Results from May 14-15, 2009, Meeting Survey
Florida Distance Learning Consortium

List up to five of your best information sources for distance education and technology information or news. Please provide a name, a URL (if one is available), cost (if any), and an explanation as to why you use it. N=22

Summary: Most frequently cited information sources:
Chronicle of Higher Education = 8
Campus Technology = 7
Educause, Instructional Technology Council, Sloan-C = 6 each
Inside Higher Education = 4

1. Alan Levine
   http://www.cogdogblog.com
2. American Journal of Distance Learning
3. Barry Dahl
   http://www.barrydahl.com
4. Campus Technology (periodical and e-newsletter)
   http://www.campustechnology.com
5. Chronicle of Higher Education
   http://www.chronicle.com
   Including several daily newletters, about $80 per year to subscribe
   Chronicle Academe Today
   http://chronicle.com/help/emails/academetoday
   Comes right to email 5 days/week
6. Conferences
7. Digital Copyright listserve
   digital-copyright-digest-subscribe@lists.umuc.edu
   This listserve reviews a wide variety of topics related to copyright and intellectual property
8. Distance Education Report
   http://www.magnapubs.com/distanceeducation
   $419 for 1 year subscription (24 issue) - software, successful practices, training programs, etc. Good ideas for online instruction.
9. Distance Education Online Symposium
   DEOS-L@LISTS.ASET.PSU.EDU
   A listserve that provides a venue for a wide variety of topics related to distance learning. Essential content from a respected higher ed institution.
10. Distance-Educator.com
    http://www.distance-educator.com Presents issues and links to various sources from commercial (vendor) and academic sources.
11. distancelearn.org
    http://www.distancelearn.org
12. Distance Learning Blogs and News
13. Educause
    http://www.educause.edu
    Websites, publications, high level discussions of a wide range of academic computing issues. Some relate to instruction, but a lot deal with purely IT issues. Great statistics to support technology initiatives
14. eSchool News
    http://www.eschoolnews.com
    Latest and greatest of what institutions are doing with technology. Free
15. Facebook
    http://www.facebook.com
    For articles posted by friends (Mark Milliron, for example)
16. Elspeth McCulloch, who seems to know everything
17. FDLC Website
    http://www.fldlc.org
18. FDLC newsletter
19. Google News/Tech
    http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&topic=t
20. Inside Higher Ed
    http://www.insidehighered.com
    Free newsletter
21. Instructional Technology Council
    http://www.itcnetwork.org
    The Community College Distance Learning Organization
22. IT Forum
    http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum
    A listserve that hosts a discussion forum for papers that members submit and for topics of interest.
23. McKinsey Quarterly
    http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com
24. ISTE
25. Journal of Online Administration
    U of West Ga pub
26. Journal of Distance Education
27. League for Innovation
28. National Center for Academic Transformation
29. Online Classroom
    1 print copy $177/yr
30. Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
    http://www.sacs.org
31. Sloan Consortium
    http://www.sloanconsortium.org
32. Society for Applied Learning Technology
    http://www.salt.org
33. Stephen Downes
    http://www.downes.ca
34. Tech Learning
    http://www.techlearning.com
35. Twitter
    http://twitter.com
    Free
36. United States Distance Learning Association
    http://www.usdla.org
    $125 for individual membership - trends and practical applications
37. WCET
    http://www.wcet.info