Basic Education at a Distance: World Review of Distance Education and Open Learning: Volume 2 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415237742 ISBN 13: 9780415237741

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

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.

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Synopsis:

Despite the dramatic expansion of education over the last 25 years, there are still one hundred million children out of school and a billion adults who had no chance of getting to school and cannot read or write. This means that about one fifth and one sixth of humanity are functionally illiterate. Those without basic education are frequently open to malpractice, exploitation or worse - and the majority live in the rural areas of the Developing World. The problem is clearly huge - and complex. This book explores the alternative routes to basic education for both children and adults. It draws on international experience to see how new and old technologies can be used to widen access to education and raise the quality of what is happening inside schools.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415237742
• ISBN 13: 9780415237741
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Bradley Jo, Yates Chris