Contents:

• Higher Education: Open for Innovation?
• Online Development Strategies of California Higher Education
  
• Web-based Education: Learning, Knowledge and Instruction
  
• Programme and Course Development in the Open University of China
  
• Needs-Driven Course Development in the Open University of China
  
• Effectiveness of Written Corrective Feedback in Distance English Teaching
  
• Weekly Recommendation of Learning Tasks: Towards a New Approach to Learning Support
  
• Teacher Development and Management in UMUC
  
• Teacher Training in Online Colleges: an Investigation
  
• Roles of Teachers and Learners in Open and Distance Education
  
• Business Model Innovations and Their Implications for Open University
  
• Features and Instructional Affordances of Three-Dimensional Virtual Learning Environment
  
• Personalized E-learning Resources Pushing System Based on Collaborative Filtering
  
• State Benchmark Courses in Western Higher Education Institutes: Status Quo, Issues and Counter Measures
  
• Co-Development and Co-Sharing Mode of Benchmark Courses in Guangdong Higher Education Institutes