Tendencies and stakes of literary studies in European open and distance learning universities / Anastasia Natsina -- Teaching first-year students in open and distance education: aims and methods / Ellie Chambers -- Masters-level study in literature at the Open University: pedagogic challenges and solutions / W.R. Owens -- Decolonizing the distance curriculum / Dennis Walder -- The need for a community: a case for world literature in open and distance learning / Takis Kayalis -- Delivering literary studies in the twenty-first century: the relevance of online pedagogies / Kris L. Blair -- Digital pedagogy: taming the palantíri / Ian Lancashire -- Teaching literature in a virtual campus: uses of hypertext / Laura Borràs-Castanyer -- From passive to active voices: technology, community, and literary studies / Louis Marshall and Will Slocombe -- Using technology to overcome cultural restrictions: a case study of teaching English literature online to Arab students / Ayesha Heble -- Literature in digital culture: pedagogical possibilities / Raine Koskimaa -- Teaching poetry with new media / Rui Torres -- Metamedievalism, videogaming, and teaching medieval literature in the digital age / Daniel T. Kline -- From virtuality to actuality: representations and enactments of critical theory on the world wide web / Anastasia Natsina and Takis Kayalis -- HyperCities: building a Web 2.0 learning platform / Todd Samuel Presner -- Affect and narrative encoding: the problematics of representing and teaching Yanyuwa narratives in cyberspace / John Bradley and Frances Devlin-Glass.