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Associations

• American Association for Higher Education - The AAHE envisions a higher education enterprise that helps all Americans achieve the deep, lifelong learning they need to grow as individuals, participate in the democratic process, and succeed in a global economy. AAHE is higher education's "citizen's organization," where faculty, administrators, and students from all sectors, plus policy makers and leaders from foundations, government, accrediting agencies, and business can address collectively the challenges higher education faces.
• American Society for Training & Development - "The world's premier professional association and leading resource on workplace learning and performance issues".
• Association for Educational Communications and Technology - The AECT's mission is to provide leadership in educational communications and technology by linking professionals holding a common interest in the use of educational technology and its application to the learning process.
• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education - AACE's membership includes researchers, developers, and practitioners in schools, colleges, and universities; administrators, policy decision-makers, trainers, adult educators, and other specialists in education, industry, and the government with an interest in advancing knowledge and learning with information technology in education.
• CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) - the Council for Advancement and Support of Education is the professional organization for advancement professionals at all levels who work in alumni relations, communications, and development.
• CUE (Computer-Using Educators) - Computer-Using Educator's goal is to promote and develop instructional uses of technology in all disciplines and at all educational levels from preschool through college. They currently have a membership of over 11,000 educational professionals.
• DETC - The Distance Education and Training Council (formerly the National Home Study Council) is a non profit educational association located in Washington, D.C. DETC serves as a clearinghouse of information about the distance study/correspondence field and sponsors a nationally recognized accrediting agency called the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council.
• EDUCAUSE - is an international, nonprofit association whose mission is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management. Be sure ro check out Effective Practices and Solutions. Among the listings is UMD Tech Camp.
• IEEE Computer Society Learning Technology Task Force - LTTF has been founded on the premise that emerging technology has the potential to dramatically improve learning. The purpose of this task force is to contribute to the field of Learning Technology and to serve the needs of professionals working in this field.
• International Society for Technology in Education - ISTE is the largest teacher-based, nonprofit organization in the field of educational technology. Their mission is to help K-12 classroom teachers and administrators share effective methods for enhancing student learning through the use of new classroom technologies.
• Society for Applied Learning and Technology - SALT is "oriented to professionals whose work requires knowledge and communication in the field of instructional technology."
• The TLT Group - The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group's goal is " to help educational institutions improve the outcomes (and relieve some of the stress) of their educational uses of technology. At the heart of our work are the AAHESGIT Listserv and the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable (TLTR) Program."
• The United States Distance Learning Association - is a non-profit association formed in 1987 by Patrick Portway, Dr. Smith Holt of Oklahoma State University and Dr. Ralph Mills of California State University. The association's purpose is to promote the development and application of distance learning for education and training.