Distance Education International Perspectives

• Main Authors: Sewart, David, Keegan, Desmond, Holmberg, Borje
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2020; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Distance education; Education; Distance Study; Average Recurrent Cost; Independent Study; Distance Educators; Distance Learning System; Open University; Distance Education; Follow; Distance Education Systems; Open University Students; Athabasca University; Open University Graduate; Face To Face; David Sewart; Distance Education Institutions; Post-secondary Education; Telecommunications; Tutor Marked Assignments; Conventional Universities; Correspondence Tuition; Educational Tv; Federal Republic Of Germany; Correspondence Education; University Of The Air; University Of Wisconsin
• ISBN: 1000057526; 9781000057522; 0367471469; 9780367471798; 9780367471460; 0367471795
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003033950

Distance education, for long the Cinderella of the educational spectrum, had emerged in the 1970s and early 1980s as a valued component of many national educational systems in both developed and developing countries. The foundation of the Open Universities, developments in communications technology and in audio-, video- and computer-based learning, a new sophistication in the design of printbased materials and better support systems for the student learning at a distance had all contributed to the availability and quality of distance education programmes. Originally published in 1988, this book chronicles this great change in distance education. It presents the best writings on the subject published during the previous ten years. The articles selected for this volume provided a new scholarly basis for the theory and practice of distance education. The editors have brought together contributions from many countries and present authoritative introductions to each of the nine sections. This book provided those in both developed and developing countries with a guideline to one of the most rapidly expanding areas of education at the time.