Higher Education Through Open and Distance Learning

This book summarises the current status of both open and dual mode institutions and reviews developments that have taken place over the last twenty years.

Keith Harry was until recently Director of the International Centre for Distance Learning at the Open University, and is now a freelance adviser.

1 Open and distance learning for the new society PART 1 Themes 2 The internationalisation of higher education 3 The impact of telecommunications 4 Professional reflective practice and lifelong learning 5 Flexible learning and university change 6 The costs of distance education 7 Africa 8 America 9 Asia 10 Europe 11 Oceania Afterword: Open learning and/or distance education: which one for what purpose?