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Stevens, Ken – Education in Rural Australia, 2010
Schools have always been central to rural communities, but today they are critical to the sustainability of social and economic life for people who live beyond major centres of population. The development of virtual structures and processes that enhance classes in and between rural schools has provided extended educational and, indirectly,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Small Schools, Rural Schools, Rural Areas
Stevens, Ken; Mulcahy, Dennis – 1997
The TeleLearning and Rural Education Centre was established in January 1997 at Memorial University of Newfoundland, in one of the most sparsely populated and economically depressed areas of Canada. Of 462 schools in Newfoundland and Labrador, 66 percent are rural and over half have enrollments of under 200 students. The Centre was established to…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Distance Education, Educational Policy, Educational Research