WEB -- WAOE Electronic Bulletin -- Volume 1 No. 8 25 June 1999

<font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>World Association for Online Education</font></font> <br><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>W E B</font></font></b> <br><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1>WAOE Electronic Bulletin</font></font> <br><font face="Helvetica">Volume 1, No. 8</font> <br><font face="Helvetica">June 25 1999</font> <h1> <a NAME="Contents"></a><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>Contents</font></font></h1> <b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1><a href="#Ideas">Web Ideas and Issues</a></font></font></b> <br><a href="#Owl">Action Research for an "OWL"</a> <br><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#What">About this Section</a></font></i></b> <p><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1><a href="#Profile">Memberâs Profile</a></font></font></b> <br><a href="#Nourse">Mary Ellen Nourse, Publicity Coordinator & Manager: WAOE-News</a> <br><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#About_Profile">About Member's Profile</a></font></i></b> <p><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1><a href="#Conference">Conference (Re)Call</a></font></font></b> <br><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Reports">Reports:</a></font></i></b> <br><a href="#AERA">American Education Research Association Special Interest Groups</a> <br><a href="#Praxis">Praxis Research Forum</a> <br><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Coming">Coming Events:</a></font></i></b> <br><b>FREE</b> <a href="#Material">Online Material Writers Workshop</a> <br><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Feature">About Conference (Re)Call</a></font></i></b> <p><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1><a href="#Briefs">News Briefs</a></font></font></b> <br><a href="#VLE">Sponsorship of the Virtual Learning Environments Conference</a> <p><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1><a href="#Forth">Forthcoming Meetings</a></font></font></b> <br><a href="#AGM">Annual General Meeting</a> <br><a href="#Annual">Annual Board of Directors' Meeting</a> <br><i><a href="#this">About this Section</a></i> <br><i><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Time">Time Conversion Site</a></font></i> <p><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1><a href="#Your_Say">Your Say</a></font></font></b> <br>No items in this issue <br><b><i><a href="#Say">About Your Say</a></i></b> <p><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1><a href="#Links">WAOE Links</a></font></font></b> <br><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#New_Links">New Links:</a></font></i></b> <br><a href="#Source">The Source</a> <br><a href="#Ed-X">Ed-X Distance Learning Channel</a> <br>  <p><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1><a href="#Feedback">Feedback</a></font></font></b> <br><a href="#Comments">Members' Comments re WEB on the Web</a> <p><b><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#About">About WEB</a></font></b> <p><b><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#WAOE">About WAOE</a></font></b> <p><font face="Helvetica">############</font> <p><a NAME="Ideas"></a><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>WEB Ideas and Issues</font></font></b> <p><a NAME="Owl"></a><b><font size=+2>Action Research For An "OWL"</font></b> <p><a href="#Nourse">Mary Ellen Nourse</a>, Affiliate Assistant Professor in the University of Idaho and Publicity Chair of WAOE, reflects on an increasingly widespread and important use of the Internet in higher education: <blockquote><b><font size=+1>Introduction</font></b> <p>The title of this article probably brings to mind two questions: <br>1.  What is "action research" and <br>2.  What is an "OWL"? <p>These two questions will be answered in this brief article. <p><b><font size=+1>Action Research and Its  Relation to Online Education</font></b> <br>At the end of the most recent full semester, term or quarter, did you seek feedback from your students regarding your online course:  textbook, lectures, exams, your classroom persona, etc.?  Did you use this data to make changes for this current semester, quarter, or term?  If so, congratulations:  You have potential as an action researcher. <p>Action research differs from other methods because of its focus on practical applications.  Sometimes termed "participatory research," action research usually is conducted by an educator who sees a problem or situation specific to his or her situation (such as the desire of an online educators to offer quality instruction at a distance) and endeavors to solve it.   In my case, the problem I face is determining the services and resources to be offered by the proposed OWL for the University of Idaho Boise Center. <p><b><font size=+1>Definition of "OWL"</font></b> <br>"OWL" is an abbreviation for "Online Writing Lab." <sup>#</sup> A number of universities offer this service, and the University of Idaho Boise has received permission from our main campus to establish one, contingent upon grant funding.  (That represents a considerable contingency!) <p>Most OWLS offer online tutoring for students having trouble with writing, grammar "hotlines," and a variety of online handouts related to writing.  These handouts address a multitude of writing problems ranging from plagiarism to proofreading.  Of the variety of resources which the potential online writing lab could offer, a new OWL director such as me could feel overwhelmed.  Therefore, I am  constructing a survey form which will determine which services and resources our UI Boise faculty, staff, and students deem most necessary.  This instrument will be transmitted to UI Boise colleagues and staff electronically and by traditional means--placement in faculty mailboxes.  Student survey instruments will be placed in a strategic location for pickup and completion:  next to the refrigerator and soda pop machines in the student/staff breakroom.  Nonparametric statistical procedures will be used to assess the collected data. <p><b><font size=+1>Conclusion</font></b> <br>Action research provides online educators an opportunity to examine a situation or problem and investigate solutions.  As a neophyte action researcher and OWL director, any suggestions from WAOE members regarding design of my "OWL" survey investigation as well as tips for starting and maintaining an online writing lab will be appreciated!</blockquote> <sup>#</sup> If you would like to know more about <a href="http://departments.colgate.edu/diw/NWCA.html">Online Writing Labs</a>, this link will take you to the Online Writing Centers Website, where the National Writing Centers Association maintains an index of online university writing centers.  <a href="mailto:dwyatt@camtech.net.au">Web Editor</a> <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Helvetica">#############</font> <p><a NAME="What"></a><b><i><font size=+1>About this Section</font></i></b> <p><font face="Helvetica">The issues and other matters raised in this section of WEB are intended to derive from membersâ concerns and suggestions. In this formative period for WAOE, it is perhaps inevitable that items from the elected officers will predominate. We are keen to help members to understand and reflect on what the Association is about and to encourage them to be active in its work.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">As the committees and other groups and forums that make up WAOE come on stream, this column will be taken up more and more by ideas or concerns arising from the activities of those groups. Which is just as it should be. But don't wait for the elected officers or other office bearers to make all the running. If you have an idea to suggest, a question to raise, a point to make or a worry to express about WAOE, you could air it first of all in the <a href="#Your_Say">Your Say</a> section of WEB. Depending on the nature and volume of early responses, matters raised may spark an article in the Web Ideas and Issues section of WEB, or a structured debate or online chat on the WAOE WebBoard.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Helvetica">#############</font> <p><a NAME="Profile"></a><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>Memberâs Profile</font></font></b> <p><a NAME="Nourse"></a><b><font size=+2>Mary Ellen Nourse, Publicity Coordinator & Manager: WAOE-News</font></b> <p><a href="mailto:nourse@uidaho.edu">Mary Ellen</a> has been with WAOE from the very beginning. She was a very active member of the discussion group focused on Steve McCarty's keynote <br>address to the Tertiary Community Colleges Conference in April 1998, which grew into the inaugural establishment body for the Association.  Mary Ellen <br>initiated the establishment of  the WAOE-News listserv as early as May 1998 and continues to manage it.  She is WAOE's Publicity Coordinator/Public <br>Information Committee Officer, and also carries leading responsibility for the Association's efforts to secure external funding through grants and projects. Mary Ellen writes: <p>              First of all, I'm an affiliate assistant professor in the Department of English of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Idaho, <br>              USA.  My field within English is business communication. The difference between an affiliate faculty member and an adjunct is that the <br>              latter usually has an appointment of limited duration, such as a semester or an academic year.  In contrast, an affiliate position is ongoing. <p>              To confuse matters, however, my online teaching has been as an adjunct for the College of Education at UI.  I've taught Internet <br>              applications for Educators I and II Online in past years; Internet Apps I Online is scheduled for this coming Summer semester (if enrollment <br>              permits).  Meanwhile, I am overseeing two graduate students who are taking Technology Applications for Idaho School Administrators <br>              Online, which is another professional development course.  In other words, academic credit is granted, but this credit can't be applied toward <br>              an advanced degree. <p>              Currently, I'm writing grant proposals to fund an Online Writing Lab (OWL)<sup>#</sup> for the <a href="http://boise.uidaho.edu/">University of Idaho Boise Center</a>.  My initial proposal to <br>              establish an OWL for our campus down here in Boise was approved by my department chair and dean up on our main campus.  As I <br>              proposed, the OWL will be funded solely through grants--and I'm the one to write those grants!  Anyway, I am very much looking forward to <br>              serving as Director and sole Staff Member of the UI Boise OWL. <p>              As part of the process to establish an OWL, I intend to conduct action research consisting of a survey of our UI Boise faculty and staff to be <br>              transmitted via electronic and traditional means (i.e., placement in faculty mailboxes).  The purpose will be to determine what resources and <br>              services faculty and staff feel should be offered by the Online Writing Lab.  These responses will be compared with those received from <br>              students. <p>              Another research project in which I'm involved deals with perceptions of collegiate accrediting agencies regarding the "status" given to <br>              those of us who present and publish online as compared to our colleagues who spend $$$$ to present at f2f conventions and then publish in <br>              hard copy.  I plan to report the results in WAOE's Journal of Online Education. <p>              My hobbies include organ, piano, and accordion; USA Civil War re-enactment, public speaking, nonparametric statistical procedures, <br>              baseball, track and field, running, and Masters swimming.  I also try to serve as Publicity Chair and WAOE-News listserv administrator for <br>              WAOE. <p><sup># </sup>See Mary Ellen's <a href="#Owl">article</a> under WEB Ideas and Issues.  If you would like to know more about <a href="http://departments.colgate.edu/diw/NWCA.html">Online Writing Labs</a>, this link will take you to the Online Writing Centers Website, where the National Writing Centers Association maintains an index of online university writing centers.  <i><a href="mailto:dwyatt@camtech.net.au">Web Editor</a></i> <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Helvetica">##############</font> <p><a NAME="About_Profile"></a><b><i><font size=+1>About Member's Profile</font></i></b> <p><font face="Helvetica">In each issue of WEB a different member introduces him- or herself and talks about experiences and interests in online education and training. Drawing on the information and URLs provided on their registration forms, the WEB Editor is targetting individual members who are doing especially innovative and exciting things in online education with requests to provide a brief profile.</font> <p><b><u><font face="Helvetica">But why wait to be asked?</font></u> All WEB readers are urged to use the Memberâs Profile to help flesh out the person behind the impersonal email address youâre known by in WAOE. We are a member's organisation - reMEMBER!! Just a short piece will do. As well as giving us some background information, weâd like you to tell colleagues why you joined WAOE, what you hope to gain from your involvement, and what you would like to contribute.</b> <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Helvetica">##############</font> <p><a NAME="Conference"></a><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>Conference (Re)Call</font></font></b> <p><a NAME="Reports"></a><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>Reports</font></font></i></b> <p><a NAME="AERA"></a><b><font size=+2>American Education Research Association (AERA) Special Interest Groups</font></b> <p>This item picks up an Invitation to Join the American Education Research Association (AERA) Special Interest Groups on <li> Advanced Technologies for Learning (SIG-ATL) and</li> <li> Education in Science and Technology (SIG-EST)</li> <br>which went first to the <a href="http://ifets.gmd.de/">IFETS Forum</a>. <p>I haven't made any connection with either groups, so this is not a re-call so much as a promotion of sites which look as though they offer good information on technological applications and opportunities for challenging discussions.  Perhaps a member or two will take a look and let us all know what they find.  (That would make a welcome change from this column being dominated by my choices and opinions.)  <i><a href="mailto:dwyatt@camtech.net.au">Web Editor</a></i> <blockquote>New technologies are flooding into homes and classrooms. But most new technologies are simply perpetuating old ways of thinking and learning.  Even in discussions about the scientific and technological knowledge that students need to succeed in the 21st century, the common vision has students becoming not innovators or practitioners, but "users". <p>SIG-ATL and SIG-EST are dedicated to fundamentally transforming education. SIG-ATL focuses on the design and use of new technologies to empower learners, both in the classroom and out. SIG-EST is the only SIG devoted to educational reform in the sciences, engineering, and technology, and seeks reform via research, design, and practice. <p>If you share this vision, we hope you will join either or both SIGs.  (Most of our members belong to both SIGs). Our SIGs include leaders in <br>educational research worldwide, and have historically played a significant role in informing groups such as the National Science Foundation and the White House President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. <p>These SIGs are an important resource to our community. One primary role of SIG-ATL and SIG-EST is to sponsor sessions at the annual AERA meeting. The more of you who join the SIGs, the more sessions we can sponsor. Membership also entitles you to submit items to our newsletter and publicize your projects on our web sites: <blockquote> <li> Advanced Technologies for Learning (SIG-ATL) - <a href="http://www.ls.sesp.nwu.edu/sig-atl/sig-atl.html">http://www.ls.sesp.nwu.edu/sig-atl/sig-atl.html</a></li> <li> Education in Science and Technology (SIG-EST) - <a href="http://www.ls.sesp.nwu.edu/sig-est/sig-est.html">http://www.ls.sesp.nwu.edu/sig-est/sig-est.html</a></li> </blockquote> These websites are effective ways to communicate with others in our community. We also have good informal ties with other similar organizations ouside AERA, such as EARLI, NARST, AACE, and the like. <p>Please join or renew your membership. Dues are a token $5/year per SIG (or $20 per SIG for 5 years). Just fill out the form at <a href="http://www.ls.sesp.nwu.edu/sig-est/join.html">http://www.ls.sesp.nwu.edu/sig-est/join.html</a> then send your dues payment to: <br>Jeremy Roschelle, Secretary/Treasurer <br>SRI International <br>333 Ravenswood Ave. <br>Menlo Park CA 94025-3493 <br>USA</blockquote> <font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br>******************** <p><a NAME="Praxis"></a><b><font size=+2>Praxis Research Forum</font></b> <p>This site is not so much about online education, with a focus on the graduate research study level, but a model of online education and support in practice. The <a href="http://www.aworldapart.com/Serve/praxis/index.html">Praxis Research Forum</a> is moderated by WAOE member Idrenne Lim-Alparaque. The Forum's Message Board enables dialogue and conversations related to research, whether it be on your current work, methodology, innovative approaches, the research focus, questions on a topic, collaborative work, or maybe even frustations or better ways of doing research. You can browse as a guest or post messages freely.  Email addresses are not required, but are necessary if you opt to have responses sent  directly to you from the board. <p>Praxis Research Seminars, hotlinked from the home page, aim to deliver prompt practical help for graduate students currently working on your thesis or dissertations who are "experiencing problems, frustrations or seemingly endless difficulties.  Have you been working with transcripts that don't make sense, overwhelming data, readings, readings and more readings?  Still don't have a substantive research direction?  Are you an A.B.D., (All But the Dissertation), yet want nothing more but to get back on track and get it over with? " This section includes: <li> Conversations with Dr Idrenne</li> <li> Research Email (requires a free email signup)</li> <li> Articles (a page with a hard-to-read colour scheme, plus useful links)</li> <li> Coffee Talk</li> <p><br>Another feature of the site is its selective links to other highly pertinent online forums and resources.  These include: <li> Action Research</li> <li> Electronic Media Design and Support</li> <li> Graduate  School Admissions (Useful for Faculty Advisors.)</li> <li> New York Times on the Web</li> <li> Teaching on the Internet</li> <li> And WAOE</li> <br>  <br><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Courier New"><font size=-1>################</font></font> <p><a NAME="Coming"></a><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>Coming Events</font></font></i></b> <p><a NAME="Material"></a><b><font size=+2>Online Material Writers Workshop</font></b> <p>Richard Slessor and Eva Easton will be hosting a material writer's workshop online on ELTASIA-L in August '99. Mr. Slessor is the manager of University <br>and College Projects for Garnet Publishing in Reading UK. Ms. Easton is accomplished in online educational publishing. You can see her work at <br><a href="http://eleaston.com">http://eleaston.com</a> featuring extensive second language learning materials.  A pre-workshop paper with a focus on producing educational materials will <br>be posted at <a href="http://eltasia.com">http://eltasia.com</a> by Mr. Slessor. If you wanted to write a textbook or get your educational materials published online, this is the workshop for you. There will be opportunities to have your own papers published in ELT ezines as you work up toward submitting your textbook idea to a publisher. The online workshop, the ezine publishing, and the list signup to participate are all <b><u>free</u></b>. More information and signup can be found at <a href="http://eltasia.com">http://eltasia.com</a>. <p>Thanks to Voting Member HC (Rick) Reynolds for this item.  Rick is the ELTASIA-L Moderator in Chiba, Japan. <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Courier New"><font size=-1>################</font></font> <h2> <a NAME="Feature"></a><i><font size=+1>About Conference (Re)Call</font></i></h2> <font face="Helvetica">The Conference (Re)Call column aims mainly to provide feedback from members on the new knowledge or other value they gained from attending a recent conference or other event to do with one aspect or another of online education. It also includes a Coming Events section, advertising relevant conferences, seminars, workshops or other forums which members will be able to attend at little or no cost. This section will concentrate mainly on online events, because that is WAOEâs special interest, and because the idea is to promote opportunities which are more or less equally available to WAOE members no matter what part of the world they live in.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">The success of Conference (Re)Call therefore depends very heavily on input from members. WAOE officers are already out there reporting on events theyâve attended and spotting others to come. Weâd like to see all other members doing likewise. You will see from the items in this issue that reports donât need to be lengthy or detailed, let alone polished. We think the segment will work best on the simple premise that whatever any one member found worthwhile in attending an online education event, or attractive about an event in the offing is likely to benefit and interest other members. So, letâs keep those reports and notices coming in to the <a href="mailto:dwyatt@camtech.net.au">WEB Editor</a>.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Courier New"><font size=-1>################</font></font> <p><a NAME="Briefs"></a><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>News Briefs</font></font></b> <br>  <br><a NAME="VLE"></a><b><font size=+2>Sponsorship of the Virtual Learning Environments Conference</font></b> <p>WAOE is seeking to co-sponsor the <a href="http://www.mgdolence.com/events/virtual.htm">3rd World Conference on Virtual Learning Environments</a>.  This is an annual conference for professionals engaged in designing, implementing, operating, evaluating or accrediting virtual learning environments, which will next be held on January 5-7, 2000 at Holiday Inn on the Bay, San Diego, California.  Sponsorship evidently involves assistance with promoting the event, eg by providing links or making announcements. <p>Kate Hand, Convenor of the Industry and Academy OCREW is pursuing this matter on behalf of the Association, with a possible view to involving the OCREW in panel discussions or other elements of the conference.  Kate is looking for any information which might be helpful to her efforts from members who know about the organisers of the VLE 2000 Conference or who have participated in the previous events.  <a href="mailto:kate.hand@cgi.ca">Email Kate</a> if you can offer any help. <br>                                                                                                                                                       <br>If Kate's approaches bear fruit, they would put WAOE in some very interesting company of organisations involved in online education and distance learning which are also supporting VLE 2000 - including Western Governors University, UCLA, Southern Regional Electronic Campus, Cal VIrtual U, Minnesota Virtual U, and the Commonwealth of Learning. <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Helvetica">#############</font> <p><a NAME="Forth"></a><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>Forthcoming Meetings</font></font></b> <p><a NAME="AGM"></a><b><font size=+1>Annual General Meeting</font></b> <p>WAOE's Annual General Meeting began 1000 GMT on Friday June 25 (that's 3 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time in the US, if you need a more familiar clock reference), but it may not be too late to check in and see what's happened or is happening.  Go to the Agenda page at <a href="http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/seehaferj/waoe/agenda.htm">http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/seehaferj/waoe/agenda.htm</a>.  If you are a Voting Member and wish to be included in the quorum, check in by not later than 1000 GMT on Saturday June 26 and don't forget to introduce yourself via the Roll Call link. Associate Members are welcome to join the meeting, but they are not required to respond to the Roll Call. <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br>******************** <p><a NAME="Annual"></a><b><font size=+1>Annual Board of Directors' Meeting</font></b> <p>WAOE's Bylaws require the Board of Directors to conduct an annual meeting on the first Friday of each July.  The meeting for 1990 will therefore be held on Friday July 2, commencing at 1000 GMT.  Information about the meeting and its outcomes will be posted closer to that date via WAOE-News and WEB. <p>The Board of Directors are the officers elected by the voting membership in August last year: <blockquote>PRESIDENT (through June 2001):  Steve McCarty, Kagawa Junior College, Japan <br>VICE-PRESIDENT (through June 2000):  Mihkel Pilv, Educational Consultant, Estonia <br>TREASURER (through June 2001): Jenna Seehafer, California State University, Sacramento <br>MEMBERSHIP CHAIR (through June 2000):  David Wyatt, Educational Consultant, Australia <br>EXECUTIVE SECRETARY (through June 2000): Brian Donohue-Lynch, Quinebaug Valley Community-Technical College, Connecticut</blockquote> For more information about the functions of the Directors and the purpose of this annual meeting, go to WAOE's <font face="Helvetica"><a href="http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/WAOE-founding.html">Archive of Founding Documents</a>.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">*******************************</font> <br><a NAME="this"></a><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1>About this Section</font></font></i></b> <p><font face="Helvetica">Each issue, this section of WEB will include information about meetings of WAOE committees, OCREWs and other groups that are coming up within the ensuing fortnight. All members of WAOE - both associate and voting members - are welcome to attend these meetings and contribute to discussion. Of course, only the duly elected or otherwise designated members of WAOE's organisational committees may take part in any formal voting on matters for decision.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">***************************************************</font> <p><a NAME="Time"></a><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1>Time conversion site</font></font></i></b> <p><font face="Helvetica">To help arrange synchronous meetings, WAOE uses <a href="http://155.43.48.225:2020/timew.html">World Time Zone in JavaScript</a>.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Helvetica">##############</font> <p><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>Your Say</font></font></b> <p>No items for this issue. <p><a NAME="Say"></a><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>About Your Say</font></font></b> <br><font face="Helvetica">The idea of this section of WEB is to offer a specific forum where members can ask questions or raise concerns or make comments about any aspect of the organisation and running of WAOE itself.  So, if anything is bothering you - or even if you'd like to pay us a compliment! - send an email to the <a href="mailto:dwyatt@camtech.net.au">WEB Editor</a>.  If the message is printable ;-)), it will appear in the next available number.  And, depending upon the responses generated, it may help to start up a thread of discussion on the WAOE WebBoard.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Helvetica">##############</font> <p><a NAME="Links"></a><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>WAOE Links</font></font></b> <p><b>This section lists URLs for key Websites within WAOE itself, and other URLs related to online education which have been identified by members.</b> <p><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1>WAOE Organisation and Communication Sites</font></font></i></b> <br>  <li> <font face="Helvetica">WAOE Home Page: <a href="http://www.waoe.org/default.htm">http://www.waoe.org/default.htm</a></font></li> <li> <a NAME="News"></a><font face="Helvetica">WAOE-News: To subscribe, go to <a href="mailto:majordomo@uidaho.edu">majordomo@uidaho.edu</a>. Without a subject heading, send the text <subscribe waoe-news></font></li> <li> <a NAME="Views"></a><font face="Helvetica">WAOE-Views:</font> <font face="Helvetica">To subscribe, go to <a href="mailto:majordomo@waoe.org">majordomo@waoe.org</a>. Without a subject heading, send the text <subscribe waoe-views>. To contribute, send email to <a href="mailto:waoe-views@waoe.org">waoe-views@waoe.org</a></font></li> <li> <a NAME="Board"></a><font face="Helvetica">WAOE WebBoard: <a href="http://www2.ec.erau.edu:8080/~waoe">http://www2.ec.erau.edu:8080/~waoe</a>  Members registered before February 1 1999:</font> log-in by using the first part of your email address (before @) and password <waoe>. <font face="Helvetica">Other members</font>: write to Mike Warner <font face="Helvetica"><a href="mailto:mwarner@embryriddle.k12.az.us">mwarner@embryriddle.k12.az.us</a> to get access.</font></li> <li> <font face="Helvetica">WAOE Journal: <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/waoe/waoej.html">http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/waoe/waoej.html</a></font></li> <p><br>********************************************************************* <br><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1>WAOE Committees, OCREWs and Other Groups</font></font></i></b> <br>  <li> <font face="Helvetica">Online Educator Development Committee: <a href="http://ifets.gmd.de/waoe/oedc/">http://ifets.gmd.de/waoe/oedc/</a></font></li> <li> <font face="Helvetica">Planning and Finance Committee: <a href="http://www.waoe.org/pl-fin-committee.htm">http://www.waoe.org/pl-fin-committee.htm</a></font></li> <li> <font face="Helvetica">Web Design Committee: email Robert Luke (Chairperson) <a href="mailto: robert.luke@uleth.ca">robert.luke@uleth.ca</a></font></li> <li> <font face="Helvetica">Academic Outcomes Assessment Online Course and Resource Evaluation Workgroup (OCREW): email Jenna Seehafer at <a href="mailto: seehafer@csus.edu">seehafer@csus.edu</a></font></li> <li> <font face="Helvetica">Educational Standards Online Course and Resource Evaluation Workgroup (OCREW): <a href="http://www.waoe.org/edst_ocrew.htm">http://www.waoe.org/edst_ocrew.htm</a></font></li> <li> Industry and Academia <font face="Helvetica">Online Course and Resource Evaluation Workgroup (OCREW): <a href="http://ifets.gmd.de/waoe/oedc/academic_non_academic.html">http://ifets.gmd.de/waoe/oedc/academic_non_academic.html</a></font></li> <p><br>************************************************************************** <br><b><i><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1>Online Education Development and Discussion Sites</font></font></i></b> <p><font face="Helvetica">Links-Sharing Page: <a href="http://155.43.48.225:2020/walnklst.html">http://155.43.48.225:2020/walnklst.html</a></font> <p><font face="Helvetica">This is an organised set of links relevant to online education which various members of WAOE have provided. If you know of other useful links that you would like to share with other members, please comment on them via WAOE-Views or send them directly  to <a href="mailto:waoe@waoe.org">waoe@waoe.org</a> for inclusion on the <a href="http://155.43.48.225:2020/walnklst.html">Links Sharing Page</a>.</font> <p>********************** <p><a NAME="New_Links"></a><b><u><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+1>NEW LINKS</font></font>:</u></b> <p><a NAME="Source"></a><b><font size=+1>The Source</font></b> <p><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/TheSource/">The Source</a> is a peer reviewed on-line journal, supporting the needs of graduate students and professionals in all areas of education. The journal aims at disseminating the most current research and fresh ideas while linking active researchers and scholars with interested students and professionals. It provides a forum for students to exhibit the latest research and ideas on issues including but not limited to: <li> Higher Education</li> <li> K-12 Education</li> <li> International/Intercultural Education</li> <li> Instructional Technology</li> <li> Educational Policy  Curriculum and Instruction</li> <li> Educational Psychology</li> <li> Counseling</li> <p><br>For more information, contact: Mehmet Dali Ozturk, c/o The Source, University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education, Waite <br>Phillips Hall, 1100C, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0031 USA; email: <a href="mailto:source@usc.edu">source@usc.edu</a> <p>******************** <p><a NAME="Ed-X"></a><b><font size=+1>Ed-X Distance Learning Channel</font></b> <p>The idea for a web site dedicated to distance learning was created in late 1997 by a team of information architects, educational technologists, university professors, and web authors in Austin, Texas who recognized the current limitations of online information regarding distance  learning. They envisioned the <a href="http://www.ed-x.com/">Distance Learning Channel</a>  as a one-stop portal web site for universities seeking to get the message out and for learners desiring to gather information regarding distance learning programs from around the world. <p>Ed-X is now a global resource for news, course descriptions, degree programs and continuing education on the Web.  The site provides downloadable educational modules, including text, audio and video, and so-called "Class Information" which actually links users to descriptions of courses in a very wide range of subjects at the higher educatin level.  For information about advertising a distance learning program on The Distance Learning Channel, contact Ed-X at <a href="mailto:sales@ed-x.com">sales@ed-x.com</a>. <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Helvetica">##############</font> <p><a name="Feedback"></a><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>Feedback</font></font></b> <p><a NAME="Comments"></a><b><font size=+2>Members' Comments re WEB on the Web</font></b> <p>In changing over the presentation of WEB for the previous issue from email to the World Wide Web, we asked members for their comments.  Here's what came in (in no particular order): <p><b><u>Ronald G. Friesen (</u>Director of Education: The Continuing Legal Education Society of BC<u>)</u></b> <blockquote>Hi David, I've been a member of WAOE for some time now.  I really appreciate being kept up on what's going on. Thanks for all of your efforts. I can't read the information in the blue boxes with the black lettering at the top of each web page.  I have good equipment, so I expect that others may share my problem. Thanks for all of your outstanding work.</blockquote> ******************** <br><b><u>Thomas Ziesemer</u></b> <blockquote>Maybe we could arrange to send an E-mail "tickler" to notify members that there is an update on the WEB Web-page.</blockquote> ******************* <br><b><u>Jill Campbell</u> <u>(</u>Founder: Association for Canadian Home-Based Education<u>)</u></b> <blockquote>I like the web presentation ... it is nice to look at and easily navigated! I have problems (at times) connecting to the web so I would prefer to also receive WEB via email in text only. Thanks for all your hard work!</blockquote> ******************** <br><b><u>Janice Friesen</u></b> <blockquote>Thanks so much for the change in format.  I find the web format so much more useful to me.  I am happy with the interface that Robert Luke created.  I also want to say that I agree with Tony Duffy<sup>#</sup> about the reasons for not being more involved.</blockquote> <sup># </sup>See the Your Say column in WEB Vol 1, No 7. <b><i><a href="mailto:dwyatt@camtech.net.au">Web Editor</a></i></b> <p>******************** <br><b><u>Barrie Jo Price</u> <u>(</u>emTech.net)</b> <br>  <blockquote>I would like to see it just on the web, with an email that gives the site and like a table of contents, from which I can link to the whole thing or just a section. <br>Hope this is helpful. Thanks for all of the hardwork on this.</blockquote> ******************** <br><b><u>Jerry Young</u></b> <blockquote>I will check my bookmarks daily<sup>#</sup> or so for the new issue of Web. I don't really need email reminders, now that it's on the Web. By the way, the Web site looks great.</blockquote> <sup># </sup>Whoa, Jerry.  Every couple of weeks will do!  <b><i><a href="mailto:dwyatt@camtech.net.au">Web Editor</a></i></b> <p>******************* <br><b><u>Michael Punches</u></b> <blockquote>WEB should be forwarded as a file (in html) attached to the email message. Thanks.</blockquote> ******************* <br><b><u>Gerry Lefoe, Lecturer: Educational Development</u></b> <br>(Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources (CEDIR), University of Wollongong) <blockquote>WEB should be forwarded as an email message sent in text and html.</blockquote> ******************* <br><b><u>Susan Santo</u></b> <blockquote>Please do NOT continue sending me the Bulletin by e-mail. I have not been able to open any of the attachments. The new format at your web site is easy to read and I greatly prefer it.</blockquote> ******************* <br>Thanks to all of you; your feedback is appreciated.  Adverse comments on the Website presentation are being or will be addressed.  Those members who prefer to continue receiving WEB by email will be placed on a separate mailing list. Please let me know if you wish your name to be added to that list.  <b><i><a href="mailto:dwyatt@camtech.net.au">Web Editor</a></i></b> <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Helvetica">#############</font> <p><a NAME="About"></a><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>About WEB</font></font></b> <p><font face="Helvetica">The WAOE Electronic Bulletin (WEB) is the official newsletter of the World Association for Online Education. WEB will raise issues relevant to the conduct and development of the Association, convey important information to WAOE members, encourage active participation in the affairs of the Association, and provide a forum for members to make a contribution.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">WEB will be posted every two weeks to a mirror Website - URL <a href="http://www.waoe.org/web/index.htm">http://www.waoe.org/web/index.htm</a>.  At the time of publication each member will be sent an email message stating the URL and listing the contents of the current issue.  Those few members who are unable to access WEB via the Website, or who prefer to receive the bulletin via email, will be sent each issue both as an email message and as an attached file in html format.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">If you missed an issue and would like to look back, WEB is now <a href="http://waoe.org/webvol1/htm">archived</a> on the WAOE Website.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">Members are still expected to subscribe to WAOE-News (see <a href="#Links">WAOE Links</a>), because that listserve will continue to operate as the medium for official announcements, which you may expect to become more frequent as WAOE develops.  WEB will adopt a more comprehensive, detailed and newsy approach to providing items of useful and interesting information to members than is appropriate via WAOE-News.  In particular, it will act as a gateway to the various and growing number of sites and locations within WAOE where exciting things are happening.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Helvetica">#############</font> <p><a NAME="WAOE"></a><b><font face="Helvetica"><font size=+2>About WAOE</font></font></b> <p><font face="Helvetica">The World Association for Online Education (WAOE) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation, incorporated in the State of California, USA. WAOE is organised for charitable purposes and not for the private gain of any person. The specific purposes for which this members' association is organised are described in detail in the WAOE <a href="http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/seehaferj/waoe/bylaw.htm">Bylaws</a>. These include WAOE's <a NAME="Objectives"></a>objectives to:</font> <ul> <li> <font face="Helvetica">develop computer-assisted online education as a professional discipline, based upon voluntary efforts of educators so involved throughout the world</font></li> <li> <font face="Helvetica">evaluate educational content presented over online media, basing these activities upon sound pedagogical principles, humanistic ethics, and the support of educators so involved</font></li> <li> <font face="Helvetica">assist educators and administrators in the conceptualisation, planning, construction, administration, and evaluation of online instruction, as well as in the selection and use of academically reliable online resources in face-to-face courses</font></li> <li> <font face="Helvetica">create an international community of online educators for  mutual support</font></li> <li> <font face="Helvetica">provide scholarly information to all those concerned with the quality of online education</font></li> </ul> <font face="Helvetica">For more information about the way WAOE has been taking shape, go to the <a href="http://www.waoe.org/communication.htm">Communication</a> page of the <a href="http://www.waoe.org/">WAOE Website </a>and look up the <a href="http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/WAOE-founding.html">Archive of Founding Documents</a>. This archive includes:</font> <ul> <li> <font face="Helvetica">Details of WAOE Officers/Directors and Appointed Officers</font></li> <li> <font face="Helvetica">A copy of the November 1998 NEWS RELEASE: World Association for Online Education</font></li> <li> <font face="Helvetica">An outline of the Proposed WAOE Committee System</font></li> <li> <font face="Helvetica">The Founding Propositions of WAOE (August 1998)</font></li> </ul> <font face="Helvetica"><a href="#Contents">Back to Contents</a></font> <br><font face="Helvetica">##############</font> <p><b>Copyright © World Association for Online Education</b> <br>Copyright in the contents of this Bulletin is held by the World Association for Online Education (WAOE), incorporated in the State of California, United States of America as a non-profit organisation.  For enquiries, contact WAOE at <font face="Helvetica"><a href="mailto:waoe@waoe.org">waoe@waoe.org</a></font> <p><font face="Helvetica">#######################################################################</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">End of WEB Vol 1, No 8, June 25 1999.</font> <br>  </body>