Small and rural schools can use the new technologies of distance education to broaden curricular offerings while facing low student enrollments and increased costs. Courses offered via audio teleconferencing permit live teacher/student interaction and often use videotape as well as two-way audio components. Programs from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Eastern Montana State University, and the University of Wyoming are examples of audio teleconferencing. Microcomputer linking via regular telephone lines coupled with an audio bridge over separate lines allows a computer terminal to function as an electronic chalkboard between instructor and student and provides audio interaction as well. The Mansfield Pennsylvania-Utah Teleteaching Project and the Delaware-Chenango Schools network are examples of this technology. Interactive television via satellite is one of the fastest growing distance learning technologies, offering one-way video and two-way audio. Current programs include German by Satellite and Physics by Satellite from Oklahoma State University, TI-IN Network in Texas, Utah's Accelerated Learning of Spanish via Satellite Television Project, and the Telecommunications Project at Eastern Washington University. Administrators should consider local needs and budgets, seek staff and community support before purchasing distance education systems, and provide for equipment maintenance. Addresses are given of programs described in the text. (LFL)