Through advances in technology, educators will be able to provide school districts with opportunities to present the latest in researcb-based inservice training at minimal costs to individual students. This article will compare factors in the literature associated with successful outcomes in distance education with our experiences providing an inservice teacher education program on attention deficit/hypeactivity (AD/HD). We present the method of a satellite and telephone-based course and the evaluation of this graduate level inservice course.
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