COLLEGE TIMES WEB SITE - This New York Times site allows college students and faculty to locate information related to specific interest areas. They can access recent Times articles by subject and sign up to receive free email alerts as new articles are published on NYTimes.com Additional resources include student career-planning information and faculty instructional resources. The Faculty section includes: Teaching with The Times, free curriculum guides with innovative ideas for augmenting courses with the Times and tips for lectures, discussions, research essays and tests. Direct links can also be found to education news and other relevant content from NYTimes.com See the new College Times Web site at CLICK: http://www.nytimes.com/college

FORBES SPECIAL EDITION ON e-LEARNING - For those of you interested in trends in corporate use of e-learning, you might want to take a look at the "Forbes Special Section on eLearning" at CLICK: http://www.forbes.com/specialsections/elearning/contents.htm It provides information about:

Market and corporate drivers of e-learning Corporate e-learning economies Benchmark study of best practices (from Bruce Dewey, ICS, UW-Extension)

ACCESSIBLE e-LEARNING REPORT - An Accessible e-Learning Report is now available to help you meet new Government regulations. Do you know how to evaluate your e-learning for accessibility to people with disabilities? Are your e-learning products accessible by the 57 million people in the United States with disabilities? Are your e-learning products compliant with the new federal standards mandated by the Section 508 regulations?

"Accessible e-Learning: 2001 Market Trends and Evaluation Tips" is written to help both educators and suppliers...to increase the accessibility and instructional effectiveness of their e-learning programs/products. A full 30% of the proceeds from the sale of the report will be donated to non-profit organizations involved in providing assistive technology and rehabilitation training to people with disabilities. The report is available free of charge to any disability-related organization wishing to convert it into particular accessibility formats. Academic pricing is available for accredited schools and universities, and non-profit organizations. For more information CLICK: http://www.brandon-hall.com/acel.html (from Brandon Hall - News and Notes from brandon-hall.com 19 Apr 01)

CREATING LEARNING-CENTERED COURSES FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB by William Sanders, Allyn and Bacon, (c) 2001, ISBN# 0-205-31513-5

This book would be best used as an instructional guide for teaching naïveinstructors in an academic environment how to create their own courses from scratch using HTML and Javascript inside common authoring platforms such as Netscape's Composer or Microsoft's Front Page. Naïve academic Website designers will benefit from the many practical tips concerning instructional Web site design ranging from the type of font to employ for easy reading to how to design a multiple choice test template. Chapters cover the basic parts of a Web page, essential HTML, designing with tables, active learning with links and frames and using forms to gather feedback. (The Virtual University Gazette, vol. 4, no 4, Apr 01 ISSN #1099-4262)