This book is the first comprehensive account of developments in open and distance non-formal education in developing countries for over more than 20 years. It includes many instructive and inspiring examples of how international agencies such as UNESCO, FAO, WHO, UNICEF, USAID and the Commonwealth of Learning and national providers are using…

The Third World countries of Botswana and Tanzania have used Radio Learning Group (RLG) campaigns effectively to get a limited amount of important information to a very large group of people at the same time. During campaigns voluntary participants organized in groups of 5-20 meet twice a week for about 5 weeks to listen to radio broadcasts about…

The 1986 volume of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) newsletter includes articles on computer-assisted language learning; writing instruction; international teaching of English as a second language (ESL); computer software and courseware; learners' rights; Islam in the ESL classroom; English for international teaching…