Communities of Practice 

Conferences & Professional Programs  
Distance Learning
Financial Management
Futures & Change
Information Resources Management
Liberal Learning
Marketing & Publications
Military Education
Outreach & Engagement
Quality Assurance
Research
Student & Customer Services
Summer Weekend & Off-Campus Programs  
Workforce & Economic Development

Knowledge Bank

To add or modify the Resources listed here, please contact Kara Billingsley at karab@wsu.edu.

I. Partners in Change Through Outreach and Engagement

1. University Partner Resources

• Outreach Scholarship and Engagement Partnership
• Ohio State University
• University of Wisconsin-Extension Site
• Pennsylvania State University
• Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
• Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-grant Universities

2. Community Partner Resources

• Diversity Web: Campus/Community Partnerships
• Campus Compact: Benchmarks for Campus-Community Partnerships
• Campus Community Arts Initiative- Imagining America

3. Faculty Resources

a. Documenting Scholarship

• Documenting Your Scholarship in Teaching
• AAHE: Faculty Roles and Rewards Publications

b. Publications

• Journal of Continuing Education in Health Professions

c. Associations

• National Telecommunications Cooperative Association
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation

d. Faculty Development

• Faculty and Staff Development. ERIC Digest
• Points of Distinction: A Guidebook for Planning and Evaluating Quality Outreach
• UniSCOPE 2000: A Multidimensional Model of Scholarship for the 21st Century

e. Service Learning

• Indiana University Community Outreach & Partnerships in Service-Learning
• Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL)
• Guide To College and University Service-Learning Programs
• American Association for Higher Education Service Learning Resources Links

II. Delivery Systems

1. Continuing Education

a. Associations

• University Professional & Continuing Education Association
• The American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
• American Association for Higher Education
• Association for Continuing Higher Education
• National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges

2. Distance Education

• Distance Education and Training Council
• American Center for the Study of Distance Education
• Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
• International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
• The Journal of Library Services for Distance Education
• International Council for Distance Education
• The International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL)
• Report on Copyright and Digital Distance Education

a. Associations

• International Council for Distance Education
• The American Distance Education Consortium
• National Telecommunications Cooperative Association

3. Public Broadcasting

a. Associations

• PBS Online
• National Educational Telecommunications Association Online
• National Telecommunications Cooperative Association

4. Cooperative Extension

• University of Minnesota List of Cooperative Extension Publications by State
• E-answers: a searchable Web site that provides reliable, research-based information on a wide range of Extension or Outreach-oriented subjects
• Penn State University Cooperative Extension

a. Associations

• Epsilon Sigma Phi
• National Association of Extension 4-H Agents
• National Association of County Agricultural Agents
• National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
• Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals
• Joint Council of Extension Professionals (JCEP)

b. Publications

• Journal of Extension

5. Technology Transfer

• Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
• International Intellectual Property Alliance
• National Business Incubation Association
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Public Domain
• UCSD Connect

III. Program Support Systems

1.Institutional Development

• Guidestar National Database of Non-profit Organizations
• The Foundation Center

2. Grants (Local, State, Federal)

• Links to Grant Information for Faculty at the Commonwealth College of Penn State (Useful for Anyone)
• Community of Science

3. Information Technology

a. Associations

• EDUCAUSE Information Technology

4. Program Planning And Marketing

• UCEA Marketing and Publications Community of Practice
• American Marketing Association
• Meeting Planners International
• Association for Conferences and Events
• National Center for Education Statistics

5. Programs [under construction]

6. Associations

• American Psychological Association Continuing Professional Education
• American Institute of Architects Continuing Education
• American Speech Language Hearing Association Continuing Education
• Accrediting Council for Education and Training

7. Member Pages

a. Community Members [under construction]

b. Educational Provider Members

• Penn State University Outreach & Cooperative Extension
• University of Wisconsin
• Ohio State University

c. Service Providers

• College Board, CLEP Testing
• The Chronicle of Higher Education

IV. Scholarship of Outreach

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