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Collaboration in Distance Education International Case Studies
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Routledge
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Routledge
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As inter-institutional collaboration has become a key policy issue in distance and higher education, strategic alliances for course development, teaching and credit transfer have become a central feature of institutional culture and policy-making. Distance educators are leading higher education around the world in overcoming the many problems involved in collaboration to forge exciting new... Read more
List of Contributors, Foreword by Anastasios Christodoulou, Preface, List of abbreviations, 1 Collaboration in distance education: an introduction, 2 Institutional cultures and their impact: ‘laddered’ studies in health sciences in British Columbia, 3 Constructing a Master of Distance Education programme: an Australian collaboration in programme development and teaching, 4 Creating self-learning materials for of f-campus studies: a Malaysian-Australian-Canadian training project, 5 The way of the future? Transfer credit and credit banking, 6 The Toowoomba Accord: a blueprint for collaborative external studies, 7 The rise and fall of a consortium: the story of the University of Mid-America, 8 The Contact North project: collaborative project management in Ontario, 9 Policies and trends in inter-institutional collaboration, References, Index
Biography
Louise Moran, Ian Mugridge
`Technology for learning, supported by tutoring and counselling, those are the themes of the book. Covering five continents, it all makes good reading, ...' - Times Educational Supplement
