TY - BOOK AU - Kaye, Anthony AU - Rumble, Greville TI - Distance teaching for higher and adult education.: edited by SN - 0709904681 AV - LC5915.D57 PY - 1981/// CY - Great Britain PB - Open University Press KW - Correspondence schools and courses. N1 - 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 ER -