The book brought together the best articles about distance education. It was planned to provide theory and practice of distance education for schoolars and administrators in the field. It was designed to be used as a hand book of distance education for educators. It gives an introduction to the serious study of distance education. It is designed to give researchers an authoritative picture of distance education because they are interested in much greater interest in distance education.

It has eleven chapters. The topics of these chapters are defining distance education, history of distance education, the roles of students and teachers in distance education, communication barriers in distance education, distance education as a challenging concept in sociology, a conceptual analysis of distance educational functions and perspectives in sociology, distance education applications around the world, telecommunications technologies in distance learning, the winds of change in open education faculty (oef)–Turkey, diffusion of distance education in North Cyprus, and the evaluation of students’ perceptions of distance education.