Distance Education: International Perspectives (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367471795 ISBN 13: 9780367471798

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

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 print-based 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.

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David Sewart, Desmond Keegan and Börje Holmberg

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367471795
• ISBN 13: 9780367471798
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 462
• Editor: Sewart David, Keegan Desmond, Holmberg Borje