This book is a fairly comprehensive presentation of distance education, how it has
developed and what it is like in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It illuminates its …

This article reviews the discourse of mission in large distance teaching and open
universities, in order to analyse the theories of development and social justice that are …

After many years of work in distance education I am somewhat puzzled to find that at the
beginning of the twenty-first century there is on the one hand much talk about distance …

The book presents a comprehensive account of research and development activities in
open, ditance and flexible learning from acknowledged experts from around the world. The …

At a time of increasing globalisation, the concept of open and distance learning is being
constantly redefined. New technologies have opened up new ways of understanding and …

Learning Engineering for Online Education is a comprehensive overview of the emerging
field of learning engineering, a form of educational optimization driven by analytics, design …

This chapter reviews the range of factors both internal and external that makes imperative a
review of the ways in which learners are supported in the OU UK, and by extension more …

This paper discusses operationalization of open educational practices (OEP) using
innovative, Internet-influenced pedagogies to expose dangers of post-truth narratives. The …

The release of free resources by the education sector has led to reconsideration of how the
open approach implied by Open Educational Resources (OER) impacts on the educator and …

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the effects of changes in practice that have been
fuelled by the application of information and communication technology (ICT) both to …