The kind of history that is taught in the non-traditional contexts which utilize Distance Learning systems, especially at the United Kingdom's Open University (OU) and Australia's Deakin University, emphasizes the relationship of history to the other academic disciplines rather than the traditional approach of enumerating the history of famous people, events, and places. The respective curricula and model degree programs indicate that at Deakin in level 1 courses there is considerable emphasis on the use of sources, textual and documentary analysis, methodology, and historiography. In both universities the commitment to inter-disciplinary approaches to history teaching is maintained at later levels. It is also apparent that opportunities for specialization and for personal research are already well-developed at both the OU and Deakin. Common to both programs is the carefully graded use of sources and applied methodology at different levels--providing the student with "hands on" experience in the use of historical sources and data in personal research appropriate to his/her stage of development and study. Perhaps most vital to the success of distance teaching in historical studies both at the OU and at Deakin is the inter-active nature of the teaching and the various course components. Central to this is the "tutorial in print" pioneered by the OU--which involves the teacher in a direct one-to-one relationship with the student. (BZ)