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Delivering Digitally : Managing the Transition to the Knowledge Media (Open and Distance Learning) by Alistair Inglis, Peter Ling, Vera Joosten

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Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace : Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) by Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt

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Dancing With the Devil : Information Technology and the New Competition in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) by Richard N. Katz (Editor)

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Experts in distance education libraries and information databases discussed the changing nature of knowledge management and available technologies and examined how COL and its Information Resource Center (http://www.col.org /irc/irc.htm) can best meet the needs of stakeholders around the Commonwealth.

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