Basic Education At A Distance: World Review Of Distance Education And Open Learning: Volume 2 (world Review Of Distance Education And Open Learning, V. 2)

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. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of tables......Page 8 List of contributors......Page 9 Foreword......Page 11 Acknowledgements......Page 13 List of acronyms and abbreviations......Page 14 Introduction......Page 18 Basic education at a distance: an introduction CHRIS YATES AND THOMAS TILSON......Page 20 The elusiveness of integration: policy discourses on open and distance learning in the 1990s ELAINE UNTERHALTER, CATHERINE ODORA HOPPERS AND WIM HOPPERS......Page 44 Themes......Page 66 Audiences for basic education at a distance LYNETTE ANDERSON AND BARBARA SPRONK......Page 68 Basic education curriculum: contexts and contests RICHARD SIACIWENA AND JENNIFER O'ROURKE......Page 82 Organisational and delivery structures TONY DODDS AND PALITHA EDIRISINGHA......Page 104 Evaluation and quality JUDITH CALDER AND SANTOSH PANDA......Page 127 The use of technologies in basic education KEITH HARRY AND ABDUL KHAN......Page 139 Finance, costs and economics FRANOIS ORIVEL......Page 155 Applications......Page 170 Literacy and adult education through distance and open learning USHA REDDI AND ANITA DIGHE......Page 172 Basic education for refugees and nomads JASON PENNELLS AND CHIMAH EZEOMAH......Page 190 The power of open and distance learning in basic education for health and the environment PAT PRIDMORE AND STEPHANIE NDUBA......Page 209 Open schooling at basic level JANET JENKINS AND ARIEF S. SADIMAN......Page 222 Conclusion......Page 244 Outcomes: what have we learned? CHRIS YATES......Page 246 Index......Page 265 In March 1990, 155 governments and most of the world's major bilateral and multilateral donor agencies met in Jomtien, Thailand.