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Talisma: Talisma is a leading provider of Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) solutions that enable higher education institutions to deliver a truly exceptional constituent experience.

Faculty Recruitment and Training

Report on the Academic Workforce: This new report documents the ongoing growth of contingent faculty in higher education and the continuing shift away from tenure-track positions.
Faculty Engagement, Support & Scalability Issues in Online Learning (CD-ROM): In this CD presentation, the presenters discuss challenges and opportunities for engaging faculty in new forms of presentation—both in the classroom and online. The reward for successfully managing the shift to a technology-enabled, learner-centered paradigm can include improved student learning outcomes, student and faculty satisfaction, increased nformation literacy, and institutional transformation.
Recruiting, Hiring, and Mentoring Virtual Adjunct Faculty (CD-ROM): This web conference, offered by Academic Impressions, explores the new and expanding role of adjunct faculty in distance learning, and examines some best practices for supporting virtual adjunct faculty.

Instructional Design and Course Development

Merlot - Online learning materials: MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.
Evaluating Online & Blended Learning in Higher Education (CD-ROM): This on-demand web conference, offered by Academic Impressions, explores how to develop, implement, and report specific evaluation plans, strategies, and tools tailored for blended and online learning.
Big Stock Photo: Download or upload high quality royalty-free stock photos - instant stock photo download! Search and download high quality low cost stock photos and images. Use these royalty free stock photo images for templates, web sites, print, ads, products and more.
WIDS: WIDS brings together curriculum-design software, training and consulting services to see you through the entire process of course and program development.

24/7 Student and Faculty Help Desk

Presidium: The education lifecycle is gravitating toward the Web and 24/7 support and successful education providers have started to deliver Student Services that are aligned accordingly. ESM is about showing your students that you can deliver service anytime/anywhere. Demonstrating to your administration how you can do more with less.

Cool Tools

TechSmith - Visual Presentation Tools: TechSmith provides an array of presentation tools that can enhance your online courses. Its free utility called "Jing" makes quick videos of your online activity. Its higher end product, "SnagIt", can capture images or whole web pages as well as create video of your desktop actions. Their most poweful tool, "Camtasia" is great for making visual tutorials. Free online trainings and manuals are also provided on the site.
Elluminate - Collaboration Tool: Elluminate offers a hosted solution for live e-learning and web collaboration. Free vSpace for up to three people. Can be used for teaching or for viritual office hours as it supports audio, video, and text chat, in addition to presentations, web tours, and even quizzing. And, it has partnered with all of the big e-learning providers.
Blog Tool for Educators: Edublogs is "the largest education community on the Internet" where you can sign up for a free WordPress-powered blog. The site provides lots of useful information, e.g. how to use your blog with your students and how start a conversation using your blog. An ideal site for educators who want to blog with support. (FREE)
Twitter: This is the most popular microblogging tool with many apps for accessing twitter feeds on iPhones and other mobile devices. Twitter posts are limited to 140 characters. For a directory of learning leaders who use twitter click on the link below. For more information on Twitter, go to: http://twitter.com/
Yammer: This is the corporate version of EdModo (see above). It links microbloggers from the same company or organization and focuses on posting about job-related topics.
Edmodo: This is a twitter-like tool, but it is optimized for use in educational settings and includes other features like upcoming events and activities.
Campfirenow.com: Campfire is like instant messaging, but designed exclusively for groups. This elegant web-based group chat IM is great for one-on-one and great for groups.
YouSendIt.com: YouSendIt is the trusted global leader in digital content delivery. Our innovative platform empowers people to send, receive and track digital files on-demand. YouSendIt’s reliable service provides a convenient email attachment solution, an easy-to-use FTP replacement, and eliminates the need to send files on disk with an overnight courier service.

Education Consultants

Mindshare Learning: Working in concert with our clients, we coach, inspire and counsel premium e-learning technology producers, hardware manufacturers, distributors and educational providers, in all aspects of marketing to overcome obstacles in achieving their goals.
Susan F. Schulz & Associates, Inc.: Susan F. Schulz & Associates are consultants to career schools and colleges nationwide. The company specializes in licensing, accreditation, and campus development for the private postsecondary career school sector.

Online Education Software

ETS: The non-profit ETS has as it's mission to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, research, and related services. Our products and services measure knowledge and skills, promote learning and educational performance, and support education and professional development for all people worldwide.
Elluminate Plan!: Elluminate Plan! enables educators to organize and package content and activities before the live, online session, automating routine tasks and allowing instructors to focus on delivering material, facilitating interaction, and optimizing the online learning experience.
Chalk & Wire: Chalk & Wire strives to be the world's most trusted developer and provider of digital applications and software that monitor and verify learning.

Student Information Systems (SIS)

TopSchool Inc.: TopSchool’s Student Lifecycle Management (SLM) system enables you to manage every aspect of the student lifecycle from prospecting to placement. SLM is a better, faster and cheaper solution to help colleges and universities manage their student information.

Tutoring Services

Apangea Learning: Apangea Learning provides personalized, one-to-one tutoring that goes way beyond homework help. Its proven approach to learning, coupled with a cutting edge motivation system, means that students not only learn, they want to learn! No wonder students using Apangea Learning have made multiple grade level gains in a few short months. And it's affordable!

Education Associations

Distance Education Clearinghouse: The Distance Education Clearinghouse is comprehensive and widely recognized web site bringing together distance education information from Wisconsin, national, and international sources. New information and resources are being added to the Distance Education Clearinghouse on a continual basis. Our mission is to produce a quality, highly maintained and frequently updated web site that provides a wide range of information about distance education and related resources.
University Coninuing Education Association: At a time of dymanic, fast-paced change, the University Continuing Education Association serves as an important resource to the profession. Its members rely on the Association for timely, cross-disciplinary perspectives on pressing concerns and for strategies that help them to respond the the expanding numbers of adults and non-traditional students seeking continuous learning opportunities.
American Society for Training & Development: ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) is the world’s largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals. ASTD’s members come from more than 100 countries and connect locally in almost 136 U.S. chapters and 26 Global Networks. Members work in thousands of organizations of all sizes, in government, as independent consultants, and suppliers.
The Learning Times: LearningTimes.org is an open community for education and training professionals. Members have free access to a wide range of opportunities to interact and network with peers from across the globe. Member activities include live webcasts and interviews with industry leaders, online debates and discussions, live coverage of industry conferences, and international working groups.
Instructional Technology Council: An affiliated council of the American Association of Community Colleges established in 1977, ITC represents higher education institutions in the United States and Canada, and is leader in advancing distance education. ITC is constantly working to raise awareness about the benefits of distance learning, instructional telecommunications, and future needs and possibilities.
WCET: The Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications - is a membership-supported organization open to providers and users of educational technologies. Our mission is to promote and advance the effective use of technology in higher education.
The Sloan Consortium: The purpose of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is to help learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs, 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.
edACCESS: edACCESS provides support and networking for administrative computing staff at secondary schools and small colleges.
The eLearning Guild: The eLearning Guild is a member-driven online information center and Community of Practice where anyone involved in the design, development, and management of web-based educational or instructional content (e-Learning) can identify and access resources needed to ensure that their organizations' projects are successful, engage in a professional peer network, and focus on expanding their own professional skills, knowledge, and expertise.
The Alliance for Higher Education: Pioneering distance education and collaborative endeavors for more than 30 years, the Alliance links business and higher education while providing other valuable services to the community.
Educause: A nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

Education Publications

Campus Technology: Campus Technology is mailed each month to 50,000 qualified senior-level management readers focusing on the use of high tech in higher education. Each issue contains feature articles, case studies, product reviews and profiles of technology use at the individual, departmental, and institutional level. Featured topics include advanced networking, administrative systems, portals, security, electronic publishing, presentation technologies, course management systems, technology infrastructure and strategic IT planning.
AdjunctNation.com: Whether you hold a full-time or part-time temporary teaching appointment, the Adjunct Advocate's Web page, AdjunctNation.com, can get you plugged-in like no other on-line resource for temporary college faculty can!
eLearn Magazine: eLearn Magazine is published by ACM, a not-for-profit educational association serving those who work, teach, and learn in the various computing-related fields. Founded in 1947 as the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM's stated mission is to advance the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology.
Distance-Educator.com: The technological revolution has brought networked computing to training and education. This revolution has the potential to democratize learning and training. Distance-Educator.com has been involved in this revolution from the beginning and this is the place to start your search for any and everything related to distance education and elearning. If there is a quality resource, news item, or issue to address we point to it, provide the news or do the research to bring you the best information available.
Higher Education Publications, Inc.: The Higher Education Directory is the only "official" successor to the U.S. Department of Education's Education Directory, Colleges and Universities that ceased publication in 1984. It is the only source for listing institutions that offer degrees whose accreditations are recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council of Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) approved programs by former COPA and CORPA members.
eSchool News: eSchool News covers education technology in all its aspects--from legislation and litigation, to case studies, to purchasing practices and new products.
T.H.E. Journal: T.H.E. Journal is dedicated to informing and educating K-12 senior-level district and school administrators, technologists, and tech-savvy educators within districts, schools, and classrooms to improve and advance the learning process through the use of technology.
Innovate: Innovate is an open access, bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings.

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Higher Ed Dialog: "How will the new Administration and its new policies, coupled with new appointments to the U.S. Department of Education, impact higher education?" In the ever-changing political climate, that question is weighing heavily on higher education administrators' minds, and EducationDynamics' new blog aims to provide answers and unique perspectives.
E-Learning: Predictions for 2009: This article presents predictions by experts in the field on what lies ahead for the e-learning community. While our colleagues here unanimously agree the global economic downturn is the overwhelming factor coloring their forecasts, they do see a great array of opportunities and challenges in the coming 12 months.

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