The emerging field of advanced distance education delivers academic courses across time and distance, allowing educators and students to participate in a convenient learning method.

Methods and Applications for Advancing Distance Education Technologies: International Issues and Solutions demonstrates communication technologies, intelligent technologies, and quality educational pedagogy as the most essential requirements for advancing distance education for both teaching and learning. A significant research collection for the advancement of distance learning initiatives, this Premier Reference Source assists academicians, practitioners, and researchers in finding answers to important issues needing addressed for a successful distance education.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Adaptive e-learning processes
Adaptive synchronization
Automatic e-textbook construction
Character retrieval and learning
Collaborative distance learning
Distance education systems
Ontology-based e-learning
Pedagogy-oriented design
Pervasive learning
Semantics-based critiquing

Reviews & Statements

The readers of this book will find answers to important issues necessary to be addressed for a successful distance education and will be reminded that the success of distance education requires effective use of instructional media, planning for instructional media use, visual communication, audio and motion media, computers as tools for learning, and evaluating the effectiveness of instructional media.

– Mahbubur Rahman Syed, Minnesota State University - Mankato, USA

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Mahbubur Rahman Syed is currently a professor of information systems and technology at Minnesota State University (Mankato, USA). He has about 25 years of experience in teaching, in industry, in research and in academic leadership in the field of computer science, engineering, information technology and systems. Earlier he worked in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the North Dakota State University (USA) in the School of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University (Australia), in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh) and Ganz Electric Works (Hungary). He was a founding member of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at BUET and served as Head of the Department during 1986-1992. He served as the General Secretary of Bangladesh Computer Society and also as the General Secretary of BUET Teacher's Association. He received the UNESCO/ROSTSCA' 85 award for South and Central Asia region in the field of informatics and computer applications in scientific research. He won several other awards. He has co-edited several books in the area of e-commerce, software agents, multimedia systems and networking. He guest edited the 2001 fall issue of IEEE multimedia. He has more than 100 papers published in journals and conference proceedings. He has been serving in different roles such as co-editor-in chief, associate editor, editorial review committee, member of several international journals. Dr. Syed has been involved in international professional activities including organizing conferences and serving as conference and program committee chair.

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Associate Editors

Shi-Kuo Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Giuliana Dettori, National Research Council, Italy

Baltasar Fernandez-Manjon, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Fernando Gamboa-Rodriguez, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Vivekanand Gopalkrishnan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Denis Gracanin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Kamalanath Priyantha Hewagamage, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Jason C. Hung, The Overseas Chinese Institute of Technology, Taiwan

Dulal C. Kar, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA

Javed I. Khan, Kent State University, USA

Taku Komura, University of Edinburgh, UK

Yiu-Wing Leung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Frederick Li, University of Durham, United Kingdom

Paolo Maresca, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA

Max Muehlhaeuser, Darmstadt University of Tech., Germany

Maria E. Orlowska, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology

Maytham Safar, Kuwait Unviersity, Kuwait

Nicoletta Sala, University of Italian Switzerland, Switzerland

Ladislav Samuelis, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia Kosice,Slovakia

Ramesh Chander Sharma, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India

Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Marc Spaniol, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Changjie Tang, Sichuan University, China

Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, University of Patras, Greece

Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, UK

Son T. Vuong, University of British Columbia, Canada

Kazuo Yana, Hosei University, Japan

David Yang, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Taiwan

Xun Yi, Victoria University, Australia

Cha Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA

Jianmin Zhao, Zhejiang Normal University, China

International Editorial Review Board

Hussein Abdel-Wahab, Old Dominion University, USA

Gianni Degli Antoni, Inst. for Educational Tech., Italy

Timothy Arndt, Cleveland State University, USA

David Asirvatham, Multimedia University, Malaysia

Jinli Cao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Debasish Chakraborty, Tohoku University, Japan

Han-Chieh Chao, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan

Herng-Yow Chen, National Chi-Nan Univ., Taiwan

Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International Univ., USA

Zixue Cheng, The University of Aizu, Japan

William C. Chu, TungHai University, Taiwan

Pau-Choo Chung, National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan

Chyi-Ren Dow, Feng Chia Univ., Taiwan

Khalil El-Khatib, National Research Council, Canada

Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada

Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), USA

Pete Holt, Athabasca University, Canada

Hui-huang Hsu, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan

Steven Huang, University of Houston, USA

Ren-Hung Hwang, Nat. Chung-Cheng Univ., Taiwan

Gwo-Jen Hwang, National University of Tainan, Taiwan

Qun Jin, The University of Aizu, Japan

Matjaz B. Juric, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Odej Kao, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany

Norihisa Komoda, University of Osaka, Japan

Larry Korb, National Research Council, Canada

Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong, HK

Tak-ming Law, Institute of Vocational Education, HK

Byung-Gook Lee, Dongseo University, Korea

Jong-Hyeok Lee, Pohang Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Korea

Meng-Huang Lee, Shih-Chien University, Taiwan

Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., HK

Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sheng-Tun Li , Nat’l Kaohsiung 1st U. of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan

Jonathan Liu, University of Florida, USA

Fuhua Oscar Lin, Athabasca Univ., Canada

Simon Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural Univ., Japan

Mahla Strogmaier, University of Alaska, USA

Francis Suraweera, Griffith University, Australia

Joseph E. Urban, Arizona State University, USA

Chun-Chia Wang, Kuang Wu Inst. of Tech. and Comm., Taiwan

Te-Hua Wang, Chihlee Institute of Technology, Taiwan

Ying-Hong Wang, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Yuefei Xu, National Research Council, Canada

Kazuo Yana, Hosei University Research Institute, USA

Yun Yang, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia

Jin Tan Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan

George Yee, National Research Council, Canada

Siu-Ming Yiu, The University of Hong Kong, HK

Yanchun Zhang, University of Tasmania, Australia