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The University of Melbourne. Carr-Chellman examines the impact of online distance education throughout the world in an effort to understand more deeply the merits of such initiatives. Written from a critical perspective, the book sheds light on some of the problems faced by international distance educators. It particularly focuses on who benefits, and who does not, by the advance of international e-learning and how we can respond to the needs of the disenfranchised.
This book is intended to supplement what has to this point been largely a positive, how-to literature in distance education.
It offers a balanced perspective on the problems and possibilities of distance education worldwide. An Analysis of China Taiwan and India. The book presents a collection of papers from international case studies and its divided into five main parts based on geographic location, and each of them brings case studies of online education on e-learning and discusses the rhetoric that surrounds this form of teaching and learning from Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and Africa.
The first part of the book examines online education in Asia: Analysis of China , Taiwan , and India. The China chapter explains that the Dianda system there is one of the world's largest education systems, combining radio-television university system.
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The author examines the political rhetoric and discusses the impacts on the way China adopts the new online learning technologies. The Taiwan chapter examines the digital gap, internet usage, and the government and IT industries roles to development of e-learning in Taiwan. The India chapter begins with distance education through correspondence courses that has been with us since the s.
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The author examines the state of traditional and distance education in India , and identifies the viability and importance of online education given the current social, economic, and infrastructural status que. The second part of the book is on online education in Europe: Ireland chapter focuses on the potential and promise of information and communication technologies ICTs in the context of online education and differential participation in the Republic of Ireland in the information age. The author emphasizes the importance of Ireland 's national strategy on ICTs and its impacts on innovative and social practice discourse.
After examining the e-learning in the United Kingdom the author discusses overcoming social exclusion and financial benefits of distance learning. In addition to social exclusion topic, access and retention are presented two related topics of e-learning in the section five. This chapter critiques an educational response that matches the global reach of the transnational corporations.
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The author examines the aim of International Study Circles' ISCs that facilitates a global educational programme on issues concerning globalization for international worker's education. The Turkish chapter introduces the distance education programs in Turkey, the author analyses Turkey's distance education within the context of social problems on globalization by examining Anadolu University which is the biggest distance education provider in the country.
The third part of the book is on online education in North America: Analysis of the U.