Higher Education Through Open and Distance Learning

ISBN-13: 9780415197915 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 312 str.

Keith Harry

Opis

This text summarizes the status of open universities and institutions which offer both on-site and distance learning. It opens with an examination of eight institutions and looks at how they have developed and changed over since 1978. The book then looks at open and distance learning in an exemplary group of countries, including Eastern and Central Europe, India, South Africa, Tanzania and Latin America. Each author of one of these geographically-oriented chapters also takes some account of development in other countries where there is a useful point of comparison.

Recenzje

'For a more balanced view of the challenges, achievements, and future of distance learning worldwide, in mind, scope, and spirit, this reviewer recommends this edited work.' - Higher Education in Europe

Spis treści

1 Open and distance learning for the new society PART 1 Themes 2 The internationalisation of higher education 3 The impact of telecommunications 4 Professional reflective practice and lifelong learning 5 Flexible learning and university change 6 The costs of distance education 7 Africa 8 America 9 Asia 10 Europe 11 Oceania Afterword: Open learning and/or distance education: which one for what purpose?

O autorze

Keith Harry was until recently Director of the International Centre for Distance Learning at the Open University, and is now a freelance adviser.