Distance teaching for higher and adult education. / edited by Anthony Kaye and Greville Rumble - Great Britain: Open University Press, c1981. - 342p.: ill, 22cm.

Includes index.

Contents: Characteristics of distance-learning systems: Origins and structures -- Students and courses -- Media, materials and learning methods -- The Course subsystem: Activity scheduling -- Production and distribution -- Course creation -- The Student subsystem: Systems for student administration -- Support for student learning -- Assessment in the distance-education situation -- Organisation, administration, planning and finance: Organisation and decision-making -- Planning, control and evaluation -- Economics and cost structures -- Budgetary and resource forecasting -- Pointers to further reading: Some concluding comments -- Institutional profiles.

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Correspondence schools and courses.

LC5915.D57