Theoretical Principles of Distance Education - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0415089425 ISBN 13: 9780415089425

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1993

Riassunto

According to UNESCO statistics, 10 million of the world's 600 million students study at a distance. Theoretical Principles of Distance Education seeks to lay solid foundations for the education of these students and for the structures within which they study. As a more industrialised form of education provision, distance education is well adapted to the use of new communication technologies, and brings to education many of the strengths and dangers of post-industrialism. The central focus of the study of distance education is the placing of the student at home or at work and the justification of the abandonment in this form of education of interpersonal, face-to-face communication, previously considered to be a cultural imperative for education in both east and west. This book explores the problems that distance education poses to the theorist, bringing together an international team of distance educators to address these issues for the first time in a systematic way. The team comprises theoreticians, administrators, experts in educational technology and adult education, experts in learning from video machines, from computers and other forms of technology. Contributions from Italy, and Scandinavia contrast with viewpoints provided by scholars from the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK.

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Advances in technology have since the Industrial Revolution brought about a new form of education, known today as distance education'. The revolution in electronic communications of recent decades has given distance education new status. Today more than 10 million of the world's 600 million students study at a distance. Distance education is now a formal form of learning for those in employment, for homemakers and for those who choose not to go to schools or universities. In the corporate sector distance education is fast becoming the preferred type of training. Theoretical Principles of Distance Education highlights for the first time the implications of these developments for both conventional and distance education. The book explores the problems that distance education poses the theorist. In a closely planned and balanced study, fifteen of the world's leading scholars examine the didactic, underpinnings of distance education, making use of contemporary philosophy, educational philosophy and communications theory. The book sets new levels for the analysis and study of distance education. It demonstrates for the first time that contemporary educational philosophy, didactic strategies and administrative theory can no longer focus solely on the classroom and lecture theatre but must embrace teaching at a distance too. Desmond Keegan is manager of the European Virtual Classroom for Vocational Training project at the Audio Visual Centre, University College Dublin.

Contenuti

Otto Peters, Fern Universitat, Germany; Randy Garrison, University of Calgary, Canada; Peter Jarvis, University of Surrey, UK; Erling Ljosa, Oslo, Norway; Desmond Keegan, Dublin, Ireland, Louise Sauve, Quebec, Canada; Chere Gibson, Wisconsin, USA; Cheryl Amundsen, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Ted Nunan, Adelaide, Australia; Gary Boyd, Concordia University, Montreal; Tony Bates, Vancouver, Canada/The Open University, UK; Grevill Rumble, The Open University, UK; Bernadetto Vertecchi, University of Rome, Italy; Michael Moore, Pennsylvania, USA

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0415089425
• ISBN 13: 9780415089425
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 286
• Redattore: Keegan Desmond