Issues in Distance Education. Resource Paper.

Autor/in	Sharma, Motilal
Titel	Issues in Distance Education. Resource Paper.
Quelle	(1986), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Developing Nations; Development; Disadvantaged; Distance Education; Educational Development; Educational Needs; Educational Technology; Educational Trends; Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries; Labor Force Development; Nonformal Education; Postsecondary Education; Telecommunications; Asia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Entwicklung; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Bildungsentwicklung; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Unterrichtsmedien; Ausland; Arbeitskräftebestand; Non-formal education; Non formal education; Nichtformale Bildung; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Telekommunikationstechnik; Asien
Abstract	The role of education in development is discussed in this paper as one of a number of issues in education in developing countries, including recent changes in population and technology that render traditional methods of imparting instruction inadequate. The concept of distance education is presented with reference to specific applications in Asia and the Pacific, and involvement of the World Bank and of the Asian Development Bank in distance education are briefly described. Areas recommended for consideration by participants in the regional seminar on distance education at which this paper was presented are summarized as follows: (1) the future role of distance education in human resource development; (2) strategies for implementing this role in relation to overall socioeconomic goals of countries; (3) new models involving modern communication technologies for ensuring the success of strategies suggested; (4) strategies for ensuring quality of distance education programs while enlarging their scope to cover the disadvantaged groups of society; (5) appropriate methods of ensuring academic status to distance education while retaining its flexibility and relevance to techno-economic realities; (6) internal efficiency and external relevance of distance education; and (7) international cooperation and assistance in promoting distance education. (MES)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC