Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classroom open learning : a case of old wine in new bottles? / Janet Jenkins -- Living and learning in the information age : from the school to e-school to no school? / Nigel Paine -- The economics of open learning and distance learning in primary and secondary schools / Marianne Bakia -- From government correspondence schools to parastatal colleges of open learning : out-of-school secondary education at a distance in central and southern Africa / Tony Dodds -- EFECOT : supporting the travelling tradition / Ken Marks -- Open learning and distance education for displaced populations / Michael Brophy -- Distance learning in India with open schools / Santosh Panda and Suresh Garg -- Reflections on open schooling and national policy in South Africa / Neil Butcher -- Education by television : Telecurso 2000 / Joao Batista de Araujo e Oliveira, Claudio de Moura Castro, and Aimee Verdisco -- E-learning and the development of open classes for rural students in Atlantic Canada / Ken Stevens -- Virtual high schools in the United States : current views, future visions / M.D. Roblyer -- From distance education to e-learning : the organization of open classes at local, regional, and national levels / Ken Stevens and Carol Moffatt -- Open classrooms and globalization : connections and reflections / Barbara Spronk.