Teacher Education Through Open and Distance Learning : World Review of Distance Education and Open Learning Volume 3

How can open and distance learning and information and communications technology (ICT) provide us with more - and better - teachers? Open and distance learning is increasingly used in teacher education in developing and developed countries. It has the potential to strengthen and expand the teaching profession of the twenty-first century and to help achieve the target of education for all by 2015. Teacher Education Through Open and Distance Learning examines the case for using open and distance learning and ICT to train our educators. It describes and analyses the ways in which these methods and technologies are used for: *initial teacher training and continuing professional development *training principals and school managers *training those who provide non-formal adult and community education *communities of practice and sharing of knowledge and ideas within the teaching profession It also discusses the policy-making, management, technology, costing, evaluation and quality assurance aspects of this work. The contributors are outstanding practitioners in the field. The first review in over a decade, Teacher Education Through Open and Distance Learning draws on wide-ranging and international experience to summarise the strengths and weaknesses of new approaches to the education of teachers. It offers invaluable guidance to policymakers, planners, headteachers and teachers Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Figures......Page 8 Tables......Page 9 Boxes......Page 11 Contributors......Page 13 Foreword......Page 15 Acknowledgments......Page 17 Teacher education: challenge and change......Page 18 Open and distance teacher education: uses and models......Page 45 Policy, planning and management of distance education for teacher education......Page 65 Open and distance learning for initial teacher training......Page 89 Open and distance education for teachers' continuing professional development......Page 108 Training non-formal, community and adult educators......Page 129 Open and distance learning for school managers......Page 145 Selecting and using media in teacher education......Page 166 Uses of information and communication technologies in teacher education......Page 188 Evaluation, research and quality......Page 210 The costs of distance education for training teachers......Page 229 Conclusions......Page 251 Index......Page 261 There is increasing and strong interest among governments, institutions, international agencies and teachers themselves in the use of open and distance education methods and technologies for initial training and continuing professional development for teachers. This book examines the case for using infomation technologies and open and distance learning to train our teachers and give us more and better teachers. Given are practical new ways of building and strengthening the world's largest profession.