Contents

• Preface / Caroline Howard, Karen Schenk and Richard Discenza
• Ch. I. How Distance Programs will Affect Students, Courses, Faculty and Institutional Futures / Murray Turoff, Richard Discenza and Caroline Howard
• Ch. II. Design Levels for Distance and Online Learning / Judith V. Boettcher
• Ch. III. E-Moderating in Higher Education / Gilly Salmon
• Ch. IV. Community-Based Distributed Learning in a Globalized World / Elizabeth Wellburn and Gregory Claeys
• Ch. V. Online Course Design Principles / Lance J. Richard, Kim E. Dooley and James R. Lindner
• Ch. VI. Theory and Practice for Distance Education: A Heuristic Model for the Virtual Classroom / Charles E. Beck and Gary R. Schornack
• Ch. VII. Looking for Indicators of Success for Distance Education / Wm. Benjamin Martz, Jr., Venkateshwar K. Reddy and Karen Sangermano
• Ch. VIII. Online Assessment in Higher Education: Strategies to Systematically Evaluate Student Learning / Elizabeth A. Buchanon
• Ch. IX. Assessing the Impact of Internet Testing: Lower Perceived Performance / Wm. Benjamin Martz, Jr. and Morgan M. Shepherd
• Ch. X. Modular Web-Based Teaching and Learning Environments as a Way to Improve E-Learning / Oliver Kamin and Svenja Hagenhoff
• Ch. XI. The Effect of Culture on Email Use: Implications for Distance Learning / Jonathan Frank, Janet Toland and Karen Schenk
• Ch. XII. A Strategy to Expand the University Education Paradigm / Richard Ryan
• Ch. XIII. Return on Investment for Distance Education Offerings: Developing a Cost Effective Model / Evan T. Robinson
• Ch. XIV. Financing Expensive Technologies in an Era of Decreased Funding: Think Big … Start Small … and Build Fast / Yair Levy and Michelle M. Ramim
• Ch. XV. Education Networks: Expected Market- and Cost-Oriented Benefits / Svenja Hagenhoff and Michaela Knust
• Ch. XVI. Supplemental Web Sites: An Innovative Use of Information Technology for Instructional Delivery / Malini Krishnamurthi