Theoretical Principles of Distance Education (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Distance Education
Release date:	September 1993
First published:	1993
Editors:	Desmond Keegan
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	286
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-08942-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Open learning & distance education
LSN:	0-415-08942-5
Barcode:	9780415089425

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