Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Adapting to distance education: how an ethnographic look at student experiences can inform instructional design. 3. An investigation of methods of instruction and student learning styles in internet-based community college courses. 4. Usability of alternative web course structures. 5. Mobile wireless technologies for field-based teacher interns and their partnership teachers. 6. The use of collaborative groups in traditional and online courses. 7. Multimedia, it's how you use it: reflections on a selected computerized teaching technology. 8. Striving for quality control in distance education. 9. Everyman university in Israel: the first two years. 10. An introduction to the methods of cost analysis. 11. Options for delivery media. 12. Evaluation of the Brazilian Telecurso Secundo Grau: summary and policy implications. Index.

"The Future of Distance Education will remain bright for quite a long time. In view of the fact that there are many people who have both financial as well as physical difficulties in getting education through regular means, they need some agency to provide them education and to provide them equal opportunity for advancement in life. In a country like India the future of distance education is full of hopes and aspirations for the rural poor, scheduled castes, backward castes and the handicapped. Nowadays there is more and more emphasis for providing education to socially weaker sections from various modes and the mode of distance education is very effective.

It is hoped that the book will be found to be of immense use to educational planners, educational administrators, supervisors, teachers and the general public alike." (jacket)