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Engineering students at Penn State have developed an immersive virtual reality system and explain the benefits of an an immersive, tactile classroom experience for distance education students.

Through its Extended Campus, Oregon State University offers accredited online degrees undergraduate and graduate, including Natural Resources, Environmental Sciences, Nuclear Engineering, as well as a K-12 online program.

A resource for translating seat time and credit hour requirements to online activities from Penn State

Official homepage for Ball State University's Copyright and Intellectual Property Office, sponsor of the Midwest's only annual Copyright Conference.

I deeply respect this industry pioneer, Michael Abrash, and his talk on the current state of wearable computing really turned my head around. Thought i'd throw a link up here, just in case any of you are curious about this emerging field. (basically, just click the PDF in the first paragraph, which attempts to go through and explain everything in "simpler" terms. The short of it is that we now have the tech to deliver on the promise of VR goggles from the late 80s. And after that, within about 5 years, the world will be changed by Augmented Reality (AR) - when your cell phone can seemlessly detect and enhance everything you look at). (the tech isn't quite there for AR yet, but google released Glass to try and get ahead of the game).

WA State Board for Community & Technical Colleges Open Course Library

Provides some standards for facilitating MOOCs. Though the document is written for a specific audience, we can certainly borrow the standards to apply elsewhere.