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Praise for The World Is Open "In this epic effort, Dr. Bonk takes the technologies, the concepts, the future and even the past of distance education and synthesizes it into a comprehensible landscape. He gives us a window from which we can see it all. Masterful!" — Glenn R.... read more

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First Sentence

Our first week in Hope, British Columbia--a small town on the banks of the Fraser River--has been exciting.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Open Learning World
1. We All Learn
2. To Search and to Scan
3. E-Demand Around the Globe
4. It's a Free Software World After All
5. MIT in Every Home
6. Portals for the People
7. Making a Contribution
8. Collapse or Die!
9. Who Are You?
10. U-Learning?
11. Learning at Your Service
12. The Treasures and Traps of This Open Learning World
Acknowledgments
The Author
Endnotes
Index

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  1. Curtis Jay Bonk (Author)
 

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