Developments leading to the establishment of a committee on distance education for Western Canadian universities are reported in proceedings of meetings, a steering committee report, and a proposal. An invitational meeting was held in April 1981 to consider: the state of the art on the use of electronic communications media, consortia arrangements…

These proceedings present three opening speeches, eight presentations, and a summary of the presentations from a 3-day conference at which distance teaching practitioners from selected institutions shared their experiences. The opening address (Alister McIntyre) is followed by a speech (Dennis Irvine) that discusses the Commonwealth of Learning,…

This document contains 71 papers and 11 workshop presentations on distance teaching and learning from a conference on educational research. The following are among the papers included: "Bridging Distances and Differences" (Nancy Anderson); "The Role of Site Directors in Faculty and Student Success" (Edith M. Barnett, Jeanie P.…