| The
Policy and Programs domain provides information about issues
at national, international, and institutional levels. It
also contains information specific to such program areas
as higher education, community education, teacher in-service
training, professional continuing education, military training,
vocational education and children's education. It deals
with such issues as those arising from the policy decision
to establish a distance education system in the first place.
Different
policy considerations come into play in dealing with competing
educational interests within a country or within an institution.
National policies focus on resource management, particularly
setting up procedures for rationalizing the use of technologies
as a distance education resource. A perennial concern
focuses on quality of programs and is manifested in policies
regarding regulation, monitoring and accrediting of distance
education delivery systems.
Within
distance teaching institutions there is a similar range
of policy issues, including questions of balancing the
resources allocated for distance education against those
of conventional provision, and the different roles of
teaching faculty. One of the most sensitive policy issues
of the present day concerns the role of distance teaching
institutions in teaching in foreign countries, and the
response of national educational authorities to this encroachment.
More
resources:
Chan,
F. T. and Mills, J. J. 2000. "Collaboration
for Success in Open and Distanc Education: A Case Study
of Australia and Hong Kong". International Distance
Education and Open Learning Conference.
Chung,
H. 1999. "Contemporary
distance education in Taiwan," In Keith Harry
(ed.) Higher Education through Open and Distance Learning:
World Review of Distance Education and Open Learning,
London: Routledge and COL.
Ding,
X. 1999. "Distance
education in China," In Keith Harry (ed.) Higher
Education through Open and Distance Learning: World Review
of Distance Education and Open Learning, London: Routledge
and COL.
Jung,
I. July 2001, Issues and
challenges of providing online inservice teacher training:
Korea's experience, International Review of Research
in Open and Distance Learning: 2, 1. pp. 4-11.
Kawai,
A. 2002. "The role of
radio programmes in Japanese post-war agricultural and
rural development: A lesson for vocational education and
training". Paper presented at the 15th Annual
Conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities,
New Delhi, India, February 21-23, 2002.
Kim,
Jun Hyung. 2000. Korea's
Policy Strategies for Promoting Public-Private Partnerships
in Cyber Education. presented in the conference of
APEC International Roundtable Nov. 30 -- Dec 1, 2000.
Lin,
Fuhua (Oscar) 2001. A Critique
of Stephen Downes' Article, ``Learning Objects'': A Chinese
Perspective. International Review of Research in Open
and Distance Learning. July 2001. v2.1.
Wong,
S. & Yoshida, A. 2001. "Japan."
In Olugbemiro Jegede and Glenn Shive (eds.), Open and
Distance Education in the Asia Pacific Region, Hong Kong:
Open University of Hong Kong Press, pp.80-102.
Jakupec,
Viktor 2000. "Strategic
Plans for Foundation of APEC Cyber Education Network:
Introducing a concept of Knowledge Economy",
presented APEC International Roundtable Nov. 30~Dec.1,
2000
Latchem,
Colin and Xinzheng, Lu 1999. "China's
Higher Education Examinations for Self-Taught Learners".
Open Learning, Nov99, Vol. 14
Issue 3, p3, 11p.
Cheng,
Liying 2000. "Distance
Language Teacher Education: new challenges for Hong Kong".
Open Learning, Feb2000, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p5, 12p.
Jung,
Insung 2000. "Technology
Innovations and the Development of Distance Education:
Korean experience". Open Learning, Nov2000, Vol.
15 Issue 3.
Liang,
Xiaoqing 2000. "TV Chinese
Teaching Programs for Students Overseas". presented
in International Distance Education and Open Learning
Conference 2000.
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