Afghanistan 

Nepal 

Ivory coast 

Bangladesh Nius 

Ethiopia 

Bhutan 

Pakistan 

Central African Republic and Chad 

Cook Islands 

Papua New Guinea 

Burundi 

DPR Korea 

Philippines 

Senegal 

Fiji 

Republic Of Korea 

United Republic of Tanzania 

India  

Russian federation 

Zimbabwe 

Indonesia Samoa  Zaire 

Iran Solomon 

Islands 

Nigeria 

Japan Sri 

Lanka 

Mozambique 

Kazakstan Tajikistan Kenya 

Kiribati Thailand 

Burkina 

Faso 

Kyrgyzstan Tonga 

Benin 

Lao Turkey 

Namibia 

Malaysia Turkmenistan 

Maldives Tuvalu   

Marshall Islands 

Uzbekistan 

Mongolia Vanuatu   

Myanmar 

Vietnam  

The catalogue work for Asia, Australia, and Africa was followed up with 18 interviews. 

South America and Southern Europe 

Ana Dias was responsible for procuring entries from South America and Southern Europe. 

The methodological approach was based on pro active and continuous evolving procedures. 

The methodological procedures were characterized by different dimensions of research, used 

in an interactive mode, and composed of the following interactive procedures: 

Search on existing compendiums of web based courses 

International search engines 

Country level search engines 

Newsgroups and Mailing lists 

Ordinary mail 

Personal contacts and partner contacts. 

The searched compendiums of web based courses included Boshier, McGreal, Corrigan, and 

Hobsons. The information provided in these catalogues was extensive but not of great use to 

find information from South America and Southern Europe. The catalogues address mainly 

North American and Canadian institutions. 

By using international search engines, like Altavista, Yahoo, Infoseek and others, we searched 

for institutions and organizations that fit our aims. The search was exhaustively made by 

country, by type of institution (university, college, foundation, association, enterprise), by 

department, etc. The key words used for the search were: distance learning, distance 

education, online training, online education, online learning, open and distance learning, and 

flexible learning. When an online learning provision was found, the institution was contacted 

in order to confirm and access the data found. By using this method, we found some 

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