Distance Teaching For Higher and Adult Education

Anthony (Tony) Kaye, Greville Rumble

'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

• Part 1: Characteristics of Distance-learning Systems 1. Origins and Structures 2. Students and Courses 3. Media, Materials and Learning Methods Part 2: The Course subsystem 4. Activity Scheduling 5. Production and Distribution 6. Course Creation Part 3: The Student Subsystem 7. Systems for Student Administration 8. Support for Student Learning 9. Assessment in the Distance-Education Situation Part 4: Organisation, Administration, Planning and Finance 10. Organisation and Decision-making 11. Planning, Control and Evaluation 12. Economics and Cost-Structures 13. Budgetary and Resource Forecasting Part 5: Pointers to Further Reading 14. Some Concluding Comments 15. Institutional Profiles