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