Higher Ed Teaching & Learning

Below is a listing of professional organizations, informational websites, and instructional tools external to Texas A&M.

Please contact us if you know of other higher education teaching and learning resources that are not listed here. We will be glad to share them with the Texas A&M teaching community.

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EDUCAUSE
The eLearning Guild
United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA)

EDUCAUSE
EDUCAUSE is a non-profit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Programs and initiatives include professional-development activities, applied research, strategic policy advocacy, teaching and learning initiatives, online information services, print and electronic publications, special-interest collaborative communities, and awards for leadership and innovation.

The eLearning Guild
The eLearning Guild is a member-driven online information center and community of practice where anyone involved in the design, development, and management of web-based educational or instructional content can identify and access resources to help them build and maintain their projects. The organization strives to ensure that members create successful and meaningful bodies of work, engage in a professional peer network, and focus on expanding their own professional skills, knowledge, and expertise.

United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
USDLA supports the development and application of distance learning and focuses on all legislation impacting the distance learning community and its varied constituencies. The learning communities that USDLA addresses are: K-12, higher education, continuing education, corporate training, military and government training, home schooling, telemedicine, and national and international technology-based distance learning.

Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA)
TxDLA is a non-profit association formed to promote the development and application of all forms of distance learning and to implement effective distance learning strategies for Texans and other distance learning practitioners of the global community. TxDLA members represent public and private education institutions at all levels as well as corporate training professionals and distance learning equipment and content providers, all of whom have interests in keeping abreast of ideas, methods, technologies, and content that will help them develop and maintain leading-edge distance learning programs and products.