Book Review - Educación a Distancia: de la teoría a la práctica

García Aretio's book is a pleasure to read in Spanish.Lorenzo is, among other things, the UNESCO Chair for Distance Education and a superb conversationalist.The joy of hearing his voice is certainly evident when reading this book.His merry, bubbly chat is converted to formal and precise writing, in which paragraphs containing highly condensed theoretical reasoning, or a distillation from years of practice, remains eminently readable.Lorenzo's book also shows another valuable trace from his conversations.Lorenzo's is permanently engaged in many simultaneous dialogues with distance educators in Spain and Latin America, as well as elsewhere.These conversations accelerate his train of thought, provide him with multiple layers of experience, and are processed into an evolving framework which encompasses the evolution of Spain's Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and many of its sister institutions, as well as emerging paradigms such as isolated rural schools or established face-to-face institutions entering the field of distance education.