Mega-universities and Knowledge Media
Title | Mega-universities and Knowledge Media PDF eBook |
Author | John Daniel |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1136354360 |
A discussion of how the knowledge media can contribute to the renewal of universities, particularly through the development of distance education. It looks at universities which have risen to the challenges of cost and accessibility using technology.
Mega-universities and Knowledge Media
Title | Mega-universities and Knowledge Media PDF eBook |
Author | John S. Daniel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Distance education |
ISBN |
Mega-Universities and Knowledge Media
Title | Mega-Universities and Knowledge Media PDF eBook |
Author | John (Vice Chancellor Daniel, John (Vice Chancellor, Open University) |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis Group |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1996-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780749426347 |
A discussion of how the knowledge media can contribute to the renewal of universities, particularly through the development of distance education. It looks at universities which have risen to the challenges of cost and accessibility using technology.
The Mega-universities and the Knowledge Media
Title | The Mega-universities and the Knowledge Media PDF eBook |
Author | John S. Daniel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 99 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Communication in education |
ISBN |
Higher Education Through Open and Distance Learning
Title | Higher Education Through Open and Distance Learning PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Harry |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1134641443 |
Published in association with the Commonwealth of Learning Open and distance learning has expanded dramatically in recent years across the world, across the spectrum of subject areas, and across educational levels. This book takes a detailed look at the state of the art of open and distance learning in higher education, and presents a fascinating picture of a world and its educational culture in transition. This edited collection contains authoritative analyses of key issues together with current accounts of practice in each region of the world. It includes *open and distance learning in relation to internationalisation, lifelong learning and flexible learning *costs of distance education *the impact of telecommunications *applications of open and distance learning in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. It draws together experts in the field from all over the world, and has a truly international perspective on the phenomenon of open and distance learning. Its unparalleled breadth of coverage makes it an indispensable work of reference for experts and newcomers alike.
Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers
Title | Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers PDF eBook |
Author | Sir John Daniel |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2010-08-27 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135163324 |
Education for All (EFA) has been a top priority for governments and intergovernmental development agencies for the last twenty years. So far the global EFA movement has placed its principal focus on providing quality universal primary education (UPE) for all children by 2015. The latest addition to The Open and Flexible Learning series, this book addresses the new challenges created by both the successes and the failures of the UPE campaign. This book advocates new approaches for providing access to secondary education for today’s rapidly growing population of children and young adults and examines: the creation and expansion of Mega-Schools, which combine distance learning and community support and have a proven track record of increasing access at scale how to prepare the ten-million new teachers that are required to achieve Education for All by 2015 by focusing on classroom-based in-service training strategies for using technology to scale up distance education cost-effectively the creation of a twenty-first century educational ecosystem that integrates open schooling and teacher education with communities and their school systems successful examples of open schools and teacher education programmes operating at scale around the world. Readers will be delighted to find that Sir John Daniel, bestselling Routledge author of Mega Universities and Knowledge Media, delivers another insightful and practical book on educational technology. Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers will be of interest to all who are concerned by the central educational challenge of our times: providing secondary education to tens of millions of young people around the world.
The Knowledge Medium
Title | The Knowledge Medium PDF eBook |
Author | Gary A. Berg |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1591401119 |
The Knowledge Medium: Designing Effective Computer-Based Learning Environments suggests that the understanding of computers as a medium may be a key to reenvisioning educational technology. Because the subject is interdisciplinary, combining science with the humanities, the theoretical discussion draws from a broad range of disciplines: psychology, educational theory, film criticism, and more.