Mega-universities and Knowledge Media

Mega-universities and Knowledge Media
Author: John Daniel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136354433

A discussion of how the knowledge media can contribute to the renewal of universities, particularly through the development of distance education. It looks at universities which have risen to the challenges of cost and accessibility using technology.

ERIC

ERIC
Author: James Wilson Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1975
Genre: Abstracting and indexing services
ISBN:

Textbook on the use of the information dissemination services of the educational resources information centre (eric) in the USA - describes manual and computerised information retrieval methodologys, etc. References.

Computer Assisted Learning

Computer Assisted Learning
Author: M.R. Kibby
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2014-05-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483298728

This volume contains a selection of the best papers from the Computer Assisted Learning '91 Symposium. It includes research on a wide range of topics related to computers and learning with an emphasis on hard research evidence and innovative explorations.

The Open University

The Open University
Author: Daniel Weinbren
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2015-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1526101459

This historical perspective on The Open University, founded in 1969, frames its ethos (to be open to people, places, methods and ideas) within the traditions of correspondence courses, commercial television, adult education, the post-war social democratic settlement and the Cold War. A critical assessment of its engagement with teaching, assessment and support for adult learners offers an understanding as to how it came to dominate the market for part-time studies. It also indicates how, as the funding and status of higher education shifted, it became a loved brand and a model for universities around the world. Drawing on previously ignored or unavailable records, personal testimony and recently digitised broadcast teaching materials, it recognises the importance of students to the maintenance of the university and places the development of learning and the uses of technology for education over the course of half a century within a wider social and economic perspective.