Michael G. Moore is Professor of Education at The Pennsylvania State University, where he has taught graduate courses in distance education for 23 years. He is known in academic circles for leadership in the scholarly study of distance education. He published the first statement of theory about distance education in English in 1972, and has achieved a number of other "firsts" in the field. These include teaching the first course in this subject at University of Wisconsin in the mid 70's, conceiving and helping to start the national annual conference there, and establishing an online internatio...