Table of Contents

1. The convergence of distance and conventional education: patterns of flexibility for the individual learner, Alan Tait and Roger Mills; 2. Thoughts on the efficacy and ethics of using multi-media for educational purposes, Mark Chambers; 3. On access: towards opening the lifeworld within adult higher education systems, Lee Herman and Alan Mandell; 4. Introducing and supporting change towards more flexible teaching approaches, Sue Johnston; 5. Becoming flexible: what does it mean? Denise Kirkpatrick and Viktor Jakupec; 6. Diversity, convergence and the evolution of student support in higher education in the UK, Roger Mills; 7. Convergence of student types: issues for distance education, Rick Powell, Sharon McGuire, and Gail Crawford; 8. Canaries in the mine? Women's experience and new learning technologies, Jennifer O'Rourke; 9. A worthwhile education? Pat Rickwood with Vicki Goodwin; 10. Notes from the margins: library experiences of postgraduate distance learning students, Kate Stephens; 11. The convergence of distance and conventional education: some issues of policy, Alan Tait; 12. From marginal to mainstream: critical issues in the adoption of information technologies for tertiary teaching and learning, Diane Thompson; 13. Building tools for flexibility: designing interactive multi-media at the Open University of Hong Kong, Ross Vermeer; 14. A case study of convergence between conventional and distance education: using constructivism and post-modernism as a framework to unconverge the mind, Gill Young and Di Marks-Maran

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Edited by Roger Mils, Alan Tait