Open and Distance Learning in the Developing World

by Perraton; Hilary

• ISBN13: 9780415393980
• ISBN10: 0415393981
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-12-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This extensively revised and updated edition of Open and Distance Learning in the Developing World sets distance education in the context of general educational change, and explores its use for basic and nonformal education, schooling, teacher training and higher education. It provides a comprehensive overview and includes new material on: the rise and fall of nonformal education in Latin America and Africa; new developments in open schooling in Africa and Asia; crossborder enrolments, fuelled by the rise of e-learning; and, recent developments driven by the new technologies, globalisation, funding policies and international agencies. The book collects together and reviews the evidence on the effects, costs and process of open and distance learning in order to provide a unique, detached and informed appraisal of its strengths and weaknesses. It is aimed at policy makers and practitioners whether they are working in open and distance learning or in education more generally. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Hilary Perraton is now a research associate at the von Hugel Institute, St Edmund's College, Cambridge, UK

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: golden goose or ugly duckling	p. 1
Evidence	p. 15
Nonformal education: the light that never shone	p. 17
Schooling: the door is ajar	p. 34
Teachers: educating the largest profession	p. 57
Higher education: beyond the courtyard wall	p. 82
Crossborder enrolment: virtually wandering scholars	p. 114
Explanation	p. 125
Costs: what the figures say	p. 127
Technology: after Gutenberg and Turing	p. 148
Globalisation: and culture follows trade	p. 162
Political economy: who benefits, who pays?	p. 182
Evaluation	p. 197
Legitimacy: a solution or a problem	p. 199
Annex: Currency values	p. 208
Notes	p. 210
References	p. 214
Index	p. 233
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