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hypertext: 21, 31, 32, 33, 40, 44, 58, 65–7, 81,
87, 88, 90, 91, 93, 94, 102, 144, 169, 195,
198, 210, 214, 226, 231; space: 90, 93, 227
IBM: 98, 187
identity finding: 164
image of distance education: 13, 15; 16, 100,
204; human: 85, 164; imaginary: 77
image (picture): 59, 61, 65, 77, 78, 88, 132,
138, 139, 174, 195
India: 15, 17, 20, 23
Indira Gandhi National Open University
(India): 17
individualisation: 11, 47, 50, 52, 94, 102,
146, 149, 183, 197, 221, 233
Indonesia: 17, 19
information: 9, 33, 44, 95, 96, 101, 109, 120,
129–56, 157–75, 218, 219, 220, 226, 228,
229, 230, 231, 232; accumulation: 120;
acquiring/acquisition: 44, 64, 133, 142, 146;
“information bomb”: 131; changing: 44,
145; competence: 161; comments: 154–5;
configuring: 166; design: 231;
distribution: 153, 171, 228, 229;
evaluating: 44, 66, 94, 101, 206, 229;
highway: 78, 133; judging: 44;
landscape: 89, 172; managing,
management: 44, 95–6, 132, 161;
McDonaldisation: 146; overflow: 142;
presentation: 87, 143, 192, 226;
retrievable in common languages: 5;
retrieving: 44, 132; searching for: 9, 44,
66, 94, 96, 101, 108, 132, 149, 181, 206,
226; society: 22, 48, 130, 141, 144, 150–1,
152, 205, 233; space: 71, 86, 90, 95, 196,
227; stored: 220; storing: 44, 51, 87, 95–6,
132, 138, 143, 145, 146, 147, 150, 151,
154, 157, 165, 174; summary: 153–4;
transformation: 153, 155, 157–75, 229;
visualising: 166
information and communication media: 12,
13, 20–1, 26, 28, 34, 39, 41, 45, 150,
152; science: 85, 132; society: 207;
systems: 212; technologies: 7, 20, 25, 26,
50, 71, 72, 86, 105, 129, 130, 153, 160,
196, 204, 208, 226, 232
information and knowledge: 130, 153, 154,
228; commercialisation: 155; common
features: 145; conception: 174;
differences: 145; management: 96;
overlappings: 147; overview: 147–8, 151;
relation between: 165, society: 184, 189
infra-structural factors: 45
Index
265
innovation: 11, 13, 22, 34, 47, 48, 59, 65, 67,
94, 98, 101, 102, 105, 130, 160, 170, 187,
189, 192, 194, 200, 208, 215, 220, 228;
educational: 91, 228; pedagogical: 54, 158,
192, 193, 222–6; technical/
technological: 27, 90, 187, 227
instantaneity: 162
institutional autonomy: 186; patterns: 187–93
instruction: 7, 26, 31, 38, 43, 44, 52, 53, 130,
131, 134, 169, 177, 182, 217, 218;
academic: 41, 47; correspondence: 13, 23;
face-to-face: 20, 117, 180; design: 93;
group: 98; individual: 180, 217;
learner-controlled: 216; live: 44;
multi-sensory: 58; oral: 83; paradigm: 92;
pedagogy: 69; programmed: 52, 92, 130,
221; space: 90, 92, 99, 196, 227;
synchronous: 44; target-reaching: 74;
technology: 93; traditional: 53, 86
instructional design(er): 21; 39, 48, 49, 82,
86, 89, 105, 110, 129, 130, 157, 168, 218,
225, 226, 230, 231, 232; situation: 39;
systems: 45
interaction: 39, 44, 62, 69, 73, 74, 75, 81,
82, 83, 89, 98, 111, 115, 119, 122, 126,
135, 142, 143, 160, 171, 181, 189, 191,
213, 229, 232; electronic: 104, 112, 114,
115, 119; face-to-face: 25, 104, 112, 113;
forms: 38, 113; four types: 32–3;
pedagogical: 38; process: 75, 103; social:
32–3, 104; structure: 76; synchronous:
103; virtual: 25, 32, 89, 118
interactivity: 9, 11, 18, 21, 30, 34, 44, 52,
58, 61–3, 65, 67, 69, 89, 99, 102, 113,
119, 151, 166, 181, 182, 183, 189, 190,
192, 193, 196, 197, 198, 206, 209, 212
international commercial corporations: 12
International Council for Correspondence
Education (ICCE): 17
International Council for Open and
Distance Education (ICDE): 20, 25, 27
internet: 11, 12, 19, 34, 35, 52, 54, 55, 66,
71, 78, 79, 80, 85, 97, 116, 123, 148, 164,
165, 166, 168, 171, 172, 181, 182, 187,
188, 195, 210, 228
Internet Relay Chat Channel: 196
internet technology: 11, 34
internet universities: 55, 187, 188, 190, 192,
200
Internet University in Cambridge (USA): 188
interpretation (of information): 133, 228
Iran: 17