Begun in 1990, The Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study ofthe role of information technology in American higher education. The project’s national studies draw on qualitative and quantitative data to help inform faculty, campus officials, policy-makers and others interested in a wide array of information technology issues that affect U. S. colleges and universities.

• Campus Computing Surveys: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Membership is open to institutions of higher education, corporations serving the higher education information technology market, and other related associations and organizations.

News Link: http://www.educause.edu/PressReleases/661
Conferences/Events: http://www.educause.edu/ConferencesSeminarsandInstitutes/31

• "Core Data" Annual Surveys: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
• "7 Things You Should Know About" emerging technologies ...
  2008 topics = Lulu
  2007 topics = Skype, citizen journalism, data visualiazation, haptics, cyberinfrastructure, twitter, wikipedia, Facebook II, RSS, creative commons, open journaling, digital storytelling
  2006 topics = ebooks, blogs, virtual worlds, grid computing, Facebook, wikis, YouTube, etc.

Founded by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education in 1989, WCET is a membership-supported organization open to providers and users of educational telecommunications. Members represent the higher education community, nonprofit organizations, and corporations. WCET's members span the globe, but most are in the U.S. Collectively, they represent the most innovative thinkers in the use of educational technologies, either on-or-off campus, that can be found anywhere.

News Link: http://www.wcet.info/services/communications/

ADEC is a non-profit distance education consortium composed of approximately 65 state universities and land-grant colleges. The consortium was conceived and developed to promote the creation and provision of high quality, economical distance education programs and services to diverse audiences, by the land grant community of colleges and universities, through the most appropriate information technologies available.

News Link: http://www.adec.edu/whats-new.html
Conferences/Events: http://www.adec.edu/conf-work.html

ASTD is the world's largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals. ASTD's 70,000 members and associates come from more than 100 countries and thousands of organizations--multinational corporations, medium-sized and small businesses, government, academia, consulting firms, and product and service suppliers.

ADL employs a structured, adaptive, collaborative effort between the public and private sectors to develop the standards, tools and learning content for the learning environment of the future. The vision of the ADL Initiative is to provide access to the highest-quality learning and performance aiding that can be tailored to individual needs and delivered cost-effectively, anytime and anywhere.... SCORM

News Link: http://www.adlnet.gov/News/index.cfm

The Distance Education and Training Council (formerly National Home Study Council) has been the standard-setting agency for correspondence study and distance education institutions since it was established in 1926. Its purpose was, and still is today, "to foster and preserve high quality, educationally sound and widely accepted distance education and independent learning institutions."

The mission of the IMS Global Learning Consortium is to support the adoption and use of learning technology worldwide. IMS is a non-profit organization that includes more than 50 Contributing Members and affiliates. These members come from every sector of the global e-learning community. They include hardware and software vendors, educational institutions, publishers, government agencies, systems integrators, multimedia content providers, and other consortia. The Consortium provides a neutral forum in which members with competing business interests and different decision-making criteria collaborate to satisfy real-world requirements for interoperability and re-use. ... IMS Specifications

News Link: http://www.imsglobal.org/pressreleases/pressreleases.cfm

ITC provides leadership, information and resources to expand and enhance distance learning through the effective use of technology. ITC is an affiliated council of the American Association of Community Colleges.

References:

• Annual Surveys of Distance Education -- 2007, 2006
• Distance Education Reports and Abstracts
  

The purpose of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is to help learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth 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. Created with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan-C encourages the collaborative sharing of knowledge and effective practices to improve online education in learning effectiveness, access, affordability for learners and providers, and student and faculty satisfaction.

References:

• Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning, 2007
• Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States, 2006
  • Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States, 2006 -- Southern Edition
• Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the United States, 2005
  • Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the United States, 2005 - Southern Edition
• Entering the Mainstream: The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the United States, 2003 and 2004
• Sizing the Opportunity: The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the United States, 2002 and 2003
  
  
• A SYNTHESIS OF SLOAN-C EFFECTIVE PRACTICES, AUGUST 2005
  
  
  
• Resource for Blended Learning Educators
  
• Catalog of online degree and certificate programs (extensive)

News Link: http://www.sloan-c.org/news/index.asp
Conferences/Events: http://www.sloan-c.org/conference/index.asp

USDLA is committed to being the leading distance learning association in the United States. USDLA serves the needs of the distance learning community by providing advocacy, information, networking and opportunity.

 News Link: http://www.usdla.org/html/whatsNew/newsAlerts.htm
 Conferences/Events: http://www.usdla.org/html/events/conferences.htm

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