Acknowledgement

By Badrul Khan:
When I presented the framework at the Utah State University (USU) in 1997, Professor David Merrill of USU encouraged me by saying he would definitely use the framework for designing Web-based instruction. I really like to thank David Merrill for his encouragement and early endorsement. I would like to thank students at the University of Texas at Brownsville, George Washington University, George Mason University and Towson University who used the framework as part of their coursework to review existing Web-based instruction and training courses. Their comments and suggestions were very useful. I would also like to thank participants in my various keynote addresses and workshops for their insightful comments and suggestions about the framework. I would also like to thanks researchers and professionals who used the framework for their projects. Finally, I would like to thank the following for their critical review of the framework:

• Greg Kearsley, consultant, USA
• Betty Collis, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Som Naidu, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Robin Mason, The Open University, England
• Ali Ekrem Ozkul, Anadolu University, Turkey
• Jianwei zhang, Tsinghua University, China
• Brenda Bannan-Ritland, George Mason University
• Myunghee Kang, Ewha Womans University, Korea
• Sanjaya Mishra, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, India
• Alex and Lani Romiszowsky, Brazil
• Reynold Macpherson, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Herman Van Der Merwe, South Africa
• Jeroen van Merrienboer, Open University of the Netherlands
• Charlotte N. (Lani) Gunawardena, University of New Mexico
• Walter Wager, Florida State University
• Amy Holloway, World Bank
• Thomas Reeves, University of Georgia
• Janette Hill, University of Georgia
• Philip Doughty, Syracuse University
• Nada Dabbagh, George Mason University
• Joanne Williams, University of Texas
• Zane Berge, University of Maryland
• David Peal, consultant, USA.
• Harvi Singh, e-Learning consultant, USA.