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Dietmar Kennepohl, FCIC, is Associate VicePresident Academic and Professor of Chemistry at Athabasca University.Lawton Shaw is Assistant Professor of Chemistry atAthabasca University

• ForewordIntroduction LearningChapter One: Interactions Affording Distance Science Education /Terry AndersonChapter Two: Learning Science at a Distance: Instructional Dialoguesand Resources / Paul Gorsky and Avner CaspiChapter Three: Leadership Strategies for Coordinating DistanceEducation Instructional Development Teams / Gale ParchomaChapter Four: Toward New Models of Flexible Education to EnhanceQuality in Australian Higher Education / Stuart Palmer, Dale Holt,and Alan Farley LaboratoriesChapter Five: Taking the Chemistry Experience Home — HomeExperiments or "Kitchen Chemistry" / Robert Lyall andAntonio (Tony) F. PattiChapter Six: Acquisition of Laboratory Skills by On-Campus andDistance Education Students / Jenny Mosse and Wendy WrightChapter Seven: Low-Cost Physics Home Laboratory / FarookAl-Shamali and Martin ConnorsChapter Eight: Laboratories in the Earth Sciences / EdwardCloutisChapter Nine: Remote Control Teaching Laboratories and Practicals /Dietmar Kennepohl LogisticsChapter Ten: Needs, Costs, and Accessibility of de Science LabPrograms / Lawton Shaw and Robert CarmichaelChapter Eleven: Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching LaboratorySciences at a Distance in a Developing Country / Md. TofazzalIslamChapter Twelve: Distance and Flexible Learning at University of theSouth Pacific / Anjeela Jokhan and Bibhya N. SharmaChapter Thirteen: Institutional Considerations: A Vision forDistance Education / Erwin Boschmann Author BiographiesIndex