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On Paper, on Air, on Screen: "Teledidactics" and Education at the Margins, 1920-1950
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Symes, Colin – Critical Studies in Education, 2010
In this paper, I examine the provenance of distance education or "teledidactics" in Australia. I take as my case studies the New South Wales Correspondence School and the School of the Air and suggest that their emergence was underpinned by a desire on the part of educational and broadcasting bureaucrats to increase the equity of school…
Descriptors: Correspondence Schools, Distance Education, Educational Television, Equal Education
62. The Return of Educational Radio?
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Berman, Sally D. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2008
This paper examines one of the traditional technologies of distance education, radio, and presents examples of educational and community radio usage in Asia and Africa. Instead of merely transposing western approaches to distance education in developing countries, it is suggested that the developed world can learn from uses of radio in developing…
Descriptors: Educational Radio, Media Selection, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Integrating Mobile Learning into Nomadic Education Programmes in Nigeria: Issues and Perspectives
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Aderinoye, R. A.; Ojokheta, K. O.; Olojede, A. A. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2007
The establishment of the Nigerian National Commission for Nomadic Education in 1989 created wider opportunities for an estimated 9.3 million nomads living in Nigeria to acquire literacy skills. This commission was struck to address low literacy rates among pastoral nomads and migrant fishermen, which put literacy rates at 0.28 percent and 20…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Children, Foreign Countries, Literacy