RefDesk Site of the Week
World Lecture Hall has been selected as Site of the Week for 20 February 2000 by RefDesk. Also listed under college research 27 March 2000.

LibrarySpot Reference Site of the Month
World Lecture Hall has been selected as Reference Site of the Month for January 2000 by LibrarySpot, the library and reference information portal of the Web. "We receive hundreds of nominations for the honor, and determined that your site deserves recognition for its outstanding content and contribution to parents, students, teachers and librarians." 11 January 2000.

Educating.net Top Site
[World Lecture Hall] has been chosen as a Featured Top Site by Educating.net, the Internet's premiere education portal. "We choose only the highest quality sites for a Top Site award, and then we select the best of the best to display on our recently introduced Featured Top Sites showcase." December, 1999.

cyberLEARNERS Recommendation
Selected by cyberLEARNERS online educational portal Web site as one of seven recommended online educational resource sites. Look for the WLH banner. July 1999.

AltaVista Online Education
One of AltaVista's top forty links in the Online Education category. 1999.

Lycos Top 5% Best of the Web
The Lycos TOP 5%, billed as a "selective directory of top-shelf sites rated by the Web's most experienced reviewers," characterizes the World Lecture Hall as part of "very best the Web has to offer" in the Education category. 1999.

Ten Top Sources of Online Courses
Positioned among the Ten Top Sources of Online Courses by LearnWell Online. 1999.

Top 40 Links for 1998
World Lecture Hall named as one of the Top 40 Links for 1998 in Kevin Ahern's "Web Spinning" column in Genetic Engineering News.

Citation in Internet Based Learning
Included in a "tour of what is available on the Web for educators" in Internet Based Learning: An Introduction and Framework for Higher Education and Business (Stylus, 1998).

The Alchemist's WebPick Award
Received The Alchemist's WebPick award on 12 September 97 as "an outstanding Chemistry/Science place to visit." The Alchemist is the webzine of ChemWeb -- the World Wide Club for the Chemical Community.

Education World "Best of January" Award
Review calls the WLH a "wonderful tool for teachers and educators and [curious] students...."

Collegiate.net Link
The Center for All Collegiate Information chooses the WLH as an excellent resource for faculty and staff in higher education.

Annenberg/CPB Project Top Ten Distance Education Sites
World Lecture Hall was honored as one of the Annenberg/CPB Project Top Ten Distance Education Sites for 1997.

Top 25 Sites of the Year for 1997
World Lecture Hall named as one of the Top 25 Sites of the Year for 1997 (one of two in education) in Kevin Ahern's "Web Spinning" column in Genetic Engineering News.

International Forum of Educational Technology & Society
IFETS, a forum for developers of technology-based education, focuses on the practical purposes of their developments. As such, the World Lecture Hall was cited as one of IFETS' seven online learning resources links. See the January 1999 review.

Wellspring "Links" Leader
The Wellspring—a collaborative project from Instructional Systems and members of Teachers College, Columbia University—is devoted to the needs of distance educators using the Web to deliver post-secondary courses to their students. Cites World Lecture Hall as a premier link.

Second Review by the Internet Scout Project
See 1994 link below. Linked under these subject headings: (1) Web sites-Directories (2) Internet (Computer network) in education (3) Distance education-Computer network resources-Directories (4)Teaching-Computer network resources-Directories (5)Telecommunication in education. The Internet Scout Project is located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and funded by the National Science Foundation. June 1996.

Textbook Link
Jack Pejsa links to the WLH, naming it " a valuable resource for students to explore" while using the electronic version of his forthcoming textbook, Success in College Using the Internet (Houghton-Mifflin).

Review by the Internet Scout Project
Internet Scout Project reviews the World Lecture Hall as part of their mandate to show the "best resources on the Internet," filtered by librarians and educators "looking for the online resources most valuable to the education community." Evaluated as "an excellent resouce for college and university educators to see how their colleagues are using the Internet for instruction." June 1994.