In this "Distance Learning" Special Issue, Errol Craig Sull introduces the "Try This" series of articles to assist with Becoming a Better Distance Learning Instructor. Sull notes, the basics of how to be a solid distance educator are well known: constant presence in the classroom, quick turnaround of student e-mails and assignments, ongoing involvement in discussion, an upbeat and enthusiastic personality, et cetera. Doing these will result--usually--in a course that is well taught and with students learning. But there are additional items, often not well known or overlooked, that can be considered the finer points of online teaching--they can take one's teaching quality to new heights and give students an exceptional learning experience that makes the class especially exciting, keeps students actively engaged in all course functions, and have students leave with long-lasting info and thankful for having taken the course. Implanting one, some, or all of these small things can definitely result in a good distance educator becoming a great one. "Try This" offers some of those finer points. Sull suggest distance learning instructors "Try Them Out!"