Now that many colleges and universities have embarked on significant distance education curricula, an overview of the state of the art is necessary. This valuable collection looks at distance education through a varied set of critical lenses to help you learn to assess and assure the quality of university-level distance education classes. It will show you how distance education classrooms can affect students' attitudes and behaviors, the use of--and attitudes toward--group projects in online courses, the effects that the use of technology has on the relationship between student and teacher, and a great deal more!