Learning Assistance is an interdisciplinary support service. Its administrators and practitioners have varied backgrounds and professional interests including educational technology, distance education, higher education administration, research, corporate training, academic disciplines (writing, reading, learning, math & science), tutoring, and developmental education (writing, math, reading, study skills).       

The following URL (Universal Resource Locator) directory lists professional associations or centers that have a web presence on the Internet. Many of them can contribute to collegiality, networking, and increased professionality of learning assistance administrators and practitioners.       

If you find that a learning assistance related association or center with a web presence has been overlooked, send an email with its name and URL so that we can add it to this list.     

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1. AECT: Association for Educational Communications and Technology http://www.aect.org/  
      
2. AAACE: American Association for Adult & Continuing Education  http://www.aaace.org/
      
3. AACC: American Association of Community Colleges http://www.aacc.nche.edu/ 
   
   
4. AACE: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education http://www.aace.org/
      
5. AAHE: American Association for Higher Education http://www.aahe.org/  
    
6. AALL: Association for Academic Language & Learning Inc (Australia/no website)
      
7. ACPA: American College Personnel Association http://www.acpa.nche.edu/ 
    
8. ACTLA: Association of Colleges for Tutoring and Learning Assistance http://www.actla.info/
             
9. Adult Numeracy Network http://www.std.com/anpn/   
             
10. AERA: American Educational Research Association http://www.aera.net/     
              
11. AHEAD: Association for Higher Education and Disability http://www.AHEAD.org/   
              
12. AIP:Association of Internet Professionals http://www.association.org/   
              
13. Association for Institutional Research http://www.airweb.org/    
              
14. AMATYC: The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges http://www.amatyc.org/   
              
15. ANTSHE: Association for Non-Traditional Students in Higher Education http://www.antshe.org/
              
16. ASHE: Association for Study of Higher Education http://www.ashe.missouri.edu    
         
17. ASIS: American Society for Information Science http://www.asis.org/      
      
18. ASTD: American Society for Training and Development http://www.astd.org/         
     
19. ATEA: American Technical Education Association http://www.ndscs.nodak.edu/atea/index.html   
       
20. ATP: Association for the Tutoring Profession  http://www.jsu.edu/depart/edprof/atp
              
21. Chronicle of Higher Education, The: Events in Academe http://chronicle.com/
       
22. CIRTL: Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning   http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/cirtl/
      
23. COE The Council for Opportunity in Education (formerly NCEOA, the National Council of Educational Opportunity Associations) http://trioprograms.org/
    
    
24. CRA: College Reading Association    http://www.collegereadingassociation.org/
    
    
25. CRLA: College Reading & Learning Association http://www.crla.net/   
     
26.  CSRDE: Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange.   http://www.ou.edu/csrde/index.html 
      
27. DETC: Distance Education and Training Council http://www.detc.org/       
      
28. EDUCAUSE: Higher education consortium on managing information resources http://www.educause.edu/ 
      
29. FYE: First Year Experience http://www.sc.edu/fye/            
           
30. HEPROC: Higher Education Processes Network http://rrpubs.com/heproc/             
     
31. Higher Education Listservs: http://www.airweb.org/links/           
     
32. IPF: Instituto Paulo Freire http://www.paulofreire.org/          
     
33. IRA: International Reading Association http://www.ira.org/ 
      
34. ISPI: International Society for Performance Improvement http://www.ispi.org/
    
35. International Tutoring Association http://www.itatutor.org/index.php
              
36. ITSE: International Society for Technology in Education http://www.iste.org/  
       
37. International Writing Centers Association  http://writingcenters.org/    
    
38. The James J. Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in Mathematics Education
    
39. LAANE: Learning Assistance Association of New England http://www.laaneorganization.net/   
              
40. LFICC: League for Innovation in the Community Colleges http://www.league.org/
      
41. LSDA: Learning and Skills Development Agency  http://www.lsda.org.uk/home.asp
     A strategic national resource for the development of UK policy and practice in post-16 education and training. The Agency was previously known as the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA)
      
42. MAA: Mathematical Association of America http://www.maa.org/    
      
43. N4A: National Association of Athletic Advisors for Athletics http://www.nfoura.org/home.htm
      
44. NACADA: National Academic Advisor Associaation http://www.ksu.edu/nacada/  
      
45. NACE: National Association of Colleges and Employers http://www.jobweb.org    
              
46. NADE: National Association for Developmental Education http://www.nade.net/ 
     
47.  NADE: National Association Of Disability Examiners    http://www.nade.org/
              
48. NAFSA: National Association of Foreign Student Advisors http://www.nafsa.org/    
              
49. NASPA: National Association of Student Personnel Administrators http://www.naspa.org/              
50. NCDE: National Center for Developmental Education http://www.ncde.appstate.edu/    
        
51. NCEA: National Community Education Association http://www.ncea.com/
       
52. NCHEMS National Center for Higher Education Management Systems http://www.nchems.org/           
      
53. NCLCA: National College Learning Center Association       http://www.nclca.org   
              
54. NCRVE: National Center for Research in Vocational Education http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/  
    
55. NCTA: National College Testing Association at http://www.ncta-testing.org/
      
56. NCTE: National Council Teachers of English http://www.ncte.org/      
      
57. NEADS: National Educational Association of Disabled Students (Canadian) http://www.neads.ca/    
              
58. NLCA: National Learning Communities Association http://arts.usf.edu/art/nlc/nlca.html
       
59. NODA: National Orientation Directors Association http://www.nodaweb.org/
       
60. NRC: National Reading Conference http://www.oakland.edu/~mceneane/nrc/nrcindex.html
       
61. National Resource Center for First Year Experience and Students in Transition http://www.sc.edu/fye/   
      
62. NISOD: National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development at http://www.nisod.org/  
     
63. NSSE: National Survey of Student Engagement http://nsse.iub.edu/index.cfm

             

64. NTA: National Tutoring Association http://www.ntatutor.org/  
      
65. NSTA: National Science Teachers Association http://www.nsta.org/  
      
66. NYCLSA: New York College Learning Skills Association   www.nyclsa.org  
      
67. OADE: Ohio Association of Developmental Education http://www.oade.org/
     
68. SUMEC: Oklahoma State University Mathematics Education Center http://www.math.okstate.edu/archives/   
      
69. Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) http://lamar.colostate.edu/~ckfgill/   
              
70. STLHE: Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education http://www.umanitoba.ca/UTS/STLHE/
              
71. SCUP: Society for College and University Planning http://www.scup.org/   
              
72. STC: Society for Technical Communication http://www.stc.org/   
    
    
73. TASS: Teaching Academic Survival Skills        http://cit.necc.mass.edu/TASS/index.html
              
74. TRIO http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/HEP/trio/  
              
75. UMKC Supplemental Instruction  http://www.umkc.edu/cad/si/
    
    
76. US DOE    US Department of Education http://www.ed.gov/
    
    
77. WCET: Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications http://www.wcet.info/
              
78. WICHE: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education http://www.wiche.edu/index.asp
              
79. WWW: World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org