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• Course management systems items from the Educause Information Resources Library
  http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/subject_docs.asp?Term_ID=493
• Course Management Systems: Today and Tomorrow an archived CREN Tech Talk with with experts Serge Goldstein, of Princeton University, and Dirk Herr-Hoyman, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/cms.html
• WebED OnLine Education Tools
  a comprehensive collection of information about tools used for online education
  http://www.osc.edu/education/webed/Tools/education.shtml
• COSE (Creation Of Study Environments)
  http://web.staffs.ac.uk/COSE/
• Conferencing Software for the Web a comprehensive resource for software that power discussions on the Web
  http://thinkofit.com/webconf/
• Instructional Management Systems (IMS) project an initiative of EDUCAUSE, the IMS is a cooperative effort of of academic, commercial and government organizations, to build the internet architecture for learning. "These technical standards will facilitate the growth and viability of learning on the Internet through assuring interoperability of instructional systems and learning content."
  http://imsproject.org/
• NODE features a dearchable database of information about "integrated learning packages" that includes product comparisons as well as "notes from the field" or comments from people using these different systems.
  http://node.on.ca/tfl/integrated/
• Share Carolina- Instructional Web Tools an initiative to share instructional Internet development tools with other academic institutions and non-profit organizations.
  http://www.unc.edu/cit/sharecarolina/
• World Wide Web Courseware Developers contains information of interest to individuals and organizations developing courseware that is to be delivered in part or totally over the WWW.
  http://www.unb.ca/web/wwwdev/
• Videoconferencing for Learning a Blue Web'n site provides basic information about videoconferencing technology and instructional applications as well as resources to help you link with other videoconferencing teachers, librarians, and content providers.
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/vidconf/