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JOLT: Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in online higher education. JOLT is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. The objectives of JOLT are to:
Enable faculty to use technology effectively in online teaching and learning by learning from a community of researchers and scholars;

• Enable academic programs to design and deploy academic technology to optimize online teaching and learning;
• Build a community around the research and scholarly use of multimedia educational resources for online teaching and learning.

Distance Learning Newsletter

eLearning Guild
The eLearning Guild is the oldest and most trusted source of information, networking, and community for eLearning Professionals. As a member-driven organization, the Guild produces conferences, online events, e-books, research reports, and Learning Solutions Magazine—all devoted to the idea that the people who know the most about making eLearning successful are the people who produce eLearning every day in corporate, government, and academic settings. Our goal is to create a place where eLearning professionals can share their knowledge, expertise, and ideas to build a better industry—and better learning experiences—for everyone.

Higher Education Associations

Association for Telecommunications Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA)
http://www.acuta.org/home.cfmACUTA is a nonprofit organization whose core purpose is to support higher education institutions in achieving optimal use of communications technologies.


Council For Higher Education Accreditation
http://www.chea.org/CHEA is a private, nonprofit national organization that coordinates accreditation activity in the United States for the purpose of quality assurance to the "U.S. Congress and Department of Education, general public, opinion leaders, students, and families."

Higher Education Resources

EarnMyDegree.com
http://www.earnmydegree.com/EarnMyDegree.com is an online repository of both online degree and college information with a particular focus on Associate and Undergraduate degree programs. Their stated goal is to match the education desires of working professionals, with the best available school or degree programs. The robust and user-friendly site features hundreds of schools and thousands of accredited online degree programs.


Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERIC is an online digital library that provides ready access to education research and information to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

Higher Education Resource Hub
http://www.higher-ed.org/The goal of this evolving Web site is to provide a comprehensive collection of information resources in the field of higher education throughout the world.

Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching MIT OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/News and information on the project to make the course materials used in the teaching of virtually all of MIT's courses available on the Web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world.

World Lecture Hall
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language.