Developing Distance Education: Papers Submitted to the 14th World Conference in Oslo 9-16 August 1988These proceedings contain 10 keynote papers and more than 100 papers from an international conference on the theme of developing distance education. The keynote papers are: (1) "Communications Technology" (Yoshia Abe); (2) "Continuing Education. New Needs and Challenges for Distance Studies" (Urban Dahllof); (3) "Distance Education and National Development" (John S. Daniel); (4) "Distance Education--A Developing Concept" (Jack Foks); (5) "Organisational Autonomy and Coordination in Distance Education" (Patrick Guiton); (6) "Distance Teaching and Credit Transfer" (John Horlock); (7) "How to Develop a Correspondence Course" (Michael P. Lambert); (8) "If Student Services Are So Important, Then Why Are We Cutting Them Back?" (Ross Paul); (9) "Women in Distance Education" (Christine von Prummer, Gill Kirkup, and Barbara Spronk); (10) "Economics in Distance Education: Time for a Change of Direction?" (Greville Rumble). The conference papers represent distance education projects worldwide in elementary and secondary education, higher education, and vocational education. Issues include program administration; the production of instructional materials; the use of telecommunications media, including interactive television, communications satellites, and computer conferencing; program evaluation; teacher education applications; instructional design for cognitive skill development; and student attrition. References are provided in most of the papers. Appended are personal study contracts and related documents for administering distance learning in Tasmanian high schools. (GL) |
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