%0 Journal Article %T Book Review ~ Handbook of Distance Education. Edited by Michael Moore and William Anderson %A Reviewed by Robert Spencer %J International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning %D 2003 %I Athabasca University Press %X It is important to note that this book is not a book of ¡°best practices¡± of distance education, nor is it a manual or a practitioner¡¯s guide to distance education. The use of ¡°handbook¡± in the title is more congruent with that of a treatise. That is, a ¡°literary composition dealing more or less formally and methodically with a definite subject¡± (The Concise Oxford Dictionary, 1976). %K book review %U http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/143/223