Foreword
Introduction
Learning
Chapter One: Interactions Affording Distance Science Education /Terry Anderson
Chapter Two: Learning Science at a Distance: Instructional Dialoguesand Resources / Paul Gorsky and Avner Caspi
Chapter Three: Leadership Strategies for Coordinating DistanceEducation Instructional Development Teams / Gale Parchoma
Chapter Four: Toward New Models of Flexible Education to EnhanceQuality in Australian Higher Education / Stuart Palmer, Dale Holt,and Alan Farley
Laboratories
Chapter Five: Taking the Chemistry Experience Home — HomeExperiments or “Kitchen Chemistry” / Robert Lyall andAntonio (Tony) F. Patti
Chapter Six: Acquisition of Laboratory Skills by On-Campus andDistance Education Students / Jenny Mosse and Wendy Wright
Chapter Seven: Low-Cost Physics Home Laboratory / FarookAl-Shamali and Martin Connors
Chapter Eight: Laboratories in the Earth Sciences / EdwardCloutis
Chapter Nine: Remote Control Teaching Laboratories and Practicals /Dietmar Kennepohl
Logistics
Chapter Ten: Needs, Costs, and Accessibility of de Science LabPrograms / Lawton Shaw and Robert Carmichael
Chapter Eleven: Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching LaboratorySciences at a Distance in a Developing Country / Md. TofazzalIslam
Chapter Twelve: Distance and Flexible Learning at University of theSouth Pacific / Anjeela Jokhan and Bibhya N. Sharma
Chapter Thirteen: Institutional Considerations: A Vision forDistance Education / Erwin Boschmann
Author Biographies
Index
