e-Learning and smart classrooms

in K-12, higher education and corporate training. 
 

     
 
The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities  http://www.apscu.org/ 
is a voluntary membership organization of accredited, private, postsecondary schools,
institutes, colleges and universities that provide career-specific educational programs.
APSCU has over 1,400 members that educate and support almost two million students
each year for employment in over 200 occupational fields. These schools and colleges
graduate approximately one-half of the technically trained workers who enter the U.S.
workforce each year.
 
USDLA - United States Distance Learning Association - A non-profit association formed to promote the development and application of distance learning for education and training. Includes K-12 education,  www.usdla.org

Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) - The purpose of the Sloan-C is to help learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs, according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines.
http://www.sloan-c.org/ 
 
Sloan C Publication - Moving the Laboratory Online: Situating the Online Laboratory Learning Experience for Future Success - a unique publication drawn from years of Sloan-C collaboration among scientists who design as they design a distributed model for sharing instruments, instructional resources, and expertise among institutions to enhance learning. Chapter 22, The Missing Link in Science Education: Strategies, Options and Practice of Moving the Laboratory Online was written by Peter and Linda Jeschofnig. Click Here to learn more about this book.

National Science Foundation (NSF) - A independent federal agency promoting the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense. http://www.nsf.gov/about

e-Learning Tool Box – Providing a suite of solutions which help manage a distance learning program. We provide tools to assist schools with finding faculty, assessing learner readiness, identifying testing proctors, tracking end-of-course evaluations, ensuring testing integrity, and more ... http://www.elearningtoolbox.com

McGraw-Hill Online Learning - McGraw-Hill Online Learning offers a complete range of online solutions, including the most comprehensive, engaging, thought-provoking online courses available in the market. http://onlinelearning.mhhe.com

The League For Innovation in the Community College - The League is an international organization dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement. We host conferences and institutes, develop Web resources, conduct research, produce publications, provide services, and lead projects and initiatives with our member colleges, corporate partners, and other agencies in our continuing efforts to make a positive difference for students and communities. http://www.league.org/index.cfm

Monterey Institute of Technology and Education - The Monterey Institute for Technology and Education is an educational non-profit organization committed to improving access to education. MITE (pronounced "mighty") sponsors a range of projects from establishing development standards and specifications for online courses, to educational research and multimodal content development.  http://www.montereyinstitute.org/index.html

NN2 (National Network of Healthcare Career Programs in Two-Year Colleges - The purpose of the National Network of Health Career Programs in Two Year Colleges is to promote and encourage innovation, collaboration, and communication among two-year colleges sponsoring health career programs. http://www.nn2.org  NN2 is dedicated to:

  • Promoting and encouraging innovation, collaboration, cooperation, and communication with two-year colleges sponsoring health career programs
  • Developing new leaders in health career education
  • Expressing and advocating the interests of health career programs in two-year colleges (i.e., accreditation issues, practice issues, federal policy issues, etc.)
  • Working collaboratively with other professional communities of interest to further policy related to health career education and higher education in general.
Distance-Educator.com - The place to start looking for everything ...Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration. www.distance-educator.com

Distance Learning Resources and Links - It also has a listing of other distance learning resource pages; PBS On-Line: This site contains information on PBS courses and television programs. http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~cfche/distance.html

Home Education Resource Directory – A comprehensive resource for the home educator http://www.homeeddirectory.com