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- catalog abstract ""This book compares the emergence and development of autonomous, fully fledged distance teaching universities (DTUs) in five higher education systems: the UK, Germany, Spain, Canada and Israel. It examines the evolution and the functional roles of the DTUs as they faced and dealt with challenges such as open admission, unprepared students, part-time students, flexible curricula, innovative learning/teaching, modes, making use of advanced technologies, creating 'virtual classrooms', modularization and international cooperation - issues which appeared on the agenda of 'traditional', 'conventional' campus universities within a decade or two. It provides a synthesis of higher education literature and distance education literature, which are currently almost totally isolated and which rarely refer to one another. It examines the commonalities and divergences between the five DTUs - a timely observation, after two decades of operation, of the unique and variable national impacts on the nature and profile of each DTU, and ends with an analysis of the main lessons to be derived from past experiences of the DTUs as they might apply to the future planning of both conventional universities and providers of distance higher education."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11194923.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""This book compares the emergence and development of autonomous, fully fledged distance teaching universities (DTUs) in five higher education systems: the UK, Germany, Spain, Canada and Israel. It examines the evolution and the functional roles of the DTUs as they faced and dealt with challenges such as open admission, unprepared students, part-time students, flexible curricula, innovative learning/teaching, modes, making use of advanced technologies, creating 'virtual classrooms', modularization and international cooperation - issues which appeared on the agenda of 'traditional', 'conventional' campus universities within a decade or two. It provides a synthesis of higher education literature and distance education literature, which are currently almost totally isolated and which rarely refer to one another. It examines the commonalities and divergences between the five DTUs - a timely observation, after two decades of operation, of the unique and variable national impacts on the nature and profile of each DTU, and ends with an analysis of the main lessons to be derived from past experiences of the DTUs as they might apply to the future planning of both conventional universities and providers of distance higher education."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-281) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction to Issues in Higher Education -- 1. The Idea of a Distance Teaching University -- 2. Distance Teaching Universities in Their National Settings -- 3. Students and Academic Faculty -- 4. Academic Curricula -- 5. Technologies in the Service of Distance Teaching Universities -- 6. Governance, Funding and Organisation -- 7. Distance and Campus Universities: Scepticism, Collaboration and Competition -- 8. Lessons from the Past and Trends of the Future -- Annex I. Basic Guidelines for Initiating and Establishing a New Distance Teaching University.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 290 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "008043066X (hard)".
- catalog isPartOf "Issues in higher education (Oxford, England)".
- catalog isPartOf "Issues in higher education".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Published for the IAU Press [by] Pergamon,".
- catalog subject "378.1/75 21".
- catalog subject "Distance education Cross-cultural studies.".
- catalog subject "Education, Higher Cross-cultural studies.".
- catalog subject "LC5800 .G87 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction to Issues in Higher Education -- 1. The Idea of a Distance Teaching University -- 2. Distance Teaching Universities in Their National Settings -- 3. Students and Academic Faculty -- 4. Academic Curricula -- 5. Technologies in the Service of Distance Teaching Universities -- 6. Governance, Funding and Organisation -- 7. Distance and Campus Universities: Scepticism, Collaboration and Competition -- 8. Lessons from the Past and Trends of the Future -- Annex I. Basic Guidelines for Initiating and Establishing a New Distance Teaching University.".
- catalog title "Distance and campus universities : tensions and interactions : a comparative study of five countries / Sarah Guri-Rosenblit.".
- catalog type "Cross-cultural studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".