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Dan Eastmond is Assistant Professor in the Technology for Training and Development Division, School of Education, at the University of South Dakota, and the campus coordinator for the Learning Organizations for Technology Integration (LOFTI) Project, a statewide challenge grant from the U.S. Office of Education. He is the author ofAlone but Together: Adult Distance Study Through Computer Conferencing, (Hampton Press, 1995). He can be reached at deastmon@usd.edu.

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Eastmond, D. Realizing the promise of distance education in low technology countries. ETR&D 48, 100–111 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02313405

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