Case Studies

• Commission on Institutions of Higher Education
  Best Practices for Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs
  These Best Practices have been developed by the eight regional accrediting commissions in response to the emergence of technologically mediated instruction offered at a distance as an important component of higher education.
• Guide to Effective H.323 Videoconferencing
  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) provides an overview of the process of H.323 conferencing from start to finish together with suggestions for each step along the way: Also provided is a streamed version of a staged a videoconference where everything is wrong and then corrected.
• K-12 Videoconferencing
  Produced by a collaborative of Regional Technology in Education Consortia (R*TEC), and funded by the U.S. Department of Education, this site provides a searchable database of case studies. R*TEC sponsors a symposium of experienced users, and a publication providing advice to policy-makers in schools, districts, states and federal agencies.
• Perspectives on Distance Education: Telecentres: Case Studies and Key Issues
  Edited by Colin Latchem and David Walker, this book, published by The Commonwealth of Learning, 2001, includes 14 case studies on Telecenters worldwide discussing topics of management, operations, applications and evaluation. The entire study is available online.
• Sloan-C Effective Practices
  The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) has created an effective practices site and welcomes contributions. The focus is on five areas for online education: student satisfaction, access, learning effectiveness, faculty satisfaction and institutional cost effectiveness. On a quarterly basis, a panel of Sloan consultants selects some of the most effective submissions for special recognition.
• Using Distance Education Technology: Effective Practices
  This book, developed by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, is for faculty, trainers and teachers who use or will be using distance education technologies for training, meetings, or instruction. It contains articles and case studies by 25 practicing professionals from state government, higher education and K-12, who have used different distance education technologies successfully. The book is available for purchase. Also, a learning module: Best Practices in Videoconferencing is available from UW-Extension's Training for Videoconferencing web site.
• Wainhouse Research Case Studies Collection
  Wainhouse Research analyzes market trends, technologies, products, vendors, and applications in the visual collaboration and rich media communications marketplace. The collection of Case Studies include both web conferencing and videoconferencing.
• Web Teaching at Dartmouth College
  This continually updated site provides a Case Studies section of narratives based on interviews with educators who are using the web in their teaching. The case studies portray some of the benefits as well as the shortcomings of using the web to teach.