Make an on-line visit to at least three of the websites and these pople and places and develop a one-page handout listing the URL addresses and interesting information you learned to share with other students in class and instructor.
Preface of my URL choices:
Currently, I deal with military personnel stationed all over the world and locally. They are required to take courses and attain certain degrees for certain jobs and ranks they will hold. Example, in order to become a job skill instructor, they must attain at least an AAS in that job skill, showing they are fully trained by the USAF and a college in that field. With this site, the University Of Maryland caters to US military personnel all over the world and up to recently, has only offered regular classes. But being overseas and on-duty for about 12-18 hours can sometimes keep these personnel from finishing their degree, even though they pay 100% tuition, duty comes first. So here they are:
University of Maryland
The University of Maryland University College-Asian Division is meeting today's challenge of the changing educational needs of the military community. UMUC's innovative online learning programs offer you maximum flexibility and opportunity to pursue and complete your educational goals. With distance education, you will be able to access your studies via the Internet any time of day or night no matter where you are, and you will be able to continue your studies with UMUC wherever your future assignments take you. Distance Education courses are designed for University of Maryland students whose duties, location, time, or other circumstances prohibit attending regularly scheduled classes. Asian Division students may enroll for classes which originate in Asian, Europe, or Stateside. For more information and the current term, see the Distance Education page.
Air War College
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-pme.htm
This site is intended for use by military personnel and is there to "serve as a rich resource for all DoD folks, but especially those coming to, currently attending, or having graduated from the Air War College, both resident and nonresident, and the other schools of Air University. This effort is in direct support of life-long learning for all DoD personnel. This site will continually be adding materials and links to support all aspects of the core and elective courses of the Air War College. These materials will range from downloadable books and study guides, to brainstorming tools, to complete elective courses. We especially will be looking for complete courses already online which support portions of the curriculum here at the college. " The USAF uses this site to reference any and all information used for research by military activities. It is also protected in certain areas by password and encryption. An excellent site for on-line courses and information for military personnel worldwide.
Indiana University
http://scs.indiana.edu/offerings/dlcert.html
Indiana is a world leader in telecommunications technology, has created this program for people in business and industry, elementary and secondary education, higher education, health care, and government. The program's goal is to enable you to use telecommunications technologies to enhance the learning capabilities of your students, employees, and customers. This site offers wonderful information for those who want to learn to planning and implementing a distance education program by understanding how to plan projects, plan and design distance education facilities, accurately estimate and justify distance education costs, and measure your program's success . You will also learn to understand how to manage the operational side of distance education, including promoting distance education programs, managing distance education budgets, employing end-user support methods, troubleshooting and maintaining a distance education system, training system users, and including support personnel and instructional staff.