Globalization and ODeL: eLearning Made Easy - Softcover

Essel, Harry Barton; Agyei, Douglas Darko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3330076534 ISBN 13: 9783330076532

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Globalization has become a driving force of educational systems. The Ghana has instituted a number of Distance Education programmes for teachers collaborating with tertiary institutions. Teaching staff with requisite know-how and other logistics for distance education are marginal. This resource provides the necessary logistics to enhance distance education in Ghana. The resource highlights key concepts of Globalization and provides general information about knowledge dissemination within a global context through open distance and e-learning. The resource exposes strategies used by effective teachers for modelling the process of information analysis and knowledge acquisition, and extended learning through collaboration and the development of professional learning networks. The resource also discusses open and distance learning delivery modalities as an approach that can help navigate and evaluate an expanding network of information. The main characteristics of distance education, its peculiarities and the needs of distance learners, against conventional face-to-face mode of delivery are highlighted. The target are teachers who are interested in Open Distance and eLearning.

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About the Author

Harry Barton Essel (PhD) is a lecturer at the Department of General Art Studies and an Educational Technologist at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. He is interested in computer programming with Visual Programming Languages. He is currently working on their integration in the Pre-tertiary curriculum.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3330076534
• ISBN 13: 9783330076532
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108