Public Policies and Strategies of Actors

The synthesis "Public Policies and Strategies of Actors" concerns the same theme as Part 4 of the Handbook of Distance Education (Moore 2007), which deals with policies, administration, and management. Eleven articles illustrate the theme. Three articles are studies about the experience in France between 2000 and 2003 of the digital campuses. Two articles are devoted to the economic dimensions of distance learning and two others to the implementation and understanding of the concept of "partnerships" in which one refers to the Quebec experience. Three articles address specific areas of policy: distance learning in jail, the establishment of new universities in the 1990s, and school support. The latter is a cross- disciplinary article. A conclusion gets back to the salient features of those studies.