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Caswell, Tom; Henson, Shelley; Jensen, Marion; Wiley, David – Online Submission, 2008
The role of distance education is shifting. Traditionally distance education was limited in the number of people served because of production, reproduction, and distribution costs. Today, while it still costs the university time and money to produce a course, technology has made it such that reproduction costs are almost non-existent. This shift…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Distance Education, Access to Education, Educational Resources
Huijser, Henk; Bedford, Tas; Bull, David – Online Submission, 2008
This paper explores the potential opportunities that OpenCourseWare (OCW) offers in providing wider access to tertiary education, based on the ideal of "the right to education." It first discusses the wider implications of OCW, and its underlying philosophy, before using a case study of a tertiary preparation program (TPP) at the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Marketing, Social Environment, Access to Education
de Byl, Penny; Taylor, Janet – Online Submission, 2007
This paper explores the Web 2.0 ethos with respect to the application of pedagogy within 3D online virtual environments. 3D worlds can create a synthetic experience capturing the essence of "being" in a particular world or context. The AliveX3D platform adopts the Web 2.0 ethos and applies it to online 3D virtual environment forming a Web…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Based Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Learning Experience