Organizations Related to Distance Education
This page offers connections to organizations which offer distance education learning opportunities. The resources will offer further insights into the Integrated Distance Education Model developed as part of the Cross-Disciplinary Study of Children and Families Master of Education Program at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
There are a number of professional organizations that have important contributions to make to the understanding of the relationship between the use of interactive television and multimedia resources in professional training. Several of the most helpful include the following:
TECFA
"Technologies de Formation et Apprentissage" ("Training Technologies and Learning"), is a teaching and research unit within the School of Psychology and Education (Faculte de psychologie et des sciences de l'education), University of Geneva.
http://tecfa.unige.ch/edu-comp
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education is an international association of individual teacher educators, and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/aace/site/home.html
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
AACE (founded in 1981) is an international, educational, and professional organization dedicated to the advancement of the knowledge, theory, and quality of learning and teaching at all levels with information technology.
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