Welcome to - Margaret Lewis, Vice President of University Relations, UW System; Odd Haddal, Distance Education Coordinator at UW-Platteville, whose articles appear in the FOCUS section of this issue; Sue Faust, newly hired LTE at Instructional Communications Systems, UW-Extension, currently interviewing WisLine users with the hope of using the information to create new WisLine tips; Barb Klein, Instructional Communications Systems, UW-Extension, the WWW Coordinator for the ICS Distance Education Clearinghouse and Jeff Finlay, Program Manager for Professional Development Cooperative Extension, UW-Extension.

Margaret Landstrom, Director of the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Windsor, Canada, a department responsible for the full range of distance education responsibilities, with a distance education enrollment of over 2000 students per year; Jeff Cooper, a high school teacher in the San Francisco Bay area, who has expertise in both developing and using MOO's; Amelia Maretka, Department Head in Computer Science and Technology at Wharton County Junior College in Texas and Steve Kessler, Program Coordinator, Office of Continuing Education, Keene State College, whose office oversees Continuing Education, Summer School and Distance Learning.