In Cyberschools: An Education Renaissance, author and educationalentrepreneur Glenn R. Jones identifies several influences that areforcing change in educational institutions and addresses how onlinelearning and electronic delivery of information can be critical toolsto assist educational, business and community leaders and individualsin making these changes. He also examines: the rising costs of highereducation; the changing characteristics of the adult student; thedevelopment of a global learning community; the transformationof the world to a knowledge society; and how the Internet andtelevision can provide a less costly and more efficient means ofproviding education to a diverse student population. Cyberschools:An Education Renaissance is a good reference for anyone interestedin the underlying fundamentals of distance learning, and alsoprovides the reader with a number of successful distance learningprograms currently available.