Distance Education in Rural China achieves Inter-School
Collaboration and Increased Access to Education
- Xiaoying FENG, Weiyuan ZHANG, Li CHEN
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This Paper reports the use of forty-five learning scaffold strategies in a network of thirty-six schools across China.
The collaborative network helps to provide access to school-children in rural regions by linking them together with school
children in developed cities. The teachers involved asserted that the templates and scaffold strategies were effective for learning.
The conclusions found that scaffolds should be used throughout the courses to promote collaborative learning among school children.
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Schools, Collaboration, Rural regions, Development, Access, China
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Radio, Television and the Internet providing the Right to Education in India - Sriram Arulchelvan and D. Viswanathan
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Sriram Arulchelvan and D. Viswanathan |
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This Paper reports the various projects in India that use radio, television and / or the Internet in the past 20 years. These projects have been internationally recognized as educationally effective. Interesting and useful findings include that urban students use radio and use television more than rural students (due to language perhaps), and that campus-based local radio, television, and Internet should be more widely adopted. Accessibility, distance mode versus face-to-face mode, gender, urban versus rural, and age were all variables covered in this major study.
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radio, television, internet, projects, demographics, india
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The impact of technology on accessibility and pedagogy : the right to education in Sub-Saharan Africa - Dele BRAIMOH, & Jonathan Ohiorenuan OSIKI
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Dele BRAIMOH, & Jonathan Ohiorenuan OSIKI |
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This Paper reports the background of open and distance learning in Africa from its initial early stages to the present. The authors then highlight the achievements and the problems faced in Africa, and most importantly set out a road map for governments and other agencies in order to develop open and distance learning to achieve the Right to Education and the millennium goals for Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors include an interest discussion on labour mobility as it affects education.
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open and distance learning, developing countries, barriers, labour mobility, road map, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Perspectives and Strategies towards Collaboration in Higher Education in the GCC Arab States of the Gulf - Siran MUKERJI and Nader K. JAMMEL
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Siran MUKERJI and Nader K. JAMMEL |
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This Paper reviews the higher education systems in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Arab countries, and reports the very high literacy rates in the populations, while indicating they are increasing the number of universities significantly in recent years. As a result they assert the proportion of women studying and graduating now from GCC universities are matching and surpassing the numbers for men.
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Arabian countries, Literacy, Building new universities, Collaboration, Women
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Development of equal opportunities to education using ICT in China : Overview of the nationwide project 'Modern Distance Education for Schools in the Rural Areas of China' - Li CHEN and Meiling CHEN
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Li CHEN and Meiling CHEN |
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This Paper reports on the largest project in the world, which aims to reduce the gap in education quality between the urban areas and the rural areas in China - by sharing digital resources through ICT. This Paper gives an overview together with discussion of the challenges and some suggestions. The Paper shares some valuable information on how distance education can be used to enhance educational access and equity at low cost in developing countries.
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Large-scale, Access, Equity, Challenges, Suggestions
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The Right to Education : A model for making higher education equally accessible to all on the basis of merit - Sir John DANIEL, Asha KANWAR and Stamenka UVALIĆ-TRUMBIĆ
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Sir John DANIEL, Asha KANWAR and Stamenka UVALIĆ-TRUMBIĆ |
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This Paper reviews past models used for higher education, and with the current technology recommends a new model based on individualization of courses and utilizing global open educational resources - to provide access to all, as well as providing accredited quality, and at low cost. The proposed model centres on examinations and allows students to choose different ways of preparing for them.
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Model, Quality, Access, Low cost, Global open resources, Individualization
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Extending Open Distance Learning into Rural North-Eastern India - Sunil KUMAR, Neelam CHAUDHARY and Girija SHANKAR
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Sunil KUMAR, Neelam CHAUDHARY and Girija SHANKAR |
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This paper describes the experiences of Indira Gandhi National Open University in extending its services into the North East Region of India. This region is considerably isolated with great challenges including continuous insurgencies. Solutions include using local languages, at least one full-time national employee at each study centre, and provide education to the national army there with shared access for the local people.
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Least-developed region, Solutions, Local languages, Trust, Access
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