1.  "The Virtual University"
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Educom's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) and IBM held a roundtable of 45 knowledgeable, higher education leaders to discuss the virtual university. The intention was to begin with a vision of what higher education might be like in the future--especially as influenced by the virtual university. The roundtable helped test an initial statement of the issues and contributed its own sense of what was possible and not possible. This paper reflects the results of those deliberations.

2.  Asian Development Bank: Toward E-Development in Asia and the Pacific
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The Global Distance EducationNet (Global DistEdNet) is a knowledge guide to distance education designed to help clients of the World Bank and others interested in using distance education for human development.The Network consists of a core site located at the World Bank and regional sites in all parts of the world.

3.  Benchmarking of Virtual Campuses
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Benchmarking of Virtual Campuses projects is co-ordinated by the Open University in Catalunya. Benvic is aimed at offering to decision-makers systems for evaluation of virtual learning platforms. The BENVIC project is developing an evaluation system that could be used as a reference by many other institutions wishing to apply a virtual training system and to have a quality environment.

4.  Combinando medios para implementar programasa distancia en Colombia
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La descripcion del esquema metodologico del Instituto de Educacion a Distancia de Santander (Colombia).

5.  Distance Educator.com
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6.  Policy Frameworks for Dist. Edu.: Implications for Decision Makers
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One of the models of DL strategic management, a Policy Analysis Framework. The focus is on distance education and management.

7.  Propuesta para una megauniversidad a distancia con la integracion …
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Management of educational processes in the non-traditional learning environment. What should define the processes and learning environments of the virtual university? Preferable features of the model of interinstitution open and distance university.

8.  Quality On the Line: Benchmarks for Success in Internet-Based Dist. Edu.
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This report examines case studies of six colleges and universities that provide Internet-based degree programs. The final outcome is a list of 24 benchmarks that are essential to ensure quality in Internet-based distance education.

9.  The Development of Virtual Education: A global perspective
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A study of current trends in the virtual delivery of education in Canada, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, African Continent, Indian Subcontinent, East and Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, conducted with funding provided by the Department for International Development, London, UK.