Open and Distance Education in Global Environment
Open and Distance Education in Global Environment
Opportunities For Collaboration
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Bind: Hardbound
Year: 2006
Pages: 450
Size: 185 x 242 mm
Publisher: Viva Books Originals
Sales Territory: Worldwide
Description:
Distance Education is expanding at a faster rate cutting across national and regional boundaries. With the advent and spread of information and communication technology (ICT), distance education has embarked on a path of collaboration, networking and globalization. Quality and accreditation of distance learning programmes and experiences have become highly significant in the ICT-enabled education system. This edited book is a compilation of selected papers submitted for the International Conference 2005 of International Council for Distance Education (ICDE). The papers are grouped into four major themes • internationalisation: collaboration and networking; ICT-enabled distance education; quality assurance; and distance education for development. Covering these four major themes, the selected papers give an overview of the present scenario of open and distance learning the world over. Contributors of this book bring in their experience and reflect on issues related to networking, resource sharing, collaboration, globalization and discuss challenges and possible solutions. In the ICT-enabled education section, issues covering practice, attitude towards technology and learning in online world are discussed. Quality issues in distance education are discussed in Section three, and how distance learning can influence educational and societal development are discussed in the last section.
Target Audience:
This book will be of immense help to researchers and practitioners of distance education all over the world.
Contents:
Section I. Internationalisation: Collaboration & Networking • Section II. ICT-Enabled Distance Education • Section III. Quality Assurance • Section IV. Distance Education for Development
About the Editors:
Suresh Garg is a Professor of Physics and currently Pro-Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.
Santosh Panda is Professor of Distance Education and Director, Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education (STRIDE); and Head, Inter-University Consortium for Technology-Enabled Flexible Education and Development (IUC-TEFED), Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
C.R.K. Murthy is Reader in Distance Education at the Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education (STRIDE), Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
Sanjaya Mishra is Reader in Distance Education at the Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education, Indira Gandhi National Open University. He holds a Ph.D degree in Library and Information Science and has been a training and ICT specialist (since 1993)
