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Satellite Lessons: Vocational Education and Training for Isolated Communities
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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
Electronic Technology and Its Use with Rural Gifted Students.
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Belcastro, Frank P. – Roeper Review, 2002
Electronic technology can be used to overcome many of the barriers to delivering services to rural schools and it can expand the world of rural gifted students. On-line college and high school sites offering courses are listed. Also listed is a site for tutoring and one offering help for teachers. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education
Increasing Interactive Activity: Using Technology to Enhance Interaction between Teachers, Students and Learning Material.
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Bucknall, Ruary – Education in Rural Australia, 1996
Overview of the interactive technologies used by the Northern Territory Secondary Correspondence School in Australia: print media utilizing desktop publishing and electronic transfer; telephone or H-F radio; interactive television; and interactive computing. More fully describes its interactive CD-ROM courses. Emphasizes that the programs are…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Correspondence Schools