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Distance Education

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On-line Educational Sites

• International Cohort, international EDD doctorate at the University of Minnesota in College of Education. Contact:
• EDU2 ?
, a comprehensive list of links for distance education -- 44 categories!
• Internet University
• Virutal On-line University
  is a K-12 program with a university level section called Athena University. Athena offers over three hundred courses on-line. You can at billp@showme.missouri.edu, or, by telephone, at (314) 446-0410.
• Distance Education Links
• Spectrum Virtual University
• Distance Learning Resources
• Links to Universities
• The American Institute for Computer Sciences, 2101 BY Magnolia Ave., Suite 200, Birmingham, AL 35205. Tel: 1-800-767-2427; 1-205-323-6191.
• "The University is real . . . the campus is virtual!"
  WU is "an accredited dispersed residency doctoral program that allows mid-career professionals the opportunity to earn their doctorate aided by computer technology, in their own location."
• Penn State's virtual classroom experiment
• Indiana University's virtual fieldtrips to CNN for journalism students
• Yahoo on distance learning
• More Distance Learning Links
• 
  

  a spin-off of the perennially innovative New School for Social Research, this program already offers more than 180 graduate and undergraduate courses either through e-mail or the World Wide Web. Write them using the above link. You can also telephone them at (212)549-6509, in New York City.

• Globewide Network Academy offers courses in sciences and humanities, taught on-line by teachers from around the world. After visiting their site on the web, you can at joe@mit.edu or (512)473-2549.
• Netcourse Online Institute
• The Apple Virtual Campus

Business Management Courses in France

• Ceram ESC, Nice, MBA with French and U.S. Universities: Contact Marie-Line Gastard
• Groupe ESC Marseille-Provence, Graduate Level Programs: Int'l Management, organisational Engineering, Distribution and Angro-Industry, Real Estate, Finance, Health, Sport Management.
• ISG International School of Business
  isb@isg.fr
• , University of Southern Europe, for MBA programs in Monaco.
• Theseus Institute, MBA program in Nice:
  stefhardin@theseus.fr, (Contact: Stefanie Hardin)

Computer Courses by Correspondence

• Institute for Technical Studies

Certification Information

• Alaska Teacher Certification
  
• InSITE (links to U.S. and State depts. of education)

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