Description: This text provides a comprehensive global survey of distance education discussing the place distance education holds in educational thought, its theories, principles, presentation techniques, its organization and administration.
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`...a valuable foundations reference for the distance education scholar of the theory and practice of distance education.'- - Open Learning
`It is a comprehensive and extremely well-organised analysis of an aspect of education that is both complex and changing rapidly. ... It is a book that is and will remain a cornerstone in any collection of distance education materials.' - Jrnl of Distance Learning