Education across space and time: meeting the diverse needs of the distance learner

The articles presented in this volume represent a selection from papers submitted to the 'Education Across Space and Time' Distance Education Summit held in Sydney, Australia in February 2013. All papers were subjected to a double-blind peer-review process and those papers adjudged as the most impressive were selected for publication in a Special Issue of Distance Education which will be published shortly after the Summit. The remaining papers selected are available as Open Educational Resources (OERs) from the Summit 2013 website http://www.odlaasummit.org.au/. For those who wish access to those papers in a single volume they have been collated into this book which is available on a pay-per issue basis. We have endeavoured to keep to the formatting provided by the authors, but where appropriate for this format have undertaken minor editing and formatting.