Policy for Open and Distance Learning : World Review of Distance Education and Open Learning Volume 4

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 agenda set by new information and communication technologies, the book covers:\* Inputs \* Processes \* Outcomes.The editors, 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.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. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of illustrations......Page 8 Contributors......Page 10 Foreword......Page 14 Acknowledgements......Page 16 The policy agenda and its context......Page 18 Introduction: planning open and distance learning......Page 20 Aims and purpose......Page 26 Inputs......Page 60 Students in open and distance learning......Page 62 Students in distance and open learning: the Asian experience......Page 83 People: staffing, development and management......Page 93 Resources......Page 117 Process......Page 130 Organisational models for open and distance learning......Page 134 Technology......Page 158 Globalisation......Page 175 Governance, accreditation and quality assurance in open and distance education......Page 198 Outputs......Page 224 Benefits for students, labour force, employers and society......Page 226 Costs, effectiveness, efficiency: a guide for sound investment......Page 241 Conclusion......Page 264 Framing policy for open and distance learning......Page 266 Index......Page 277 This book considers the questions that planners and policy makers in open and distance learning need to address at any level of education. Edited By Hilary Perraton And Helen Lentell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.