The State of Distance Education in Saudi Arabia
Hend Suliman Al-Khalifa of King Saud University, Riyadh, writes about Saudi Arabia's adoption of distance education as part of its educational and development strategies. Policies for distance and virtual higher education institutions are still under development for approval by the Ministry of Higher Education. Distance education is primarily applied where gender segregation is required in higher education, where male lecturers are only authorized to teach female students by means of closed-circuit television, one-way video and two-way audio and broadcast.