Nada L. Mach, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, Teacher Education Department California State University, Dominguez Hills Teacher Education Department 1000 East Victoria Street Carson, CA 90747 tel. no. (310) 243-3915  fax no. (310) 243-2800 email: nmach@dhvx20.csudh.edu

David L. Stoloff, Ph.D.,  Professor and Department Chair, Education Department Eastern Connecticut State University 83 Windham Street, Webb Hall Room 129 Willimantic, CT 06226 tel. no. (860) 465-5501  fax. no. (860) 465-4538 email:  stoloffd@easternct.edu

 A. Statement of the Problem
How do Schools, Colleges, and/or Departments of Education (SCDEs) use the World Wide Web (WWW) to recognize, report and reward excellence? What are the indicators of excellence that should be reported? How can they take advantage of the WWW's potential to make key constituents (university presidents, legislatures, governors) aware of the good things they are doing?  How can SCDEs use the WWW to make alumni groups and advisory boards advocates in the community? How can they use the WWW to develop proactive public relations efforts in general? Do their Web sites reveal customized programs, professional development efforts, and attempts to expand communication?  How do SCDEs provide effective Internet, World Wide Web (WWW) curricular resources and experiences that promote models of excellence?

 B. Literature Review
"Cybercasting," the dissemination of information on computer screens using the World Wide Web, is analogous to broadcasting. Those who produce and view SCDEs’ Web sites have the tools to widely and freely share information and ideas.

This roundtable discussion is designed to be a catalyst for discussion of the uses and potential uses of the World Wide Web by SCDEs through reviewing 100 of their Web sites during 2001 and into 2002. It will extend the discussion first presented in a 1999 AACTE poster session, and further developed in both 2000 and 2001 AACTE Roundtables, on how the World Wide Web is used by SCDEs to recruit and retain good teachers, forge community links and to serve learners. It will also extend the research on the use of the Internet as a support in the teacher education process.

Blenz-Clucas (1996) examines the use of the Internet to connect students, parents, teachers, and other community members with PK-12 schools.  Casey (1994) examines how TeacherNet, a community of student teachers linked by electronic mail, supported pre-service experiences by "increasing student reflectivity, rapport with supervisors, team support, self-esteem, knowledge and use of information access and retrieval, and use of computers at home."  In "Networked Learning Communities in Teacher Education," Breuleux, Laferriere and Bracewell (http://www.coe.uh.edu/insite/elec_pub/HTML1998/ts_breu.htm, 1998) describe the proactive efforts of teacher educators in developing SchoolNet (http://www.schoolnet.ca ) a networked community they deem a "teacher education culture that promotes curriculum experimentation, collaborative learning, faculty development, and better linkages to P-12 schools."

Much has been written on the use of the Internet as a public relations and communications tool, but little regarding its use in SCDEs. This presentation will go beyond existing research to explore the potential of the WWW in improving the recognition, reporting, and rewarding of teachers. In addition to the issues of accountability and defining excellence in education, this study will also be placed in the context of social issues generated by the use of information technologies ? in the areas of intellectual property rights, privacy, evaluation and assessment, and access to technology.

In the research study presented in the 1999 poster session on cybercasting by SCDEs, the Web pages of over fifty AACTE member institutions and SCDEs for several other countries were reviewed for the quantity and quality of information at their sites.  Each Web site was analyzed with a checklist of informational items, including school address, faculty directory, program listings, course descriptions, course syllabi, detailed program descriptions, interactive course syllabi linked to other resources, faculty works in progress and papers, SCDE reports online, student works in progress online, and Web pages with surveys for formative evaluation of the programs.  The presenters concluded that consideration should also be given to the ease of navigation within a school’s Web site, as well as other special features of content and presentation.  A Web page on this research study was developed and is readily accessible. The study has been reproduced as an ERIC document (Document # ED429942, 1999).

The 2000 study, " Cybercasting for Integrating Leadership by SCDEs: A Y2K Review," focused on how seventy SCDEs made use of Web-based interactivity to prepare individuals who are skilled in the integration of school leadership roles.  Web sites were featured that were designed to serve as virtual forums for discussions across disciplines and professional roles. Extrapolating from these exemplary models, the presenters suggested strategies for enhancing professional conversation on student learning and community development. One unexpected finding was that a number of the features explored within the evaluation model developed in the researchers' first study were no longer available to the outside observer, such as interactive course syllabi. Passwords to internal servers were necessary.

In 2001, the researchers focused their efforts on how the same 70 SCDEs’ Web sites revealed efforts to recruit and retain caring and competent teacher candidates. Recruitment to both traditional and alternative programs leading to credentialing, as well as evidence of professional development programs were examined. The discussion centered on how SCDEs make use of Web-based information-sharing to develop conversations and unified action plans to improve public relations on the professional image of teachers, while addressing the needs of the emergency credentialed candidates and the increasing shortage of teachers ? particularly in the inner city. There were some limitations in the categorization of efforts on the parts of SCDEs to recruit and retain students, as well as their role in the professional development of experienced teachers.  The researchers assume there are more ways in which SCDEs may be evidencing efforts at recruitment and retention than were described on Web pages.  In addition, there may be other Web pages, for example those announcing interesting events, that are not readily found by a first-time visitor to the SCDE's WebPages. A third point has to do with alumni services. Many schools actually have more than is evident on the Web sites, as the Department of Education is rather small, whereas the campus itself makes available certain services, such as the hosting of Home pages (e.g., at Harvard).

Herein we have extended this study to an examination of the 70 Web sites of SCDEs, to help

1. define indicators of excellence as revealed by documentation and reporting on Web sites;
2. further delineate the ways in which SCDEs make use of Web-based information-sharing to develop conversations and unified action plans to develop proactive public relations efforts, both within the community and with key constituents, political and professional;
3. describe how Web sites can be used by deans to turn alumni and advisory boards into advocates within the community ;
4. provide insight into ways in which Web sites can successfully be used to work with the media; and ultimately
5. suggest exemplary models for online communication between schools of Education and alumni, the community at large, and key constituents who may be influential in SCDE support.

Stoloff and Mach (2001) examined online resources which expand the roles of educators, including models of virtual high schools, school-university partnerships and their online courses for future teachers, general education courses for undergraduates, online teacher education courses and resources for upper division or graduate students, inservice coursework, graduate teacher education programs online, and professional development learning communities for educators. This study documented the potential of online resources to augment, supplement, and supplant the formal structures of schooling.

As we explore Web use by SCDEs in the future, we anticipate a trend toward utilizing the exemplary features. We look forward to increased sharing of experiences in the applications of the WWW in teacher education and in higher education in general, as well as increased collaboration across institutions, including the possibility of developing an international consortium of online educators.

Webliography in Reverse Chronological Order

• Stoloff, D.L., and Mach, N. (2001c). Web Applications for Communication, Community Outreach, and Student Recruitment and Retention in Teacher Education: An Ongoing Evaluation.  http://www.csudh.edu/soe/faculty/NMach/WebNet2001.html
• Mach, N.  and Stoloff, D.L. (2001).  Cybercasting for Sharing Responsibility for Recruiting and Retaining Caring and Competent Teachers by SCDEs: A Review. http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/stoloff/aacte2001cyber.html
• Stoloff, D.L. and Mach, N.  (2001b). Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Shared Leadership. http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/stoloff/aacte2001ict.html
• Stoloff, D.L. and Mach, N.  (2001a). Online Learning Opportunities as Advocacy for All. http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/stoloff/ate2001online.html
• Stoloff, D.L. and Mach, N.  (2000).  Cybercasting for Integrating Leadership by SCDEs: A Y2K Review. http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/edu/articles/AACTE2000.html
• Stoloff, D.L. and Mach, N.  (2000).  Cybercasting School-University Collaborations by SCDEs: A Y2K Review. http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/edu/articles/ATE2000.html
• Stoloff, D.L. and Mach, N.  (1999).  Cybercasting SCDEs: A 1999 Review. http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/edu/articles/cybercasting1999.html
• Stoloff, D. (1997) World Wide Web Applications as Tools for Expanding Roles of Leadership in Higher Education Reform. http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/edu/stoloff/AACTEpaper.html

SCDEs use their Web sites to recognize, report and reward excellence in their efforts at community outreach, communication, as well as recruitment and and retetention of teachers. Components of their public relations and recruitment efforts include the following, which we have used to create our evaluation rubric. We have added one additonal point, "publicity on awards to the school, its faculty, and/or its alumni" since our last evaluation effort (Stoloff, D.L., and Mach, N., 2001c).

1. links to current news articles on educational issues of general interest, particularly those focused on the growing need for teachers;
2. publicity on works published by noteworthy faculty and administrators;
3. dates and topics of interesting symposia and other interesting events to be held at the SCDE;
4. educational journals/articles published and available on line;
5. provision for student and alumni home pages;
6. an active alumni association for the SCDE, as evidenced by available contact information, employment links and listservs;
7. evidence of community outreach services, such as programs for gifted k-12 students and/or school/university collaborations, most particularly efforts to support beginning experienced teachers; and
8. publicity on awards to the school, its faculty, and/or its alumni.
9. the Website is easy to navigate.

  Centers - many of the SCDEs on this list have developed webpages for their institutes and research centers.  It is interesting to note that several of the Canadian universities visited tended to emphasize the team nature of research and special projects.  Models for these lists of Centers may be found at Ohio State University, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

    PK-12  Resources - these resources may include summer institutes for future teachers, academic programs for middle and high school students, and internet resources online. Models on this list include Washington's Community of Mathematics Learners, Kent State's Educational Resources for Everyone, University of British Columbia's The First Nations House of Learning, and Cal. State, Dominquez Hills' Allied Signal Challenger Learning Center.

    PDSs - webpages on professional development schools are not as often found within a SCDE's information.  Models include The Learning Bridge at Ohio State, Quebec Learning Consortium at Bishop's University, and the Los Angeles Accelerated Schools Center  at Cal. State, LA.

    Regional collaborations were found on the webpages of several SCDEs, including Stanford's Bridges to the Community, the AFRICAN VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY, and Quebec English Schools Network hosted at Concordia University.

    School homepages were hosted by some SCDEs, including the student-college homepages at Eastern CT State University, Drake University's Headstart , and O'Farrell Community School  project with San Diego State.
 

2. Bank Street College
Since our last review, Bank Street College has added an Alumni Associate Web page that indicates growing and active alumni association, though there is no evidence that students and/or alumni have the freedom to create and maintain home pages. The site continues to include a Guide to Experts, online forums, and links to Bank Street Educational Products and educational reform and outreach projects. Listed on the home page are links to special events and a variety of interesting articles from the New York Times Learning Network.  The Division of Continuing Education has a number of interesting professional development opportunities that are available to teachers, including the New Beginnings in Newark , New Perspectives Continuing Professional Education Program, Bank Street/Stevens IKE and Alliance+ Projects, the Center for School Restructuring of Middle Schools, The West Farms School Project, Bank Street Music Initiative, The Wyandanch Middle School Project. Other collaborative projects are listed and accessed under "Graduate School: Centers and Institutes" (http://www.bnkst.edu/html/graduate/centers.html) Some of these have their own home pages, used mainly for informational purposes. News and events are posted and a newsletter entitled "Street Scenes" is available in PDF format. Interesting articles are available as links as well. Bank Street is one of five national resource centers for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (http://www.bnkst.edu/html/nbpts/index.html), that has as its goal the support the community of accomplished teachers.

3.Binghamton University, SUNY
Includes mission statement and plans for new building.  Three collaborative projects are described at http://sehd.binghamton.edu/liberty/lib.html, one of which has its own informational Web page. The Division of Professional Development and Research (PDR) provides career development for "adult learners." "PDR specifically addresses the distinct continuing education needs of individuals working or volunteering in educational or human service settings. Emphasis is placed on the development of skills to enhance service delivery to specific populations and/or knowledge of specific issue areas. A Certificate Program in Administration is offered through the division." Many of the special events/conferences announced on the Web site are open to the public. As of this latest review, there are links for Alumni, with special events announced, and an Acrobat version of the latest SEHD newsletter, but other indicators of an active alumni association, such as listservs and employment links are missing. Links to faculty research, home pages, and to grants (such as a PT3) held are available in the frame on the left-hand side throughout the site. This frame enables easy navigation as well.

4.Bishop's University
Webpages on Life as an Education Student and documents in English and French on the mission of the School of Education and other research topics.  The University is a partner in the Quebec Learning Consortium (see http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/qlc/), sponsoring and collaborating on the planning of a number of professional development activities for teachers with surrounding Quebec school districts. There are professional development workshops for both new teachers and their mentor teachers, and the Society of Teacher and Administrator Researchers (STAR), a new group committed to the practice of action research. A page that lists research and awards of faculty is available from the main menu, but we found little evidence of faculty home pages or an active alumni association.

5. Boston University
Easy to navigate, Boston University's School of Education has a number of publications available on line, including a digest of their current Journal of Education.From the School of Education Home Page, a click on "Centers and Resources" (http://web.bu.edu/education/centersresources/index.html) will lead to information on two of the school's on-going collaborations with pk-12 schools.  A click on "Research and Curriculum Development" (http://web.bu.edu/education/news/researchandcurriculum.html) brings more information on funded collaborations, as well as the faculty associated with each grant and project. Click on the faculty name, and one may learn more about that person's grants, awards, and research. The Microcosmos Project in the Science Education Program (http://web.bu.edu/education/centersresources/microcosmos.html) serves students and faculty in both the School of Education and University communities by advocating an interactive approach to teaching. It includes many resources and a self-guided tour that shows the linkage of the program to its curriculum-design and national professional-development programs. An active alumni association allows alumni to subscribe to listservs, to learn about special events, and to update current information for the alumni newsletter which is available online and in hard copy. As of the most recent review, several of the Alumni Clubs in different cities (such as Los Angeles, New York, etc.) maintain home pages, but SED does not at this point have a provision for students and alumni to maintain their own home pages. Some of the community Outreach efforts include the Boston University/Boston Public Schools Collaborative, the Boston University/Chelsea Partnership, the Loving Well Project, and the Microcosmos Project

6. Bridgewater State College
Not much has changed at BSC since the last review. Links to Teacher Test Resource Page, program descriptions, and faculty homepages accessible from the more general Bridgewater State College Home Page. Because of the small size of the college, many of the resources are available through the general home page rather than from the School of Education. According to the policy of the College Information Systems, "Faculty, staff, and students may publish personal pages that are linked to the web site through official index pages." There is no evidence of a separate Alumni Association for the School of Education, though the college itself seems to indicate that there is quite a bit of activity, such as posted events and listservs. The Bridgewater Magazine is posted on line, with stories about alumni, their activities, honors and rewards. In addition, there are stories about awards and publications of faculty. There is also a publication on line entitled Bridgewater Review, which appears to carry interesting stories about the research of the faculty. No evidence was found of partnerships with the k-12 community, also on the Teacher Test Resource Page there is a link to an on-line forum on the Massachusetts Teacher Test, and other pertinent information for teachers. Basically, this site is one long page that provides an online copy of the catalogue entries for the School of Education and Allied Studies.

7. Brigham Young University
Links to Advisement and Certification Center, BYU-Public School Partnership, Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling (CITES), Learning Resource Center,  National Network for Education Renewal,  and Partner Schools.  See http://msed.byu.edu/centersAndPartnership/index for further information.  Through the Associates Program (http://msed.byu.edu/cites/programsandprojects/associatesprogram/index.html) teachers and administrators from the public schools, the university and the State Office of Education participate in a series of retreats to discuss selected readings focused on the moral dimensions of teaching (Goodlad). Participants from all groups report significant changes in their own reflectiveness and in school, district, and state level practice. Other partnership projects with school districts are evidenced (http://msed.byu.edu/cites/programsandprojects/programsandprojects.html), such as the "Balanced Literacy Project," the "Bilingual/ESL Endorsement Project," and professional development schools. While the partnerships appear to be numberous, the Web pages were largely informational and did not allow much interactivity.  There are links to important state Web sites in education, however. There is a Web page that provides a few links to various education employment resources both inside and outside of BYU (http://msed.byu.edu/eac/employment/index.html). In the latest review (2002) we noted that each department seems to have made its own strides toward reaching out toward students and Alumni. For example, on the Instructional Technology page, each student, as well as faculty, have their own homepages. Within the Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations  there is a link to the BSU Journal of Education and Law. It looks as though BYU is in the process of putting up information for alumni via each department's Web page, rather than through the School of Education itself.

8. California State University, Chico
Features K-University Education WWW Links: a collection of useful websites for student teachers, teachers, and administrators and information on electronic portfolios for teaching and learning. A link to lesson plan design and rubrics is helpful for both students and those in the field. A Web page that lists school/university partnerships provides evidence that the university is providing outreach to beginning and experienced teachers out in the field. The Beginning Teacher Support and Assistance Project (BTSA), funded through the State Department of Education is one example of this type of outreach. See http://www.csuchico.edu/educ/funproj.html for descriptions of this and other professional development efforts. Also features a lesson-plan resource for k-6 teachers in the Arts (http://www.csuchico.edu/educ/cguenter/229Barts.html).

9. California State University, Dominguez Hills
CSUDH is actively involved a many projects designed to recruit and retain teachers, as is evidenced by the Web page devoted to a long list of such school/university partnerships, grants and other initiatives (http://www.csudh.edu/soe/programs.htm). Professional Development Schools, and outreach programs are numerous, and include a DELTA project, LAEP projects. The Beginning Teacher Support and Assistance Project (BTSA) also is prominently featured on this campus Web site. Further, there are links to on-going subject matter projects on http://www.csudh.edu/soe/subject.htm. Includes links to the School's Teacher Recruitment and Development Programs, graduate options and certificate programs, and NCATE/CTC information.  Faculty vitae, in addition to home pages, are available. The School of Education Newsletter is available on line, with listings of faculty accomplishments and interesting symposia held. There are links to Cal Teach, a lesson planning form, Technology-based Education, and information about Professional Development School partners.

10. California State University, Hayward
Intricate graphics, including a mapped conceptual framework, and links to online reservation for technology resources. A number of partnerships with the k-12 community exist, including a "school-to-career" academy and professional development schools for teacher training.  There is also the "Urban Teacher Academy," that has as its aim the recruitment, mentoring and preparation of teachers (http://edschool.csuhayward.edu/services/urban/index.html). Through the Center for Educational Leadership, CSUH works with the schools and their districts "as equal partners in the areas of leadership and governance, new educator preparation, curricular reform, staff development, supportive learning environment, parent and community participation, and action research." The Web sites tend to be descriptive rather than interactive, with the exception of a list of "Curriculum Links" that are available to both teachers and their students. There is an alumni listserv, but it is not easy to find, nor does there seem to be evidence of an active alumni association. A search of the School's site revealed a committee that plans events in an effort to stay in touch with alumni.

11. California State University, Los Angeles
Searchable Website, informative links, many faculty have interesting and innovative homepages with links to on-line course syllabi. School-University collaborations include DELTA and the Accelerated School. Centers include the "Literacy Cluster," which is interactive and has links to resources for students and teachers. The Los Angeles Accelerated Schools Center (LAASC) (http://www.calstatela.edu/centers/asp/) has as its main function the support of existing "Accelerated School communities" in nine Accelerated Schools "and to provide additional support to accelerated schools nation-wide in terms of outreach, networking, research, and dissemination." In addition, as the Reform Cluster for the Charter School of Education, the Center’s staff also supports additional schools in the process of reform whose reform models share features that are consistent with the accelerated schools model. Faculty accomplishments listed on individual home pages. Lists and descriptions of degrees and certifications offered are available in PDF format. Lists events held in the past, but not announcements of future events. In this latest review, we found evidence of an Alumni Association Website (http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/csoe/develop/dev_frame_welcome.html), with links on how to join. It does not look as if there is any benefit to joining, however, other than the ability to join on line and to declare a gift in support of the Charter School of Education.

12. Clark University
Easy to navigate, this Website features information on community projects with which the university's Education Department is involved.  Change in server for 2/99. Clark and the Worcester Public Schools have collaborated on the development of this exemplary grade 7-12 neighborhood PDS - the centerpiece of a neighborhood renewal project.  In addition, they have developed five other PDSs within the Worcester Public Schools that are used as teacher training sites. In the latest review (2002) we have learned that the Clark University Department of Education has recently received a five-year Carnegie Corporation grant in the amount of $250,000, to esablish the Hiatt Urban Learning Center. This grant was one of only seven awarded in the entire country, and will be used in partnership with the Worcester Publish Schools and Worcester State College. There still is no separate association for Department of Education alumni.

13.Colorado State University
There are detailed program descriptions and SCDU reports accessible at the School of Education Website. Faculty homepages, email addresses and on-line courses are only available through the Faculty directory of the campus as a whole.  One of the teacher recruitment projects, "Project Promise" (http://promise.cahs.colostate.edu/PP/Info.html) seeks out candidates who have bachelor degrees and who have decided to make a career change. Instructors model best practices in an intensive training program that will prepare them to teach in rural or urban settings. Although not easy to find, a list of outreach project links is available at http://www.colostate.edu/Level2/outreach.htm  from the Colorado State Home Page rather than through the School of Education. In particular, the Center for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education has interactive links and resources for teachers and students. The Research and Development Center for the Advancement of Student Learning researches and evaluates innovative programs to advance educational theory and practice. Is has links to important reports posted in PDF format online (http://www.colostate.edu/depts/r-dcenter/completedprojects.html). The Interwest Equity Assistance Center is one of 10 regional Equity Assistance Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  The Educational Equity Center (http://www.colostate.edu/programs/EAC/) provides training and technical assistance within the larger context of school improvement to public school personnel, school board members, students, parents, and other community members.  It assists public school staff in providing equitable, high-quality education to all learners. Employment links for prospective teachers are also available. A newsletter for alumni, listing symposia and faculty accomplishments is available in PDF format.

14. Columbia University
Teachers College has well-developed webpages for program and course information and links to the Distance Learning Project and resources for faculty, staff, and students. Columbia does it all. Many collaborations between Columbia Teachers College and the k-12 community exist, but are not always accessed easily.  For the most interactive experience in learning about these collaborations, go to http://www.tc.columbia.edu/%7Eadmissions/catalog9900/2overview/2prep.htm. An active alumni association, with many events scheduled, library privelages travel opportunities, and listservs. Coming soon, according to the Alumni Association homepage, are the following: finding a classmate; updating address and contact information; free e-mail forwarding for life; adding a name to the listserv; being able to update interests and recent events; a survey on alumni activities and services. There is still no provision for student or alumni to maintain homepages on the TC server. Several journals are available online, including the Teachers College Press, Teachers College Record, and Current Issues in Comparative Education.

15. Concordia University
Department of Education pages with program listings, faculty addresses, some courses - especially those online. No collaborations listed. Only two out of the 31 faculty listed have homepages with publications listed, though most have email addresses.

16. Cornell University
Easily accessed on-line interactive course syllabi, replete with Bulletin Boards on outside reference links.  Faculty home pages are interesting, informative, and have a place for on-going research projects to be posted. Helpful links to a variety of Web sites of educational interest, such as educational journals and professional organizations are available. There are several outreach projects. (1) Cornell Education Resources Program (Cornell ERP) is a nonprofit agency of the Department of Education in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. It serves educators or individuals interested in developing and/or procuring curriculum and instructional materials related to agriculture, food and fiber systems, natural resources and life sciences education.  (2) Rural Schools Program: An organization of some 300 small rural school districts in New York State. (3) Institute on Science and the Environment for Teachers: An in-service education program that supports curricular innovation on environmental topics by teams of New York State science teachers. (4) The Global Seminar is a consortium of educational institutions that are concerned with the future of our planet in terms of the environment and a sustainable food supply. Leading-edge online communication tools support intellectual discussions using an interdisciplinary approach among students, faculty, and international leaders. (5) The Rural Literacy and Community Development Initiative was designed to help Literacy Volunteers and other adult
literacy program members take full advantage of their potential to forge the link between literacy education, community development, and citizenship.

17. Drake University
Includes newsgroups and online conferencing for learning community discussions. Syllabi available online, as well. Online School newsletter is available, as are some faculty home pages with publications listed. A partnership was apparently forged with the Seymour Papert Institute, the Desmoines Public Schools, the Norwalk Public Schools, and Head Start, but the links on the site are not up-to-date.

18. Eastern Connecticut State University
Includes annotated syllabi with links to student projects and other resources, including online bibliographies, electronic textbooks, and software review and interview forms. Home page is easily navigable. Some alumni homepages are up, but no evidence of listserv for alumni. Publications of some faculty listed on home pages. Outreach projects easily accessed.

19. East Tennessee State University
Home page is easy to follow.  Faculty are listed and have home pages that consist of curriculum vitae. Some list their publications.  Courses are listed as catalogue entries, and now more actual syllabi are available online than they were just one year ago.  There are some instructional media student projects posted. Alumni home page has a downloadable newsletter, and invites alumni to submit recent information. It looks as though there may at some point be a place for Alumni to post home pages, but this is not yet available. Several outreach programs and partnerships have been established (http://coe.etsu.edu/community/solutions/index.htm).

21. Florida State University
Includes links to university TV program on Education, "Your Voice", and Inquiry Skills Resources . The Center for the Study of Teaching and Learning is committed to enhancing Florida's Educational Programs through the promotion of educational partnerships with the Florida State Department of Education, local businesses, and the Florida On-line High School, among others.  The Florida State University School is a k-12 public school that has a partnership with the School of Education (http://www.fsus.fsu.edu/)

22. Harvard University
Faculty listing reads like a veritable "Who's Who" in the field of education. Many interactive syllabi on-line, some faculty have informative homepages with links to resources, research, and coursework. School of Education homepage has links to the Harvard Education Letter on-line, the Harvard Educational Review online, faculty research and publications, interesting events and symposia, and doctoral student homepages for posting research in progress and accessing information. Very active School of Education alumni association, with regional activities in every major city in the United States.

23. Illinois Wesleyan University
Includes links to careers in education and an online student handbooks, although no alumni page exists. Mini home pages are available, and some faculty have listed their publications on them. Online syllabi are not available, but catalogue descriptions are posted. Descriptions of student organizations such as Kappi Delta Pi are linked to the homepage.

24.Indiana State University
Includes model NCATE Review and regional Sycamore Education Network, "...a consortium of ISU alumni, faculty, parents, administrators, and members of the community who are working together to strengthen existing or build new partnerships between the faculty, staff, and students of the School of Education and our colleagues in the schools and related agencies." No further information is revealed. Alumni Home page for entire university is linked to the "Sycamore Education Network." There is a page where past events are listed. Faculty home pages exist for some faculty, but are minimal in content and not linked to the School of Education. Links are available to online journals and accreditation bodies.

25. Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Includes strong listing of Centers and Institutes and Partnerships. Links are available to sites for career placements in teaching. There is a k-6 laboratory school on the campus (Indiana University of Pannsylvania School). Professional Development School is in the process of being developed (established in 1998) with a local elementary school. A number of faculty have home pages, with a variety of sophistication. Students from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Clarion University who are enrolled as teacher education majors in all certification areas are eligible to participate in a half-semester student teaching program in one of six overseas sites: London, ENGLAND; Paris, FRANCE; Malahide, IRELAND; Kingston, Jamaica; Poznan, POLAND. Students are assigned to a teaching site in the United States for the first half of the semester. The second half of the student teaching experience is completed in an overseas site.

26. Iowa State University
Features include educational links, faculty listings with email information by program, and faculty homepages exist, but minimally.  A few courses have syllabi on line. Some make use of "Classnet" for Internet communication. Very easy to navigate, this site evidences a strong alumni association and connection. Many interesting events are announced. There are a number of outreach projects that are easily accessible from the home page.

27. Kent State University
Includes College of Education job opportunities, a paper of special interests with a link to virtual reality in education homepage and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a "meet the Dean" link, and information on the Kent Educational Network for Tomorrow.

28. Louisiana State University
Impressive online documentation for NCATE review and PDS agreements.

29. Loyola University Chicago
Includes information on Cohort Program and Career Center .

30. Makerere University, Uganda
School of Education, one of the University's Study Centers, provides program descriptions.  The University's homepage has links to the African Virtual University.

31. McGill University
Faculty of Education webpages includes a link to a Jan. 1997 webpage on Canadian Faculties, Colleges, Schools and Departments of Education on the World Wide Web by Jim Harris, Manager, Educational Media Services, Faculty of Education, McGill University, a course in Global Education with student webpages. Since our last review, McGill has shown evidence of having an active alumni association, with a separate Education Alumni homepage, a pdf file of the latest Alumni newsletter (replete with events and awards noted), and a way for alumni to update their personal information. McGill's Website now reveals that it now has a number of community outreach efforts, including the Center for Educational Leadership, providing professional development to teachers, educational leaders, and policy makers. The Office of First Nations and Inuit Education coordinates partnerships with aboriginal communities to deliver community-based teacher education leading to a bachelors in education to meet the needs of the various aborignal peoples (http://www.education.mcgill.ca/ofnie/default.html).

32. New York University
Interesting links to a variety of educational resources and faculty research in progress.  Courses offered on-line include Web-based communication.

33. North Carolina State University
A searchable database of on-line courses is notable, and a number of faculty have informative homepages posted.  Current position papers regarding different issues in the School of Education are posted on the "Teacher Education Forum" homepage, linked to the main homepage.

34. Northwestern University
SESP Alumni  Board Hompage serves as a medium for outreach to the community.

35. The Ohio State University
Includes Points of Pride, a site map, and online faculty, staff, and student directories.

36. Oswego State University, SUNY
Links include an Information Request Form, online alumni directory, NCATE acccreditation information, Teaching and Assessment Resource Site, and "The Gateway to Educational Materials."

37. San Diego State University
Truly easy to navigate, this Website has links both to on-campus and off-campus Websites of interest to prospective and current educators.  Many faculty have attractive and interactive homepages, and on-line syllabi are readily available.  Both the School and individual courses have bulletin boards for discussion of issues.

38. Slippery Rock University
Links to special projects in College of Education, including the History of Education Quarterly, the Multicultural Heritage Center, and partnership programs.

39. Southwest Missouri State University
Includes information on a Site-Based Program .

40. Stanford University
Includes Research and Projects discussions.

41. Texas A & M
Includes a page of links of research proposals under development and other research resources.

42. Université de Montreal
Faculte des sciences de l'education webpages include faculty interest pages, searchable course catalog, and teaching job posting. La faculté virtuelle^TM provides links to courses in TIC (les technologies de l`information et de la communication (TIC) en éducation.

43. Université du Québec a Montreal
Provides both PDF files and html pages for program information - including faculty and course schedules.  Impressive emphasis on community partnerships for this urban campus.  Mostly in French with some links to partnership programs in English.

44. Université de Sherbrooke
Provides information on Student Life, Faculty Services, and (MITIC) an online Microprogramme sur l'intégration des TIC  à la pratique pédagogique.

45. Université Laval
These webpages provide multiple  contact telephone numbers and email contacts.

46. University of Alberta
Provides detailed online program descriptions and planning sheets.

47. University of Bridgeport (CT)
The School of Education and Human Resources' webpages provides program description.  The University homepage features UBOnline and distance learning and options for translated pages in Japanese and Korean.

48. University of British Columbia
Attractive Web design, and easy to navigate.  Faculty profiles are posted, and some have more detailed homepages.

49. University of California, Berkeley
Faculty profiles and email addresses are readily available; faculty homepages are in process.  The few on-line courses available use a multimedia bulletin board entitled "Speakeasy" for the students to communicate with the professor and each other. Links are available to research in progress, as educational resources.

50. University of California, Los Angeles
Faculty homepages, current faculty research projects and easily accessed course syllabi for a number of courses are features that stand out.  On-line discussion groups and other forums are available for alumni and students.

51. University of Chicago
The Department of Education at the University of Chicago was formally closed on June 30, 2001.

52. University of Colorado at Denver
Includes Center for Collaborative Educational Leadership and link to Colorado Education Online .

53. University of Connecticut
Features linking map of PDS/Partner Schools and active listing of Centers and Labs.

54. University of Georgia
There are many exemplary features on this site - clear links to the programs, faculty, and many projects and collaborations.  Faculty have home pages, but interactive course syllabi may be restricted to on-line courses.  There is an excellent on-line newsletter from the College of Education, and the University of Georgia is home to the "League of Professional Schools," a "network of schools" focused on developing "democratic learning communities."

55. University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Includes Special Programs  and Internet Resources and Services

56.University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
A virtual video tour of the School of Education, the university, and Ann Arbor are available on the Dean's homepage.  Educators' links and course schedule available on-line.

57. University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Includes Key Links, University School Teacher Education Partnership, and Affiliated Groups.

58.University of Oklahoma
Links to Partnerships and Community Outreach,  including the  Oklahoma Networks for Excellence (O.N.E.).

59. University of Ottawa
Attractive homepage with information in French and English, a history of the Faculty of Education, and information on awards and bursaries.

60. University of Pennsylvania
Includes information on the GSE's Global Network and online publications.

61. University of Pittsburg
Pages on School of Education services and labs, research projects, missions and goals, and a link to Phi Delta Kappa.  The School of Education Research and Projects website lists links to 18 regional, national, and international projects.

62.University of Southern Mississippi
Includes Online Resources for Teachers and Students and Southern Education Consortium.  Not especially easy to navigate, the USM SCDE Website does contain more features than previous reviews have indicated. Community outreach and collaborations are evident within certain "Center" Webpages, such as the "Regional Service Center."

63.University of Texas at Arlington
Includes Special Projects and Links . There are a number centers reveal collaborative projects and community outreach efforts, such as the Centers for  Action Research,  Bilingual Education, Teacher Career Services, and the UTA-North Texas Writing Project.

64. University of Victoria
Clear list of contacts within the Faculty of Education, faculty and alumni news, links to continuing education courses, programs, and learning resources.  Connections, the the University of Victoria Faculty of Education Research Conference, has conference papers online. Student and faculty homepages are not yet available, nor are the newest in our categories, but we are assured that they are "under development.

65. University of Virginia
Tremendous ease of navigation and a searchable Website are featured.  Faculty home pages are underway, and those that already exist are attractive and informative, and are linked to on-line courses, many with interactive discussions posted. Students and alumni may maintain home pages, as well.  University-School Project Supporting Teaching and Reflection is designed to engage participants in face-to-face and online discussions about teaching and learning across the school year.   Education Policy Pavilion, a comprehensive, interactive resource for  education policymakers in the Commonwealth of Virginia.  Virginia School-University Partnership is "comprised of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, eight Central Virginia school divisions and the District of Columbia Public Schools. Presently, eighteen  Central Virginia School Divisions and the Curry School are involved in the Partnership."  The goal of its Professional Development Consortium is to provide effective professional development programs for teachers and administrators in order to improve instruction and the achievement of students.  There is also links to the Summer Enrichment Program for middle high school students.

66.University of Washington
Features faculty profiles and some homepages, a number of which are linked to on-line course syllabi. Contains searchable database for information or people.  Links are maintained to relevant educational Websites, including the Center for Effective Schools, Institute for the Study of Educational Policy, The Community of Mathematics Learners, Office of Educational Partnerships, with examples of 6 partnership programs.

67. University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Includes a report on the annual alumni survey, a "For Alumni" page, and information on outreach projects, including  the College Access Program, Academic Skills Development Workshop for high school students, Programs for Youth. The University of Wisconsin (Madison) meets all 9 evaluative criteria

68. University of Wyoming
Includes links to Wyoming Teacher Certification  and Employment, Inquiry Projects, and Helpful Links . An active alumni association exists, and pages announcing special projects and grants are evident. The University of Wyoming is one of the few campuses to meet all 9 criteria in this evaluation.

69.Wayne State University
Includes interesting links to the Council of Great City Schools and a regional Technical Support Consortium.

70. Western Washington University: Woodring College of Education
Includes links to useful educational Web pages, as well as to public school Web pages with interesting eduational resources.  A number of online courses are available, but few faculty have their own home pages.  The primary home page is well-designed with clear links to programs and other information available at the university.

Additional Review Sites
During our analyses of the original 51 SCDE websites ("Cybercasting SCDEs: A 1999 Review"), we found two online reviews. In 1995, several doctoral students from Teachers College, Columbia University developed  A Survey of College & University WWW Sites as a project for a course in computer mediated instruction.  They visited  "nearly 500 college and university home pages ... to identify good & poor examples for many different elements within one site."  This review found that "online applications, class discussions, and faculty/student interaction through e-mail are the first signs of progress and the first endeavors to transform a physical institution into a virtual one."  The entire class selected the top15 university webpages in July 1996.

A 1997 review of Canadian Faculties, Colleges, Schools and Departments of Education on the World Wide Web by Jim Harris, Manager, Educational Media Services, Faculty of Education, McGill University, began to examine all of the teacher education programs in Canada.  It was also an attempt to learn about exemplary uses of the WWW to incorporate in the education programs' own webpages.

Conclusions
This study has resulted in an overview of exemplary uses of the World Wide Web for recognizing, reporting and rewarding excellence of professors, students, alumni and community partners by 70 schools, colleges, and departments of Education during January and February, 2002.  It has catalogued exemplary applications that suggest trends for the future.  One category was added to the evaluation rubric since the last review (Stoloff, D.L., and Mach, N., 2001c), that the SCDE have publicity on awards to the school, its faculty, and/or its alumni. Many SCDEs have newsletters available in PDF format where they provide this publicity. In many cases, it was not easy to locate this publicity, and yet it was nonetheless available. One of the finest examples of a page, easily accessible, was at Stanford's School of Education. All the virtual visitor needs to do is click on the link from their home page to the "News Bureau," where he or she will find a number of publications available that will provide news on the school, its awards, faculty publications and awards, news about students, alumni, and so on. Other SCDEs would benefit from Stanford's example.

The number of SCDEs that had perfect scores on our rubric has grown since our early reviews.  In our first review, Cybercasting SCDEs: A 1999 Review,  Arizona State University's College of Education was one of the only perfect scorers. With this review, even though we have increased categories for evluation, the list has grown to include not just Arizona State University, but also Harvard University, New York University, Stanford University, University of Connecticut, University of Georgia, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburg, University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, University of Wisconsin (Madison), and the University of Wyoming.  Another of the ways in which the 51 sites examined for the original presentation have evolved over time (please see "Cybercasting SCDEs: A 1999 Review" and "Cybercasting for Integrating Leadership by SCDEs: A Y2K Review") is that the technology of the pages has become more sophisticated with time. They are more easily navigated, more attractive, and faculty homepages are far more common, although not necessarily as informative as one might like. Online courses now proliferate, whereas in 1999 they did not. When syllabi were found in 1999, they were open to review by the casual observer. Now more and more frequently, the pages are created within a closed system for which a password is necessary, as in Blackboard or WebCT.

In our exploration of the websites of the various schools, colleges and departments of Education, we were able to draw certain conclusions about the limitations of our categorization of efforts on the parts of SCDEs at recognizing, reporting and rewarding excellence of the various members of the SCDE community - professors, students, alumni and community partners.  We assume that there are more ways in which SCDEs may be recognizing, reporting and rewarding excellence than are described on Web pages.  In addition, there may be other Web pages, for example those announcing interesting events, that are not readily found by a first-time visitor to the SCDE's webpages. A third point has to do with alumni services. Many schools actually have more than is evident on the Web sites, as the Department of Education is rather small (as in the case of such campuses as Clark University), whereas the campus makes available certain services, such as the hosting of Home pages (e.g.,at Harvard University).

The goal of this pilot study was to suggest exemplary models for online communication between schools of Education and prospective, current and former students, as well as community outreach.  Much has been learned and will continue to be learned from the uses these early adopters make of computer-mediated efforts toward the recruitment and retention of teachers.  We look forward to hearing from others about this ongoing research and their applications of information technologies to integrate leadership in their schools and regions.

Last Updated on 2/20/02
By
Nada L. Mach, Teacher Education Department, California State University, Dominguez Hills (http://www.csudh.edu/soe/faculty/nmach.htm)and
David L. Stoloff, Education Department, Eastern Connecticut State University (http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/edu/stoloff.html).