Research in Distance Education: 2. Revised Papers from the Research in Distance Education Seminar (2nd, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 1991).

Nineteen papers concerning various aspects of distance education and distance education research are presented in this document. The papers are: (1) "Introduction, Celebrating Difference in Research in Distance Education" (Terry Evans); (2) "Discourse or Discord? A Dilemma of Distance Education" (Philip Juler); (3) "Reconceptualising Distance Education" (Garry Gillard); (4) "Constructivist Epistemology and Its Implications for Contemporary Research in Distance Learning" (Olugbemiro Jegede); (5) "Distance Education: Researching Formations" (David Harris); (6) "Revealing Links: Post-Fordism, Postmodernism and Distance Education" (Mick Campion); (7) "Privileging Others and Otherness in Research in Distance Education" (Richard Guy); (8) "Openness in Distance and Higher Education as the Social Control of People with Disabilities: An Australian Policy Analysis" (Christopher Newell and Judi Walker); (9) "Theorising Adult Change and Development through Research in Distance Education" (Alistair Morgan); (10) "Life Course Analysis and Research in Distance Education" (Nick C. Farnes); (11) "A Method for Assessing Student Use of Study Notes" (Stephen Relf and Terry Geddes); (12) "Research in Teleconferencing: Proximics and Student Participation" (Mohammed Razha Rashid, Omar Majid, Abdul Rahim Ibrahim, and Mohammed Ridzuan Nordin); (13) "Student Attendance and Costs of On-Campus Commitments for Distance Education Students" (Eve Cuskelly and John Dekkers); (14) "Computers as Distance Education Research Tools" (Lin Thompson); (15) "Language Learning for Off-Campus Students" (James Butare-Kiyovu); (16) "Creative Conflict Theory and Postgraduate Research in Distance Education" (Ernst Ralf Hintz); (17) "Distance Education: Targeting the Primary Producer and Computer Technology" (Robin Pilcher and Ross Wilson); (18) "Alternatives to Residential Schools: Empowering Students To Succeed at Home" (John Eiseman and Mary Jane Mahony); and (19) "Reflections on Team Research in Distance Education" (David Kember, Tammy Lai, David Murphy, Irene Siaw, Julianne Wong, and K. S. Yuen). (Contains 247 references.) (SLD)