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Download full textDigital Promise, 2016
The Students and Parents In Cooperative Education (SPICE) Family Literacy Program serves central Maine's Regional School Unit #3 (RSU 3). SPICE's mission is to integrate childhood and adult education. RSU 3 spreads across 440 square miles. Over this vast distance, there is no one town where people gather. So SPICE educators went straight to their…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Literacy Education, Rural Areas, Geographic Isolation
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Direct linkBates, Rodger A. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2012
Distance education strategies for remotely deployed, highly mobile, or institutionalized populations are reviewed and critiqued. Specifically, asynchronous, offline responses for special military units, Native Americans on remote reservations, prison populations and other geographically, temporally or technologically isolated niche populations are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Distance Education, Correctional Institutions
Fahy, Patrick J.; Steel, Nancy – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2008
This paper reports results to date of a three-year project by Athabasca University, intended to determine the education and training needs and interests of employees in a work camp in northern Alberta's oil sands. (Future reports will address results of efforts to provide programming suiting the needs identified, and the uptake, satisfaction,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employee Attitudes, Educational Needs, Access to Education
Twyford, Kylie; Crump, Stephen; Anderson, Alan – Rural Society, 2009
At the Western Institute of Technical and Further Education (WITAFE) in New South Wales (NSW), vocational education and training (VET) courses are being delivered to students in isolated homesteads and remote Aboriginal communities by Interactive Distance eLearning (IDL). IDL provides satellite-supported two-way broadband voice, one-way video and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Distance Education, Adult Education, Adult Students
Stacey, Elizabeth – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
Australia's large distances and widely distributed population has meant that distance education has been an important part of its history. From the earliest provision of schooling by mail through a series of correspondence schools, both state and federal governments have provided a sound infrastructure to support distance education. Innovative…
Descriptors: Correspondence Schools, Vocational Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
