DISTANCE EDUCATION
Volume 20, Number 1, 1999

CONTENTS

Articles

Alistair Inglis Looking back, looking forward: celebrating a quarter 7
century of serving distance education 'down under'

Peter Goodyear & Asynchronous multimedia conferencing in conrinuing 31
Christine Steeples professional development: issues in the representation
of practice through user-created videoclips

David Jonassen, Learning to solve problems on the Web: aggregate 49
Tirnari Prevish, planning in a business management course
David Christy &
Euthemia Stavrulaki

Peter J. Smith & Differences between Chinese and Australian students: 64
Swee Noi Smith some implications for distance educators

Namin Shin & An exploration of learner progress and drop-out in 81
Juhu Kim Korea National Open University

Reports and Surveys
Christopher K. Morgan Unravelling the complexities of distance education 96
& Maureen Tarn student attrition

Gary J. Ross & Attitudes of business college faculty and administrators 109
Marilyn G. King toward distance education: a national survey

Goran Adelskold, Problem-based distance learning of energy issues via 129
Kjell Aleklett, computer network
Rune Axelsson &
Jan Blomgren

Guglieimo Trentin & The roles of tutors and experts in designing online 144
Santi Scimeca education courses

Book Reviews

George P. Connick (ed.) The Distance Learner's Guide (USA) 162
(Sadhana Puntambekar)

L. Marshall & A guide to Learning Independently 164
F. Rowland (John Dekkers)


Publications Received 166

Notes for Intending Contributors 167

Index to Volume 19 172

Announcements 173