Desmond Keegan

This book is a major contribution to the fields of distance education research, the field of comparative education and to the history of Chinese and British education.The book undertakes an impossible task: the comparative study of China‘s Radio and TV universities and of the British Open University. The task is impossible because the two entities...

This book The impact of new technologies on distance learning students addresses a crucial dimension of educational provision: the expenditure on educational technology of the 27 Ministries of Education in the European Union and of Ministries of Education and Higher Education throughout the world, for their schools, colleges and universities. If it...

This bibliography comprises 75 annotated references to books and articles about distance education and e-learning research and practice. URLs are included in cases where online resources exist for individual entries. The selected literature was identified in different European language regions including English, German, Hungarian, and Italian. The...

This is a European Commission Leonardo da Vinci Reference Material project on the impact of new technology on distance learning students. It is known that all the Ministries of Education of the 27 European Union countries pay millions of Euros annually in the provision of educational technology for their schools, colleges and universities. A review...

The project Megatrends in e-learning published published the following four books. The first book, The Provision of e-learning in the European Union, presents data gathered from Norway and the 25 members of the European Union as an introductory overview of the provision of e-learning in Europe. The second book, Megaproviders of e-learning in Euro...

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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Data Collection 1.Distance education by correspondence schools (1965) 2.University-level distance education (1968) 3. Models of university-level education (1971) Part 2: Analysis 4.Didactic analysis (1972) 5.Distance education and industrial production: a comparative interpretation in outline (1967) 6.D...

The first of two papers in this publication is "Teaching by Satellite in a European Virtual Classroom" (Desmond Keegan). It describes the first accredited university course by satellite, a 1-year certificate course in safety and health at work offered by the University College Dublin. It discusses the enrollment of 219 students at 10 sites (the tar...

In their article “Mapping the Boundaries of Distance Education: Problems in Defining the Field, ‘ ‘ in the first issue of The American Journal of Distance Education, Garrison and Shale criticized Desmond Keegan's The Foundations of Distance Education (1986) as “too narrow a view of distance education.” In the conclusion of their article, they wrote...

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The Open University of the United Kingdom is acknowledged as one of the most successful distance education system yet designed. High among the reasons for its success is the student support service provided by the Regional Tutorial Services, a department of the Open University administrative structure which has received little acclaim. This paper s...

Four generally accepted definitions of distance education are analysed and from them six components of a comprehensive definition are chosen. The forms of education that are considered to fall within the concept of distance education as outlined are considered from the point of view of choice of medium, institutional type and didactic model. Variou...

This introduction to distance education includes the following sections: (1) definitions of distance education; (2) the typology of distance education systems (including examinations of the correspondence school model, the consultation model, the integrated mode, the multimedia system model and media selection; (3) nature (the didactic structure of...

The year 1979 marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Open University. During this period it has come to be recognized as one of the major innovations in higher education in recent years. The Open University set out to attempt to solve the problem of drop-outs which had been a source of criticism for other distance education institutions...

This study focuses on the satisfaction or lack of satisfaction of institutions with the LMSs they have purchased or developed themselves. In the areas under consideration the term Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is used more extensively than Learning Management System (LMS).

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Articles et résumés en français et en anglais. Incl. bibl.

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