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All-Africa Ministers' Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education 1 – 4 February 2004 Cape Town, South Africa DISTANCE EDUCATION: IS IT STILL RELEVANT IN 2004? Sir John Daniel Assistant Director-General for Education
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The King is dead Long live the King!
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Continuity Change
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The King is dead Long live the King!
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Doubts about DE 1) Changing Technology Changing Nomenclature
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WHAT’S IN A NAME? Virtual education Online learning Distributed education Flexible learning e-learning Open learning
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Doubts about DE 2) Use of DE techniques in the classroom
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Open LearningDistance Education All-Africa Ministers' Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education 1 – 4 February 2004 Cape Town, South Africa
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The International Council for Correspondence Education
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The International Council for Distance Education
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The International Council for Open and Distance Education
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open universities (purpose) distance education (practice)
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Distance education has achieved one of the rare revolutions in the history of education.
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COST ACCESS QUALITY The Eternal Triangle of Education
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COST ACCESSQUALITY
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Example OPEN UNIVERSITIES
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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) - one million students - one of the top ten Indian universities for teaching quality - low costs
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BRITAIN’S TOP NINE UNIVERSITIES Quality Rankings of Teaching based on all subject assessments 1995-2003 (Sunday Times University Guide 2003) 1CAMBRIDGE 96% 2LOUGHBOROUGH95% 3=LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS88% 3=YORK88% 5 THE OPEN UNIVERSITY87% 6 OXFORD86% 7 IMPERIAL COLLEGE82% 8 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON77% 9 ESSEX77%
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THE SECRET: deconstruct the educational process
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The Educational Process - Design - Plan - Implement - Evaluate
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The Educational Process - Design - Plan - Implement - Evaluate all done by the teacher
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The Educational Process - Design --- - Plan --- - Implement --- - Evaluate --- division of labour
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THE SECRET: deconstruct the learning process
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Two types of learning activities: INDEPENDENT
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Two types of learning activities: INDEPENDENT INTERACTIVE
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Balance: INDEPENDENT INTERACTIVE
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COST ACCESSQUALITY
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INDEPENDENT - listen to radio - multi-media
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INDEPENDENT = Economies of scale such as: - printing books - broadcasting TV - downloading software
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INDEPENDENT = QUALITY of scale such as: - printing books - broadcasting TV - downloading software
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Balance: INDEPENDENT INTERACTIVE
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= PEOPLE
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INTERACTIVE = PEOPLE (division of labour)
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CanINTERACTION occur throughINDEPENDENT media?
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APPLICATION TO AFRICA
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UNISA is an African MEGA-UNIVERSITY
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NIGERIAN OPEN U will be an African MEGA-UNIVERSITY
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INDEPENDENT media have falling costs - webcasting - broadcasting TV/radio - downloading software
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COL and UNESCO are encouraging the OPEN COURSEWARE movement
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African Virtual University Virtual University of Small States of the Commonwealth
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Teacher training/retraining = a vital application of DISTANCE EDUCATION for Africa
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Do not be traumatised by the digital divide!
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WANTED!! - clear thinking - good organisation - specialisation - division of labour - teamwork
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COST ACCESS QUALITY
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COST ACCESSQUALITY
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All-Africa Ministers' Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education DISTANCE EDUCATION IS VERY RELEVANT TO AFRICA IN 2004!
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