Distance Education in Russia

  Every one now seems aware of great benefits of distance learning. Flexibility in location, scheduling and delivery of courses and programmes from one side and convenience and considerable saving of time to say nothing about broadening one's horizons from the other side make people look for new opportunities in this field. To get acquainted with distance learning in Russia and find out more details about it, you can visit the following Web-sites:

A S S O C I A T I O N S    A N D    I N S T I T U T I O N S

• Eurasian Distance Learning Association
• Institute of Distance Education of Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI)
• Institute of International Education in Russia
• Economic Development Institute (EDI) of the World Bank
• International Institute of Distance Education of Urals State Technical University

 D I S T A N C E   E D U C A T I O N    C E N T R E S

• Distance Education Center (CDE) of St.Petersburg State Technical University (SPSTU)
• Distance Learning Center of Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MSIEM)
• International Distance Learning Center LINK
• Yaroslavl Regional Distance Learning Center
• Penza Regional Distance Education Center
• Center of Distance Learning of Bauman Moscow State Technical University

I N S T I T U T E S,      U N I V E R S I T I E S        A N D       A C A D E M I E S

• Financial Analysis and Security Trading (FAST) of Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation
• Far Eastern State University
• Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics
• Moscow State Forest University (MSFU)
• Moscow Power Engineering Institute (technical university)
• Penza State Technical University
• Tambov State Technical University
• Tomsk State University
• Tomsk Polytechnic Universit
             -  Distance Education System of Tomsk Polytechnic University
• Tula State University
• Ukhta Industry Institute

Distance Education World Wide

  We would like to offer you several web-links, which we consider worth looking up. We hope this will help you to find more information on the subject.

Distance Education Web Sites list and link to 12 distance education sites world-wide.

New Promise Inc server with a search system presents online courses.

There are such very useful search engines as   Lycos,   Yahoo!,    EuroSeek, ⌠Excite■, ⌠Infoseek■ and AltaVista. They offer many interesting things for both children and adults.

A S S O C I A T I O N S    A N D    I N S T I T U T I O N S

  The site of International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), which is a global membership organization of educational institutions, national and regional associations, corporations, educational authorities and agencies and consists of 7000 members from 130 countries of the world.

• United States Distance Learning Association
• The Distance Education and Training Council  (DETC)
• The Education Coalition (TEC)
• The Globewide Network Academy, MIT presents online courses catalogue Globewide Network Academy Catalog
• The Commonwealth of Learning - Training for Distance Educators

I N S T I T U T E S,      U N I V E R S I T I E S        A N D       A C A D E M I E S

Australia

• Deakin University Home Page Open Learning Australia Home page with links to course descriptions etc
• Central Queensland University www distance courses Course outlines etc and links to online modules
• Monash University, Australia Info and course outlines Distance education center of Monash University (Australia)
• Macquarie University distance pages Australian Opennet links to games etc
• NLII - National Learning Infrastructure Initiative
• AERES - Distance Education, Open Learning and Flexible Delivery Australian Educational Resources index and links
• Open Net Australia (educational services) Educational Internet service with links to Australian library of on-line journals etc
• Distance Research Center, University of Central Queensland Antimony online journal, Australia University of Western Australia online journal for culture, science and technology

Canada

• Open University of British Columbia, Canada Course outline & description of OU course on Internet
• University of Guelph, Ontario Extensive list of links to distance education, on-line journals, newsgroups and educational technology
• Simon Fraser University Center for Distance Education, Canada Course info and examples from Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada
• Arcadia University, Canada Arcadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Description & examples of distance courses using multimedia including teleconferencing
• TeleEducation in New Brunswick, Canada Details of courses run by teleconferencing & other media
• Genesis (Canada) - University of British Columbia, Outlines etc of interactive online courses

Spain

• Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (Spain)

The Netherlands

• Open University of the Netherlands

The UK

• Open University, UK International Center for Distance Learning, OU, UK OU documentation service with dl bibliographic index, dbases, etc
  Educational Technologies Institute of the Open University of the United Kingdom offers a database prepared by International Center for Distance Learning (ICDL), which consists of two main parts: the first contains a great number of educational institutions and distance education courses and the second - distance education library database. The latter includes references and short annotations to publications on the subject.

The USA

• National Technology University (USA)
• Pennsylvania State University (USA)
• National Distance Learning Center (NDLC), University of Kentucky Centralized information source on distance learning programs & resources
• World Lecture Hall (University of Texas) Links to many sites with www distance courses &/or materials. The site of the World Lecture Hall (WLH) is linked with a number of educational organizations that offer descriptions of learning courses accessible by Internet.
• Athena Virtual Online University Courses, materials etc from Athena, Columbia MO, USA
• Indiana University Language Arts education courses through correspondence and the World Wide Web
• Nova University, Florida Items for teachers working in distance education programs
• Minneapolis College of Art and Design, USA Descriptions of Internet Art & Design courses
• Dept of Distance Education, Western Michigan University, USA Course outlines & details of self-instructional courses
• The Virtual Classroom at New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Articles & links on distance learning
• Shenandoah University, Virginia USA Course description etc of distance teacher training via Internet & video for math's teachers
• Los Angeles Schools distance learning projects Home page with links to projects & support services from the Los Angeles County Education Offices
• Entire thematic site Distance Learning on the Net by Glen Hoyle. Glenn Hoyle's selective bibliography links to many other distance learning resources on the net.
• California College for Health Sciences, USA Course outlines etc for Health Sciences distance learning programs
• University of Idaho has placed on its web page a selection of related reference materials items.
• University of Hawaii Distance Education Course outlines etc.