Policy for Open and Distance Learning

Taylor & Francis

This book considers the questions that planners and policy makers in open and distance learning need to address at any level of education. > \nPolicy for Open and Distance Learning considers the questions that planners and policy makers in open and distance learning need to address at any level of education.\nStarting by analysing the range of purposes for which open and distance learning is used, the book places the issues in context and examines experience in both the public and private sector. As well as discussing in detail new agenda set by new information and communication technologies, the book covers:\n* Inputs \n* Processes \n* Outcomes.\nThe editors, Hilary Perraton and Helen Lentell, have drawn together an international team of contributors who have examined the varied roles of the new technologies as well as low-technology approaches to open and distance learning throughout the world.\nThis book will be invaluable to policy makers in education and those planning or man.