`Technology for learning, supported by tutoring and counselling, those are the themes of the book. Covering five continents, it all makes good reading, ...' - Times Educational Supplement

• List of Contributors, Foreword by Anastasios Christodoulou, Preface, List of abbreviations, 1 Collaboration in distance education: an introduction, 2 Institutional cultures and their impact: ‘laddered’ studies in health sciences in British Columbia, 3 Constructing a Master of Distance Education programme: an Australian collaboration in programme development and teaching, 4 Creating self-learning materials for of f-campus studies: a Malaysian-Australian-Canadian training project, 5 The way of the future? Transfer credit and credit banking, 6 The Toowoomba Accord: a blueprint for collaborative external studies, 7 The rise and fall of a consortium: the story of the University of Mid-America, 8 The Contact North project: collaborative project management in Ontario, 9 Policies and trends in inter-institutional collaboration, References, Index

`Technology for learning, supported by tutoring and counselling, those are the themes of the book. Covering five continents, it all makes good reading, ...' - Times Educational Supplement

• List of Contributors, Foreword by Anastasios Christodoulou, Preface, List of abbreviations, 1 Collaboration in distance education: an introduction, 2 Institutional cultures and their impact: ‘laddered’ studies in health sciences in British Columbia, 3 Constructing a Master of Distance Education programme: an Australian collaboration in programme development and teaching, 4 Creating self-learning materials for of f-campus studies: a Malaysian-Australian-Canadian training project, 5 The way of the future? Transfer credit and credit banking, 6 The Toowoomba Accord: a blueprint for collaborative external studies, 7 The rise and fall of a consortium: the story of the University of Mid-America, 8 The Contact North project: collaborative project management in Ontario, 9 Policies and trends in inter-institutional collaboration, References, Index

`Technology for learning, supported by tutoring and counselling, those are the themes of the book. Covering five continents, it all makes good reading, ...' - Times Educational Supplement

• List of Contributors, Foreword by Anastasios Christodoulou, Preface, List of abbreviations, 1 Collaboration in distance education: an introduction, 2 Institutional cultures and their impact: ‘laddered’ studies in health sciences in British Columbia, 3 Constructing a Master of Distance Education programme: an Australian collaboration in programme development and teaching, 4 Creating self-learning materials for of f-campus studies: a Malaysian-Australian-Canadian training project, 5 The way of the future? Transfer credit and credit banking, 6 The Toowoomba Accord: a blueprint for collaborative external studies, 7 The rise and fall of a consortium: the story of the University of Mid-America, 8 The Contact North project: collaborative project management in Ontario, 9 Policies and trends in inter-institutional collaboration, References, Index