This site serves as a central hub to facilitate and support the research and dissemination of best practices in distance education in the Australian higher education sector. Check out links on http://delicious.com/dehub
The project was commissioned in 2000 by the AUTC to explore the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to facilitate flexible learning opportunities for students by identifying learning designs that have been demonstrated to contribute to high quality learning experiences and determining which learning designs may be redeveloped in a more generic form.
The E-Primer series:
#1 - E-learning in context - An introduction to e-learning and the international experience; definitions of terms; a theory for e-learning; technologies; benefits
#2 - E-education and faculty - Education theory and e-learning; the changing role of faculty; workload issues; quality
#3 - Designing for e-learning - Instructional design; learning objects; constructing a hybrid course
#4 - Online discourse - Synchronous and asynchronous communications; designing online discourse; online facilitation.
#5 - Extending e-possibilities - Web 2.0; ePortfolios; virtual worlds; lifelong learning, etc
A blog updating various elements of the E-Primers is being kept at http://e-ako.blogspot.com/