Well-credentialed authors collaborate in Distance Learners in Higher Education, designed to give faculty unique perspectives on a variety of issues in higher education today. Edited by Chère Campbell Gibson, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this volume encompasses the full realm of teaching and learning at a distance from both an administrative and faculty viewpoint. 

"This book is being published at the dawn of a new millennium. The symbolic passage from one era to another invites speculation about the future and reflection about the past and its meaning for the future. Higher Education in an Era of Digital Competition: Choices and Challenges focuses upon critical knowledge and perspectives that will guide us in building a new system of higher education." - from the Preface. 

William Horton

Jay Cross, Lance Dublin

This book will help you build a powerful implementation and marketing strategy for your e-learning program. It shows you how to think like a marketing and change management professional by generating awareness for your e-learning brand; position well designed e-learning for maximum effect; develop and implement an effective two-way communication plan; and get your organisation ready to accept e-learning. .

Pope

Where are you both in your understanding and implementation of e-learning solutions? The development and implementation of e-learning solutions has become a topic of discussion for most training organisations. It is also an area of interest among corporations, academic institutions, government agencies and non-profit entities, where it is not limited to those organisations' training departments.

Bill Shackelford

This book walks you through the basic elements of launching and managing a successful e-learning project. Learn why e-learning projects often fail and how to avoid technical issues that can bring an e-learning project to a halt. It provides practical hands-on exercises and worksheets, and a companion website with helpful downloads make it easier and quicker to improve a current project or plan future e-learning initiatives.

Darin Hartley

Selling the concept of e-learning to management can be one of the biggest obstacles in bringing e-learning into your organisation. But you can win the hearts and minds of management with the knowledge, tools, and confidence in this book.

There’s no doubt that a great classroom lecturer can be an inspiration to students. But almost all lecturers worry that their students are not learning how to discover, how to make connections on their own. If you have never taught an online course you’ll be surprised to learn that teaching online, as described by the authors, has the potential for providing students with a truly comprehensive learning experience.