The Global Distance EducationNet (DistEdNet) is a knowledge guide to distance education designed to help clients of the World Bank and others interested in using distance education for human development. This project initially funded by World Bank and currently administered by The Commonwealth of Learning. The Network consists of a core site located at the World Bank and regional sites in all parts of the world.

This East Asia Global Distance Education Site is one of the regional sites of the DistEdNet hosted and managed by the Centre for Research in Distance & Adult Learning at The Open University of Hong Kong. It aims to provide educators and policy-makers with comprehensive guidance concerning distance education. High quality, multi-lingual materials from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are drawn from published, unpublished, or electronic sources.

	How do you design a distance learning course and how do you ensure the learner benefits from it?			Communication between teachers and learners is by broadcast, recorded, interactive or print technologies.
	Find out different ways of organizing distance education and how to manage budgets, teaching personnel, technology and student administration.			How do you setup and maintain distance education system, at a national or state level, or inside an existing educational institution?

• Core site
• Southern Africa
• East Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Island States
• Central America