Learning and Teaching in Distance Education: Analyses and Interpretations from an International Perspective

by Peters,Otto

• ISBN13: 9780749435943
• ISBN10: 0749435941
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136358357
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This unique and comprehensive overview of open and distance education is written by one of the best known names in the field. It integrates historical, contemporary and future aspects of distance education. Packed with international case studies, it goes beyond looking at the methods and technology of distance education, giving Otto Peters' renowned visions on the sociological and social impacts of distance education.Now published in paperback for the first time, this new edition includes a new section on virtual universities. A major contribution to thinking on open and distance education, this new edition will reach an even wider audience.

Table of Contents

Series editor's foreword	vii
Introduction	1	(7)
Taking stock	8	(10)
Traditional access	8	(1)
The concept of the `three generations'	9	(2)
A dilemma	11	(1)
The student	12	(3)
Three types of operating mode within institutions	15	(2)
Summary	17	(1)
Distance and proximity	18	(14)
The correspondence model	19	(1)
The conversation model	20	(3)
The teacher model	23	(2)
The tutor model	25	(1)
The technological-extension model	26	(2)
Transactional distance	28	(3)
Summary	31	(1)
Three constitutive concepts	32	(23)
Dialogue	33	(8)
Structure	41	(5)
Autonomy	46	(9)
The three concepts in practice	55	(42)
Dialogical learning	55	(11)
Structured learning	66	(18)
Autonomous learning	84	(12)
Summary	96	(1)
Modifying concepts	97	(31)
Open learning	97	(7)
Lifelong learning	104	(5)
Industrialized learning and teaching	109	(12)
Post-modern learning	121	(4)
Summary	125	(3)
Digital information and communication	128	(55)
An optimistic assessment	129	(1)
A realistic interpretation	129	(2)
First pedagogical analyses	131	(16)
Digression I: integrated modes of presentation	147	(2)
Digression II: occasional and transversal learning	149	(3)
Learning in a virtual university	152	(3)
The pedagogical flexibility of the virtual university	155	(28)
Teaching and learning models specific to institutions	183	(58)
Correspondence studies: the University of South Africa	183	(10)
The great ideal: the Open University in the UK	193	(7)
Research as a basis for learning: the Fern University in Germany	200	(13)
Distance and proximity: the Central Radio and Television University in China	213	(5)
Multimedia systems: the University of the Air in Japan	218	(6)
Autonomous studying: the Empire State College in the USA	224	(5)
Interactive video: the American National University Teleconference Network	229	(6)
Teleconferencing made possible through institutional collaboration: the Canadian project `Contact North'	235	(6)
Analyses and perspectives	241	(6)
Analyses	241	(4)
Perspectives	245	(1)
Final summary	246	(1)
Appendix: Stations on the road from written to digitalized teaching text	247	(6)
References	253	(12)
Further reading	265	(2)
Index	267