Contents: Clarifying development and design in distance education -- Seeking a resolution of development and design issues in distance learning: Weaving my own design -- The Critical role of the educational developer -- The Role of developers and designers in distance education -- Exploring the developer's crisis of identity: The Developer's identity crisis -- Defining educational development in distance education -- The Amicable guerrilla, working in a traditional university -- Fiddling while the tome turns: reflections of a distance education development consultant -- Take me to your ... The instructional designer as a leader -- Working through development issues, to seek sense out of practice: Working with writers -- There's many a slip ... slippage in curriculum development -- Instructional design in distance education: promises and pitfalls -- The Role of distance education developer -- The Role of the editor as a course developer -- A Course developer in action - a reassessment of activities in texts -- An Educational developer in Ghana trains teachers by distance education -- Towards clarifying definitions and a theory of development and design: Educational development as a profession -- Making sense of practice: some inside-out theorising -- Design theories for distance education -- Fifteen years of instructional design - a personal perspective.