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Tait, Alan – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
This article reviews the discourse of mission in large distance teaching and open universities, in order to analyse the theories of development and social justice that are claimed or may be inherent in them. It is suggested that in a number of cases the claims are unsupported or naive. The article goes on to set out the nature of Amartya…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Open Universities
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Latchem, Colin; Simsek, Nurettin; Balta, Ozlem Cakir; Torkul, Orhan; Cedimoglu, I. Hakki; Altunkopru, Alpaslan – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The international literature provides little in-depth analysis of distance education and e-learning activities, achievements, and challenges in Turkish higher education other than the country's mega-university, Anadolu. This paper examines the development of, and lessons to be learned from, such undertakings by three pioneers--two regular state…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Learning Activities