PERSPECTIVES ON DISTANCE EDUCATION
Skills Development through Distance Education
Arun K. Mishra and John Bartram, Editors
© The Commonwealth of Learning, July 2002
ISBN: 1-895369-81-9
OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING PROVIDES a means to accessing the skills needed for development. The demands for training from the labour market are very large and ongoing; the demands from young people seeking employment or wanting to become self-employed are critical.
This book examines the various aspects of delivering skills training by open and distance learning: the stakeholders; the learners; the curriculum; designing, developing and delivering the courses; supporting the students; training the staff; accrediting the results and assuring the quality of training. It also looks at ways of teaching practical skills. The final chapter brings everything together by showing how all of these various processes can be managed from an institutional context.
The writers and case studies are drawn from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India and the United Kingdom. They offer information and advice on increasing access to technical and vocational education using open and distance learning. They suggest how a single-mode institution using traditional delivery methodology might become a dual-mode institution incorporating open and distance learning.
The book is designed for managers, policy-makers and government officials. It applies to any organisation that needs to deliver training to its staff in any sector of employment.
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CHAPTER FILES TO VIEW OR DOWNLOAD IN PDF FORMAT:
Preliminary pages (pg. ix-xviii) 273 Kb
Preface - Gajaraj Dhanarajan
Introduction - Arun K. Mishra
Contributing authors
Chapter 1: Economic development and skills development (pg. 1-8) 76 Kb
Arun K. Mishra
Chapter 2: The key players (pg. 9-20) 148 Kb
Judith Calder
Chapter 3: The potential learners (pg. 21-30) 108 Kb
Magnus John
Chapter 4: The curriculum (pg. 31-40) 96 Kb
Keith Dunbar
Chapter 5: Needs identification and programme evaluation (pg. 41-50) 172 Kb
Neville Weal
Chapter 6: Student support in open and distance learning for TVET
Ved Goel (pg. 51-62) 121 Kb
Chapter 7: Delivering the programme (pg. 63-70) 138Kb
Carol Hampton and John Bartram
Chapter 8: Instructional design (pg. 71-82) 561Kb
Dermot Moore, Annemarie Bates and Jean Grundling
Chapter 9: Teaching practical skills (pg. 83-92) 102Kb
Carol Hampton
Chapter 10: Quality assurance in the delivery of TVET programmes via ODL:
The case of a small island developing state (pg. 93-104) 113Kb
Olabisi Kuboni
Chapter 11: Mobility and articulation (pg. 105-116) 135 Kb
Adrian R. Haas
Chapter 12: The need for staff training and retraining (pg. 117-126) 120 Kb
Marvin E. Lamoureux
Chapter 13: Connecting the dots: Planning and management strategies in TVET
Dick Scales (pg. 127-134) 113 Kb
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