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Cosford, R. H. – Adult Education (London), 1973
Evaluates Open University in Great Britain which has 40,000 students involved in correspondence courses. (DS)
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Open Education, Open Universities, Program Evaluation
Download full textLane, George, Ed. – 1974
This document reports the impressions of members of the Educational Leadership Seminar concerning education in Great Britain. Articles cover education in England (decisionmaking), the National Union of Teachers, community schools in England, the Schools Council for curriculum and examinations, the College of Further Education, the British…
Descriptors: Colleges, Curriculum, Decision Making, Essays
Hawkridge, David G. – 1971
The instructional system used by the Open University in Great Britain is discussed. This paper describes the system's characteristics and the major learning resources available to Open University students, and indicates how the course units in particular have been developed. The integration of these resources into an instructional system providing…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Resources, Open Education, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedCarver, Vida; Hales, G. W. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1974
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Media, Exceptional Child Education, Foreign Countries
PDF pending restorationHawkridge, David G., Comp. – 1975
After initial hostility and skepticism to Open Universities, the critical response became more favorable. From 1971 onwards there was a tremendous amount of writing about the Open University, not only in British journals and newspapers but also abroad. This bibliography incorporates over 130 entries dealing with the Open University in Great…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Educational Assessment, Educational Television, External Degree Programs
Percy, K. A.; Adams, J. G. – Adult Education (London), 1974
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Correspondence Study, Educational Television
Luckham, Bryan – New Universities Quarterly, 1979
Adult education should be a resource-kit, refreshment, retrainer, revitalizing agent upon which citizens may call. For some, it will have instrumental purposes for individual improvement like new jobs or social change through community action. University adult education has the role of influencing the realization of creative human potential. (MLW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Role, Higher Education, Individual Development
Clarke, Alan – 2002
Online learning covers a wide range of technologies and formal and informal learning methods. A key factor promoting the significant enthusiasm for online learning across all education and training sectors in Great Britain and elsewhere is its potential to overcome many of the barriers of place, pace, and time that socially and economically…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Education, Adult Education, Change Strategies
Field, John – 2000
This document explores the sudden increase in interest in lifelong learning among policymakers in Great Britain and elsewhere; existing patterns of participation in lifelong learning; the measures being developed to promote lifelong learning; and the prospects of achieving a viable learning society. The following are among the topics discussed in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes
