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Spencer, Robert E.; And Others – 1980
Completion and cost data for six courses delivered in two different modes--home study and paced package--through Athabasca University were analyzed. Students in a home study course received tutorial support via the telephone and progress through the course was at the discretion of each individual learner. Students in a paced package course…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Correspondence Study, Cost Effectiveness, Distance Education
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC. – 1977
This bibliography was compiled for the Latin American Meeting on New Forms of Post-Secondary Education and the Seminar on Open Learning Systems held in Caracas, Venezuela, from September 25 to October 2, 1976. The book contains a total selection of 658 bibliographical entries on educational innovations. Part I consists of an annotated bibliography…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Conference Reports
Download full textMoore, Michael G. – 1987
The Open University is recognized as a model of innovation in higher education, not merely for advances in the use of communications technology, but also for demonstrating the applications of such principles of technology as systems design, division of labor, and management by objectives to the educational tasks of course development, instruction,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Distance Education
Peer reviewedKubala, Tom – Visions: The Journal of Applied Research for the Florida Association of Community Colleges, 1998
Discusses Internet graduate teaching experiences at the University of Central Florida and explores the pros and cons of online instruction. Describes Internet courses as asynchronous, allowing students to participate at any time and place. States that faculty must be excellent teachers, able to translate their styles into effective,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education
Brown, Stephen C., Ed. – 1997
This book contains 14 case studies, written by those involved in the teaching and training initiatives, that illustrate the use of open and distance learning strategies. The case studies, drawn from many parts of the world (but mostly British based), feature efforts in large and small companies in a variety of industries. The first part of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication
Granholm, Gunnar W., Ed. – 1976
This book contains four sections of supplementary papers contributed to the tenth international conference of the International Council on Correspondence Education (ICCE); the minutes of the ICCE business section; four chapters dealing with the main conference sub-themes; general conference and ICCE information; and the present ICCE constitution.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conference Reports
Kaye, A. R. – 1978
A brief description of Pakistan (physical setting, population, economy, government, communications, and rural development program) and its educational system introduce a description of the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) in Islamabad. AIOU was established by the Pakistani government primarily to provide adult and continuing education through…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Ancillary Services, College Administration
Ljosa, Erling, Ed. – 1975
This report contains forty papers presented at the tenth international conference of the International Council on Correspondence Education. The conference theme is described as one analyzing educational and administrative sub-systems and components, with reference to their purposes, significance, characteristics, interrelationship, and cost…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conference Reports
