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Title:Focus on Distance Education Developments
Author:Edward P Bailey (ed)
ISBN:160021830X : 9781600218309
Illustrations:b/w illus & charts
Format:Hardback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:206
Weight: .668 Kg.
Published:Nova Science Publishers - June 2007
List Price: 85.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Open learning & distance education


Distance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on the pedagogy, technology, and instructional systems design that are effectively incorporated in delivering education to students who are not physically "on site" to receive their education. Instead, teachers and students may communicate asynchronously (at times of their own choosing) by exchanging printed or electronic media, or through technology that allows them to communicate in real time (synchronously). Distance education courses that require a physical on-site presence for any reason including the taking of examinations is considered to be a hybrid or blended course or program. Distance education is a growth field with the development and spread of the internet. This new book presents developments from around the globe.

Preface; Distance Education Initiatives and Their Early 21st Century Role in the Lives of People with Disabilities; Course Management Tools as 'Gated Communities': Expanding the Potential of Distance Learning Spaces through Multimodal Tools; Computer Conferencing in Distance Education; Pedagogical Sustainability of Network-Based Distance Education in University Teaching; Lifelong Learning will be Based on E-learning: What is the Way to Come There?; Interactive Video Conferencing (IVC) as a Crucial Factor in Distance Education: Towards a Constructivism IVC Pedagogy Model under a Cross Curricular Thematic Approach; A Discourse on the Problems, Prospects, and Progress of Distance Education in a Developing Country; Index.