Policy for Open and Distance Learning considers the questions that planners and policy makers in open and distance learning need to address at any level of education.Starting by analysing the range of purposes for which open and distance learning is used, the book places the issues in context and examines experience in both the public and private sector. As well as discussing in detail new agenda set by new information and communication technologies, the book covers:* Inputs * Processes * Outcomes.The editors, Hilary Perraton and Helen Lentell, have drawn together an international team of contributors who have examined the varied roles of the new technologies as well as low-technology approaches to open and distance learning throughout the world.This book will be invaluable to policy makers in education and those planning or managing open and distance learning programmes. It will also be of interest to students and teachers of education and anyone concerned with comparative education.
Author(s): Hilary Perraton; Helen Lentell
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 288
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Foreword......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
The policy agenda and its context......Page 18
Introduction: planning open and distance learning......Page 20
Aims and purpose......Page 26
Inputs......Page 60
Students in open and distance learning......Page 62
Students in distance and open learning: the Asian experience......Page 83
People: staffing, development and management......Page 93
Resources......Page 117
Process......Page 130
Organisational models for open and distance learning......Page 134
Technology......Page 158
Globalisation......Page 175
Governance, accreditation and quality assurance in open and distance education......Page 198
Outputs......Page 224
Benefits for students, labour force, employers and society......Page 226
Costs, effectiveness, efficiency: a guide for sound investment......Page 241
Conclusion......Page 264
Framing policy for open and distance learning......Page 266
Index......Page 277
