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The Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education: Patterns of Flexibility for the Individual Learnerreviewed by Robert V. Steiner - 2001 Title: The Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education: Patterns of Flexibility for the Individual Learner Author(s): Alan Tait and Roger Mills, eds Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 0415194288, Pages: 232, Year: 1999 Search for book at Amazon.com The Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education is
a volume of essays addressing the factors that continue to blur the
distinction between campus-based education and distance learning.
The range of convergences covered is impressive, including student
access, technology, cost, quality, student types, faculty support
and the demands of the marketplace. In targeting convergence, the
volume provides many useful insights into both the opportunities
and threats posed by the increasing prevalence of distance
education in particular and technology-mediated education in
general.
The editors of this book are Alan Tait, a staff tutor in the
School of Education at the Open University (UK), and Roger Mills,
the Director of the Open University in East Anglia. In their
opening essay to the volume (one of a series of distance education
monographs published by Routledge), Tait and Mills place their
theme in context, noting both the rapidity of convergence as well
as its breadth and depth. They describe governmental lifelong
learning policy initiatives, financial pressures, resource
constraints, the rise of learner-centered approaches,... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Robert Steiner
Teachers College, Columbia University E-mail Author Robert Steiner directs the Distance Learning Project at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he is responsible for the design, development, implementation and evaluation of the College's distance education offerings. He also serves as a member of the adjunct faculty of the Program in Science Education at Teachers College. A former principal investigator for the National Science Foundation, his research interests include distance learning, elementary particle physics and the use of computers in science education.
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