strategy
Developing new distance education
Synonyms:
Improving distance educationEncouraging electronic distance learning
Description:
Developing affordable and accessible global electronic distance education across national boundaries.
Context:
Distance education is one of the major uses of internet multimedia telecommunications. For distance education, priorities are: a) voice, b) content (i.e. text, image/photo, animation, application program/simulation model, web), and c) video, in that order.
Implementation:
The current challenge, as perceived in 1998, is to combine the various modalities for distance education, notably to serve less developed countries and similarly underserved regions which are without good analog voice-grade telephone networks, and hence without Internet access. This will require demonstration of previously unexplored hybrid configurations of various electronic distance education course delivery technologies. Part of this implementation will be to educate the participants, perhaps by offering them a stage for meeting at a distance and gaining confidence in using novel means of communication—an opportunity for hands-on "collaborative experiential learning" about the technologies and their applications.
Broader:
Innovating in educationEducating by correspondenceDeveloping electronic interactive learning Narrower:
Developing multimedia training systems Facilitated by:
Promoting interactive communications Organizations:
International Council for Open and Distance Education International Federation for Information Processing Interactive Multimedia and Collaborative Communications Alliance Latin American Network for Development in Distance Education West African Distance Education Association African Association for Distance Education Pacific Islands Regional Association for Distance Education Distance Education Association of Southern Africa Ibero-American Association for Open University Education Inter-American Distance Education Consortium European Distance and E-Learning Network Globewide Network Academy Asia Pacific Distance and Multimedia Education Network Commonwealth Asia-Pacific Distance Education Network Institute for Training in Distance Education References:
Dillon, Connie L and Cintron, Rosa: Building a Working Policy for Distance EducationEvans, Terry and Nation, Daryl: Opening Education: policies and practices from open and distance education Subjects:
Education → Distance educationTechnology → Electronics
Development → Development
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
