Distance Learning Articles & Speeches

Speeches

Distance Learning: Gateway into a New Millenium , delivered by Jack Dillenberg, DDS, MPH at the Fifth Annual Conference on Distance Learning in Public Health in Tampa, FL on May 1, 1997.

Innovations in Public Health Workforce Development through Distance Learning:  "If You Build It, They Will Come" delivered by Bill Jamison, State Distance Learning Coordinator of New Jersey and Janice Taylor, State Distance Learning Coordinator of Washington.

Fact Sheets

Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals

Articles

Armstrong, L., Yang, D., & Cuneo, A. (2/28/94). The learning revolution, Business Week, pp. 80-86, 88.

Arnst, C. (1/9/95). Talk about dialing for dollars. Business Week, p. 78.

Balabanian, N. (9/94). Computer networks and equity. Preliminary report of a conference on the use and abuse of computer networks: Ethical, legal and technical aspects. (Held December 17-19, 1993, Irvine, CA.) Washington, DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Bates, A.W. (1994). Costing distance education technologies: Developing a methodology. (Preliminary Discussion Paper.) Burnaby, B.C. The Open Learning Agency.

Berners-Lee, T., Cailliau, R., Juotonen, A., Nielsen, H.F., and Secret, A. (8/94). The World Wide Web. Communications of the ACM, 37(8), 76-82.

Brand, S. (1987). The media lab: Inventing the future at MIT. New York: Penguin Books.

Brunet, C. (6/94). Communications: Hybridizing the Local Loop. IEEE Spectrum, pp. 28-32.

Brunet, C. (1/95). Viewpoint: Electric utilities can jump-start the infobahn, IEEE Spectrum, p. 28.

Cable Television Laboratories. (1994). Cable's role in the "Information Superhighway." (Archived on gopher.harvard.edu/Harvard Publications/Information Infrastructure Sourcebook.)

Cerf,V.G. (9/91). Networks. Scientific American, pp. 72-81.

Civille, R., Fidelman, M., Altobello, J. (10/93). A national strategy for civil networking: A vision of change. Electronic document (gopher. harvard. edu).

Collis, B.A. (1991). Telecommunications-based training in Europe: A state-of-the-art report. American Journal of Distance Education, 5(2), pp. 31-40.

Comer, D.E. (1995). The internet book: Everything you need to know about computer networking and how the Internet works. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Dertouzos, M.L. (9/91). Communications, Computers and Networks. Scientific American, pp. 62-69.

Dede, C. (3/91). Emerging technologies: Impacts on distance learning. Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science, 514, 146-158.

Dede, C. (1993). Beyond the information "SuperHighway." Position Paper for Federal Relations and Strategic Alliances. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University.

Dede, C. (1993). Evolving from multimedia to virtual reality. In: H. Maurer, (Ed.), Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Annual, Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

Drucker, P. (11/94). The age of social transformation. The Atlantic Monthly, pp. 53-80.

D'Souza, P.V. (1992). E-mail's role in the learning process: A case study. Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 25, 254-264.

Eng, P. (2/7/94). On-ramps to the info superhighway. Business Week. pp. 108-109.

Farhi, P. (12/22/94). TCI joins Microsoft in venture. The Washington Post, pp. B1, B16.

Forman, G.H. & Zahorjan, J. (1994). The challenges of mobile computing. Computer, IEEE, pp. 38-47.

Gathany, N. & Stehr-Green, J. (1994). Putting Life into Computer-Based Training: The Creation of an Epidemiologic Case Study. Educational Technology, July-August, 44-47.

Gery, G. Making CBT Happen. Boston: Weingarten Publications: 214.

Gilder, G. (1994a). Life after television: The coming transformation of media and American life. New York: W.W. Norton.

Gilder G. (1994b, 8/15). Information, technology and culture. National Review, 37, pp. 37-43.

Gore, A. (1/11/94). A transformation of learning: Use of the NII for education and lifelong learning. (Address to communications industry leaders.) (Archived on gopher.harvard, edu.).

Heldman, R. (1994). Information Telecommunications: Networks, Products and Services. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Hinman, A.(1996). Distance Learning and Distance Education: A Personal Perspective. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 12(1):5-8.

Interactive Educational Systems Design. (1993). Report on the effectiveness of technology in schools, 1990-92. Software Publishers Association.

Ishii, H., Kobayashi, M., & Arita, F. (8/94). Interactive design of seamless collaboration media. Communications of the ACM, 37(8), 84-97.

Jacobson, R.L. (8/5/94). Information technology: Extending the reach of "virtual" classrooms. The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Kaman, G.M. (1993). Broadband-ISDN: Personal connections to global resources. Internet Research, 3(2), 8-20.

Kapor, M. (1994). Electronic Frontier Foundation. Information Infrastructure Source Book. (Archived as EFF Communication Policy Agenda on gopher.harvard.edu).

Kapor, M. (7 & 8/93). Where is the digital highway really heading?: The Case for a Jeffersonian Information Policy. Wired, pp. 53-59, 94.

Kapor, M. & Weitzner, D. (1993). Developing the National Communications and -Information Infrastructure. Internet Research, 3(2), 21-30.

Kay, A. (9/91). Computers, networks and education. Scientific American. pp. 138-148.

Kaye, A. (1992). Learning together apart. In A. Kaye (Ed.), Collaborative learning through computer conferencing, (pp. 1-24). Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag.

Krol, E. (1994). The whole Internet. Sebastopal, CA: O'Reilly & Associates.

Lane, C. (10/93). DLRN technology resource guide: Distance Learning Resource Network. San Francisco, CA: Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Improvement.

Lane, J. (2/94). ATM knits voice, data on any net. IEEE Spectrum, pp. 42-45.

Lincoln, R., McDowell, D., Gibbs, N., Baker, E. Distance Learning in Public Health. Development stage.

Lindberg, A.B. (8/93). National Policy Perspectives, Information: An Interconnected World. Academic Medicine, 68, (8).

Lutzker, A. (3/94). A primer on distance learning and intellectual property issues. Washington, DC: Dow, Lohnes and Albertson.

Macedonia, M. & Brutzman, D. (4/94). Mbone provides audio and video across the Internet. Computer, pp. 30-36.

Martin, E.D. & Rainey, L. (1993). Student achievement and attitude in a satellite-delivered high school science course. The American Journal of Distance Education, 7(1), 54-61.

Mason, R.O. (9/94). Convergence and Community: An Ethical Challenge. Preliminary report of a conference on the use and abuse of computer networks: Ethical, legal and technological aspects. (Held December 17-19, 1993, Irvine, CA.) Washington, DC: The American Association of the Advancement of Science.

McDowell, D, et al. (1994) Distance Learning: The Instructional Strategy for the 90's.

McGee, R.E. (1994). Blueprint for the future. In R.K. Heldman, (Ed.)., Information Telecommunications: Networks, Products, and Services. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Metz, J.M. (1994). Computer-mediated communications: Literature review of a new context. Interpersonal Computing and Technology: An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century, 2(2), 31-49.

Miller, A. (6/94). Communications: From here to ATM. IEEE Spectrum, pp. 20-24.

Miller, G. (1992). Long Term trends in distance education. Deosnews, 2(23). (Archived as DEOSNEWS 92-00041 on LISTSERV@psuvm.psu.edu.)

Mills, K. & Fox, G. (1994). Infomall: An innovative strategy for high performancecomputing and communications applications development. Internet Research, 4(1), 31-44.

Moore, M.G. (1993). Free trade in higher education (Editorial). The American Journal of Distance Education, 7(3), 1-7.

Negroponte, N.P. (9/91). Products and services for computer networks. Scientific American, pp. 106-113.

Norman, D.A. (1993). Things that make us smart: Defending human attributes in the age of the machine. New York: Addison-Wesley.

Otte, P. (1994). The Information superhighway: Beyond the Internet. Indianapolis: Que Corporation.

Papert, S. (1992). The children's machine: Rethinking school in the age of the computer. New York: Basic Books.

Paulsen, M.F. (1995). An overview of CMC and the online classroom in distance education. In Z. Berge & M. Collins (Eds.). Computer Mediated Communication and the Online Classroom: Vol. 3. Distance Learning. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Perelman, L.J. (1992). School's Out: Hyperlearning, the new technology, and the end of education. New York: Morrow.

Peterson's Guides. (1993). The electronic university. Princeton, NJ.

Postman, N. (1992). Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology. New York: Alfred Knopf.

Reinhardt, A. (3/94). Building The Data Highway. BYTE, pp. 46-74.

Reis, H., Brenner, D. & Robinson, J. (1992). Multimedia communications in health care: Extended clinical consulting by hospital computer network. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 670, 257.268.

Rheingold, H. (1993). The Virtual community: Homesteading on the electronic frontier. New York: Addison-Wesley.

Riezenman, M.J. (6/94). Special Report Communications: Introduction. IEEE Spectrum, p. 19.

Roesler, M. & Hawkins, D.T. (7/94). Intelligent agents: Software servants for an electronic information world and more! Online, pp. 19-32.

Romiszowski, A. (6/93). Telecommunications and distance education. ERIC Digest, EDO-IR-93-2.

Rossman, P. (1993). The emerging worldwide electronic university: Information age global higher education. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Saettler, P. (1968). A history of instructional technology. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Savetz, K. (3 & 4/94). MUDs, MUDs, glorious MUDs. Internet World, pp-46-51.

Schlosser, C.A. & Anderson, M.L. (1994). Distance education: Review of the literature. Washington, DC: Association for Educational Communications and Technology.

Shepard, S. (Ed.). (1994). The information revolution: How digital technology is changing the way we work and live. (Special Bonus Issue). Business Week.

Special Report. (2/28/94). The Learning Revolution. Business Week.

Sproull, L. & Kiesler, S. (9/91). Computers, networks and work. Scientific American, pp. 116-123.

Stehr-Green, J., Gathany, N. (1995). Pharyngitis in Louisiana: Use of Computer-Based Training to Teach Public Health Workers Skills in Outbreak Investigation. Journal of Medical Education Technologies, 5(3), 14-18.

Steinberg, E.R. (1992). The potential of computer-based telecommunications for instruction. Journal of Computer-Based Instruction. 19(2), 42-46.

Stix, G. (8/93). Domesticating cyberspace. Scientific American, pp. 100-107, 110.

Stix, G. (1994). The last frontier. Scientific American, pp. 105-106.

Sugawara, S. (3/21/94). Satellite network seeks to link remote areas. The Washington Post.

Taylor, J.C. (1/92). Distance education and technology in Australia: A conceptual framework. ICDE Bulletin, 28.

Tesler, L.G. (9/91). Networked computing in the 1990s. Scientific American, pp. 86-93.

Turner, S.V. & Dipinto, V.M. (1992). Students as hypermedia authors: Themes emerging from a qualitative study. Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 25(2), 187-199.

Twigg, C. (9 & 10/94). The need for a national learning infrastructure. Educom Review.

U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. (1989). Linking for learning: A new course for education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Wallich, P. (3/94) Wire pirates. Scientific American. pp. 90-101.

Weingarten, F. (9 & 10/93). NREN and the National Information Infrastructure--Competing Visions? EDUCOM Review, pp. 50-53.

Weisberg, M. & Ullmer, E. Distance Learning Revisited: Life-long Learning and National Information Infrastructure. National Library of Medicine.

Weiser, M. (9/91). The computer for the 21st century. Scientific American, pp. 94-104.

Weiser, M. (12/21/94). From a discussion with xerox PARC's Mark Weiser on the future of computing on hott-list-relay@ucsd.edu.

Wiencko, J.A. (1993). The Blacksburg Electronic Village. Internet Research 3(2), 31-40.

Wilkerson, T. & Sherman, T. (11/91). Telecommunications-based distance education; Who's doing what? Educational Technology, pp. 54-59.

Willis, B. (1993). Distance education: A practical guide. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

Zuboff, S. (1988). In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power. New York: Basic Books.

RESOURCE LIST FOR INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND DISTANCE LEARNING

Association for Educational Communications and Technology
1025 Vermont Ave., NW, Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 347-7834

American Society for Training and Development
1640 King Street
Box 1443
Alexandria, VA 22313-2043
(703) 683-8100
(703) 683-1523 fax

National Society for Performance and Instruction
Suite 1250
11300 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 408-7969

Compuserve
U.S. Distance Learning Association
Box 5129
San Ramon, CA 94583
(510) 606-5160 x. 9410 fax
Attn: Shelly Portway

Institute for the Transfer of Technology to Education (ITTE)
c/o National School Boards Association
1680 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 838-6722

Instructional Telecommunications Consortium (ITC)
c/o AACJC
1 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 728-0222

Interagency Group for Interactive Training Technologies (IGITT)
c/o U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Room 1100
P.O. Box 7559
Washington, DC 20044
(202) 632-6063