Communication and Distributed Learning Course Development Tools

Zebu Educational Groupware. This project, out of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, models a high level of student and teacher interaction, and allows for varying levels of modification to create new projects.
ConnectText, an electronic forum for bringing together authors of electronic publications and professors who are seeking texts for adoption in their courses.
Media evaluation tools available in British Columbia and through a US company and here.
Choosing Learner Activities for Specific Learning Outcomes: A Tool for Constructivist Computer Assisted Learning Design by Barney Dalgarno, Charles Stuart University, Australia.

Budgeting Resources

"The Internet, Telecommunications, and Education: A Buyer's Guide" features descriptions of hardware and software solutions for collaboration and distance learning.
Return-on-Investment - ASTD Publications.
Make sure to examine the budgeting resources we've collected in the CRDDL archive.

Evaluation and Assessment

A survey tool used for the review of web-based courses
Evaluation - ASTD Publications
Topics in Writing, U. Colorado Boulder.
Calibrated Peer Review
System at UCLA
A Peer Review tool developed by Mark Alway at UWired.
learners evaluate each other's contribution to the project in an evaluation form used by a South African high-school teacher.

Distributed Learning Course Management Tools

SUNY Course Management Software. The State University of New York has developed extensive course management systems software.

 

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Center for Research and Development in Distributed Learning
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Steve Kerr and Bill Winn, Principal Investigators
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