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. CLADEA: Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations (formerly the American Council of Developmental Education Associations)/ACDEA): http://www.crla.net/CLADEA/index.htm
      
24. COE The Council for Opportunity in Education (formerly NCEOA, the National Council of Educational Opportunity Associations): http://trioprograms.org/
    
    
25. CRA: College Reading Association:  http://www.collegereadingassociation.org/
    
    
26. CRLA: College Reading & Learning Association: http://www.crla.net/   
     
27.  CSRDE: Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange:   http://www.ou.edu/csrde/index.html 
      
28. DETC: Distance Education and Training Council: http://www.detc.org/       
      
29. EDUCAUSE: Higher education consortium on managing information resources: http://www.educause.edu/ 
      
30. FYE: First Year Experience: http://www.sc.edu/fye/            
           
31. HEPROC: Higher Education Processes Network: http://rrpubs.com/heproc/             
     
32. Higher Education Listservs: http://www.airweb.org/links/           
     
33. IPF: Instituto Paulo Freire: http://www.paulofreire.org/          
     
34. IRA: International Reading Association: http://www.ira.org/ 
      
35. ISPI: International Society for Performance Improvement: http://www.ispi.org/
    
    
36. International Tutoring Association: http://www.itatutor.org/index.php
              
37. ITSE: International Society for Technology in Education: http://www.iste.org/  
       
38. International Writing Centers Association:  http://writingcenters.org/    
    
    
39. The James J. Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in Mathematics Education: http://www.kaputcenter.umassd.edu/
    
    
40. LAANE: Learning Assistance Association of New England: http://www.laaneorganization.net/   
              
41. LFICC: League for Innovation in the Community Colleges: http://www.league.org/
      
42. 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)
      
43. MAA: Mathematical Association of America: http://www.maa.org/    
      
44. N4A: National Association of Athletic Advisors for Athletics: http://www.nfoura.org/home.htm
      
45. NACADA: National Academic Advisor Associaation: http://www.ksu.edu/nacada/  
      
46. NACE: National Association of Colleges and Employers: http://www.jobweb.org    
              
47. NADE: National Association for Developmental Education: http://www.nade.net/ 
     
48.  NADE: National Association Of Disability Examiners: http://www.nade.org/
              
49. NAFSA: National Association of Foreign Student Advisors: http://www.nafsa.org/    
              
50. NASPA: National Association of Student Personnel Administrators: http://www.naspa.org\
    
    
51. NCDE: National Center for Developmental Education: http://www.ncde.appstate.edu/    
        
52. NCEA: National Community Education Association http://www.ncea.com/
       
53. NCHEMS National Center for Higher Education Management Systems: http://www.nchems.org/           
      
54. NCLCA: National College Learning Center Association:  http://www.nclca.org   
              
55. NCRVE: National Center for Research in Vocational Education: http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/  
    
    
56. NCTA: National College Testing Association at http://www.ncta-testing.org/
      
57. NCTE: National Council Teachers of English http://www.ncte.org/      
      
58. NEADS: National Educational Association of Disabled Students (Canadian): http://www.neads.ca/    
              
59. NLCA: National Learning Communities Association: http://arts.usf.edu/art/nlc/nlca.html
       
60. NODA: National Orientation Directors Association: http://www.nodaweb.org/
       
61. NRC: National Reading Conference http://www.oakland.edu/~mceneane/nrc/nrcindex.html
       
62. National Resource Center for First Year Experience and Students in Transition http://www.sc.edu/fye/   
      
63. NISOD: National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development: http://www.nisod.org/  
     
64. NSSE: National Survey of Student Engagement: http://nsse.iub.edu/index.cfm

             

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