This first volume of a two-volume report on the Eleventh World Conference of the International Council for Correspondence Education (ICCE) contains the advance papers presented at the conference. An introduction preceding these papers provides the ICCE president's message and an orientation by the host country, India. The 37 papers are organized into the following five categories: (1) correspondence education in general; (2) adminintrative practices; (3) teaching methods; (4) student counseling; and (5) applied research. Some of the topics addressed by these papers are predictions for the future of correspondence education; accreditation and enrollment concerns; financial concerns; the use of satellites, telecommunications, and computers; effective counseling techniques; and research trends and utilization. The biographies of program participants and guidelines for ICCE chairmen and rapporteurs are appended. (BM)