The Commonwealth of Learning, in association with the British academic publisher RoutledgeFalmer Press has published the fourth volume in the World review of distance education and open learning book series. Policy for open and distance learning was jointly published in late 2003 by COL and RoutledgeFalmer Press. It is the fourth volume in the World review of distance education and open learning series. ISBN 0 415 26307 7; paperback, 267 pages; H. Perraton and H. Lentell (eds.)
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What policy issues need to be addressed when planning and implementing open and distance learning?
Policy for Open and Distance Learning considers the questions that planners and policy makers in open and distance learning need to address at any level of education.
Starting by analysing the range of purposes for which open and distance learning is used, the book places the issues in context and examines experience in both the public and private sector. As well as discussing in detail new agendas set by new information and communication technologies, the book also covers:
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Inputs - in terms of learners, staff and resources
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Processes - organisational structures, technologies, globalisation and governance
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Outcomes - benefits set in the context of costs
The fifteen contributors have examined the varied roles of new technologies as well as low-technology approaches to open and distance learning throughout the world and this book will be invaluable to policy makers in education and those planning or managing open and distance learning programmes. It will also be of interest to students and teachers of education and anyone concerned with comparative education.
CONTENTS:
Foreword - Gajaraj Dhanarajan
PART I - The policy agenda and its context
Chapter 1 - Introduction: planning open and distance learning Hilary Perraton and Helen Lentell
Chapter 2 - Aims and purpose Hilary Perraton
PART II - Inputs
Chapter 3 - Students in open and distance learning Janet Jenkins
Chapter 4 - Students in distance and open learning: the Asian experience Szarina Abdullah
Chapter 5 - People: staffing, development and management Santosh Panda
Chapter 6 - Resources Hilary Perraton
PART III - Process
Chapter 7 - Organisational models for open and distance learning Greville Rumble and Colin Latchem
Chapter 8 - Technology Hilary Perraton and Kurt Moses
Chapter 9 - Globalisation Glen Farrell, Yoni Ryan and Andrea Hope
Chapter 10 - Governance, accreditation and quality assurance in open and distance education Bernadette Robinson
PART IV - Outputs
Chapter 11 - Benefits for students, labour force, employers and society Reehana Raza
Chapter 12 - Costs, effectiveness, efficiency: a guide for sound investment Neil Butcher and Nicky Roberts
PART V - Conclusion
Chapter 13 - Framing policy for open and distance learning Helen Lentell
Volume four editors
The editors for Volume four in the series, Hilary Perraton and Helen Lentell, have drawn together an international team of contributors who have examined the varied roles of the new technologies as well as low-technology approaches to open and distance learning throughout the world. Dr. Hilary Perraton is an independent consultant who has worked in international education in open and distance learning for many years. He was the founding director of the International Research Foundation of Open Learning, Cambridge, England. Ms. Helen Lentell is an education specialist on training and materials development at the Commonwealth of Learning, British Columbia, Canada. She is a former staff member of the Open University and of the National Extension College.
