International Handbook of Distance Education

by Terry Evans

Distance education is arguably one of the major developments in education during the 20th Century. From schooling through to university education, distance education blossomed to facilitate frontier expansion in the New World, capacity-building in developing nations, access and equity provision in post-War societies and flexible professional development and workplace training for late-modernity. "The International Handbook of Distance Education" explores...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080447171
• ISBN13: 9780080447179
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
• Length: 796 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"