table of Contents

1. Distance Learning: A Role for Agricultural Economics Education
2. Introduction to a New World
3. borders and Boundaries Disappearing
4. Global Trends
5. Distance Learning is Not New
6. Public Higher Education will survive by:
7. The ADEC Consortiumhttp://www.adec.edu
8. We have to be able to compete with
9. Media Research - U.S.
10. World Wide Web
11. Number of web pages
12. Two important trends
13. Three common communities
14. Information Censorship
15. Agricultural Economists - First movers?
16. What is Distance Learning?
17. Quality, affordable learning opportunities at time and place convenient for learnerAccess and Success
18. Who are the Distance Learners?
19. The "Where" of learning is becoming less important than "What" and "How"
20. "No institutions are better suited to make a difference in our technological future than research universities"
21. NCES
22. Differences in Distance Ed students around the world
23. Challenges and Opportunities
24. Improving Learning Strategies and Pedagogy
25. The Knowledge Marketplace and Electronic Commerce
26. Credit Banking, Standards, Competency based testing
27. Electronic Commerce
28. Marketing and Selling Food and Ag Distance Education
29. Taxes, Identify the competition, Global communities of interest, Private sector will pick low-hanging fruit, Cooperation and reciprocity essential
30. Conclusion