Sec. I. Program development for distance education.
Ch. 1. Developing an MBA online degree program: expanding knowledge and skills via technology-mediated learning communities / Richard G. Milter.
Ch. 2. Collaborative instructional design for an internet-based graduate degree program / Mary Anne Nixon and Beth Rodgers Leftwich.
Ch. 3. Degrees and programs by distance education: defining need and finding support through collaboration / Frank Fuller, Ronald McBride, and Robert Gillan.
Ch. 4. Beyond demographics, content, and technology: the impact of culture on the design and implementation of a distance education program / Richard Olsen and Robert Schihl.
Sec. II. Professional collaborative endeavors: teaching across the distance.
Ch. 5. Virtual visiting professors: communicative, pedagogical, and technological collaboration / Scott A. Chadwick and Tracy Callaway Russo.
Ch. 6. Intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication, and computer-mediated communication: a synergetic collaboration / Leonard J. Shedletsky and Joan E. Aitken.
Ch. 7. Collaborating on the instructional design and implementation of an environmental education course: the real challenges of collaboration / Richard Huber.
Ch. 8. Pedagogy and process: linking two diversity and communication courses through interactive television / Deborah Brunson and Nina-Jo Moore.
Ch. 9. Camera presentation perspectives and techniques in an interactive audio/video instructional environment: a rhetorical perspecive / Frank P. Trimble.
Sec. III. Creating online learning communities: a focus on communication and student-centered learning in the virtual classroom.
Ch. 10. Planet Xeno: creating a collaborative computer-mediated communication culture / Mary E. Wildner-Bassett.
Ch. 11. Designing and implementing an interactive online learning environment / Mahnaz Moallem.
Ch. 12. Communicating: the key to success in an online writing and reading cource / Ele Byington.
Ch. 13. Fostering intellectual development in a learning community: using an electronic bulletin board / Mary Bozik and Karen Tracey.
Ch. 14. Building a communications learning community / Patricia Worrall and Brian Kline.
Conclusion: teaching and learning with interactive technologies: what have we learned and where are we going? / Patricia Comeaux.