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Evolution and Revolution of Adult Learning: Exposition of Open and Distance Learning in Nigeria
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Umezulike, Nneka A. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2015
The educational system has witnessed a number of laudable programs since inception in both formal and non-formal systems of education programs that were set up to empower adult educational skills, knowledge, decision-making processes.Correspondence education transformed into distance education which--with the advent of information and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Distance Education, College Programs
The Open University of the Netherlands: "Serving the Adult Learner" by Distance Education and "Innovating Higher Education."
van Enckevort, G.; Leibbrandt, G. J. – 1987
The Dutch Open University accepted its first students in September 1984 after a two-year preparation period. Like its British counterpart, the Dutch Open University offers free access and has no requirements as far as previous education is concerned. Its principal aims are to (1) provide higher education for adults either as a second chance (for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Distance Education, Educational Media
Learning from China. The 1987 Educational Research Study Tour to the Peoples Republic of China: June 12 to July 4, 1987. Educational Research Unit Special Paper #4.
Knox, David, Ed.; Weeks, Sheldon, Ed. – 1987
This collection, which is a product of a 23-day study tour of China, focuses on educational research and changing educational objectives and practices against the background of the changes that have occurred in the country since the Cultural Revolution of 1976. Sheldon Weeks' introduction to the collection explains how the study tour came about,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Distance Education, Educational Change, Educational Objectives