Basic education at a distance / edited by Chris Yates and Jo Bradley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bradley, Jo.

Yates, Chris, 1953-

Series:

World review of distance education and open learning ; v. 2.

World review of distance education and open learning ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distance education.

Open learning.

Basic education.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

xv, 256 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Open and distance learning has been used in many ways in the recent past to provide both primary education and adult education. The Commonwealth of Learning works with governments, schools and universities with the aim of strengthening the capacities of Commonwealth member countries in developing human resources required for their economic and social development. Many existing policy documents link distance education with new information and communication technologies, portraying them as a promising universal access and exponential growth of learning. This book answers the key questions to these issues and assesses the impact and effect of the experience of basic education at a distance all over the world and in a wide variety of forms. This is the first major overview of this topic for twenty years.

Contents:

chapter PART 1 Introduction

chapter 1 Basic education at a distance

An introduction / Chris Yates

chapter 2 The elusiveness of integration

Policy discourses on open and distance learning in the 1990s / Elaine Unterhalter

chapter 3 Audiences for basic education at a distance / Lynette Anderson

chapter 4 Basic education curriculum

Contexts and contests / Richard Siaciwena and Jennifer O'Rourke

chapter 5 Organisational and delivery structures / Tony Dodds

chapter 6 Evaluation and quality / Judith Calder

chapter 7 The use of technologies in basic education / Keith Harry

chapter 8 Finance, costs and economics / Fran�ois Orivel

chapter 9 Literacy and adult education through distance and open learning / Usha Reddi

chapter 10 Basic education for refugees and nomads / Jason Pennells

chapter 11 The power of open and distance learning in basic education for health and the environment / Pat Pridmore

chapter 12 Open schooling at basic level / Janet Jenkins

chapter 13 Outcomes: what have we learned? / Chris Yates.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-55800-7

1-134-55801-5

1-280-40228-8

0-203-24414-1

0-203-18762-8

9780203187623

OCLC:

50757534