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Rethinking Learner Support in Distance Education: Change and Continuity in an International Context.reviewed by Jennifer McLean - 2004 Title: Rethinking Learner Support in Distance Education: Change and Continuity in an International Context. Author(s): Alan Tait & Roger Mills (Editors) Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 0415301440 , Pages: 224, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com Alan Tait has written extensively on the role of learner support
in scaffolding student success in open and distance learning.
As a senior lecturer and Sub Dean in the Faculty of Education and
Language Studies at the Open University, Tait has a range of
experience as both a member faculty and an administrator and knows
well that the challenge of implementing true learner support is a
far greater challenge than pontificating about it. Similarly,
Roger Mills has been a long time champion of learner support in
open and distance education environments.
Following Tait and Mill’s 1999 book, The Convergence of
Distance and Conventional Education: Patterns of Flexibility for
the Individual Learner, this new text in the Routledge/Falmer
Studies in Distance Education Series examines those elements that
contribute to student success both in and outside the
classroom. Rethinking Learner Support in Distance
Education is a compilation of 16 essays, position papers, and
case studies collected from practitioners and scholars from around
the world including the UK, USA, Japan,... (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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- Jennifer McLean
Pennsylvania College of Technology E-mail Author JENNIFER McLEAN is the Director of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning at the Pennsylvania College of Technology.
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