This book considers several aspects of providing quality education at a distance: contains the papers presented at the working conference of Working Group 3.6 (Distance Education) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Held in Geelong, Australia in February 2003, the conference was organised in four parallel streams to consider the aspects grouped above, sharing presentations and discussions about establishing quality online environments for distance education. The QED conference attracted some of the key people in their fields both internationally and from within Australia. In addition to the papers presented at the conference, contains an overview of each stream and a report of the discussions that took place in the stream groups. The papers presented by three international keynote speakers are also included. weiterlesen