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Synopsis Growing importance of knowledge in the world today and the ever greater numbers of people being trained at the higher level has increased higher education’s responsibility to and its influence within society. The context in which higher education functions is changing dramatically; consideration of the current and potential role of distance education, higher education community should take into account these dramatic changes. Policy makers need to examine the distance education futures available, evaluate and select a preferred future and make sure that public policy and regulatory considerations enable rather than inhibit achievement of this future. This book diagnoses the fundamental changes which are affecting higher education in the context of technological and information revolution, the aim being to show the concepts and principles for action underlying the dynamic vision needed if the new challenges are to be met. It provides not only factual information of local interests but also delineate current national and global thinking, and will be significant reference tool for policy makers, teachers and students of higher education.