International research: responding to global needs -- Why don't we simply call it "environmental design for the provision and use of distributed learning resources?" -- Trends and issues facing distance education: a nowcasting exercise -- Obstacles and opportunities of distance higher education in international settings -- Distance learning in Brazil: a case of the "fabulous invalid?" -- Reflections and a critical review of the perspectives on global trends and issues in distance education -- Virtual schools: the American experience with international implications -- Interactive radio instruction as a distance education approach in developing countries -- E-Learning in the portuguese educational context -- The difficult route to developing distance education in mozambique -- Will E-learning permanently alter the fundamental educatin model of the institution we call "the university?" -- Distance education: practice before research or research before practice? -- The globalization of the higher education enterprise: issues in the delivery of transnational education in 2011 -- Distance education support systems: challenges and opportunities -- Personal learning environments in distance education -- Metacognition in distance learning: the nelson-narens framework -- E-learning at the workplace: the case of a manufacturing company in Malaysia -- Distance learning in aviation: applications and impacts on a Global industry -- New tools for learning: the use of Wikis -- Formalizing learning spaces for refugee youth -- Learning landscapes: european perspectives on distance learning in prisons

1. Distance education