Routledge Distance Teaching For Higher and Adult Education (Routledge Library Editions: Adult Education)

Product Description Originally published in 1981 this volume provides a detailed analysis of the factors - strategic, pedagogic, operational, organisational and financial -which should be taken into account in the planning and running of large-scale, centralised distance education systems at the higher education level. The book uses evidence drawn from Open University type institutions in Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and the UK. Review 'A major contribution to the literature on distance education.' Distance Education 'A siginificant contribution to an understanding of the delivery of instructional services to adults in dispersed locations.' Educational Communication and Technology 'An academic or administrator contemplating a move into...distance teaching should first read this book.' Higher Education