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Technology:
Problems and Potentials
p. A. Danaher
But our commitment to open learning is our further support for spreading the
ability to expand opportunity in higher education as well as bringing much
more flexibility to enable those people who cannot physically visit a
campusfor whatever reasonto nevertheless gain learning and higher
education, including the qualifications that go with that.
...So we have seen very significant success to date in open learning. The
government and the institutions are meeting the challenge in terms of both
learning opportunities and skill formation.'
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Category
Examples of Technologies
Textbooks
Study guides
Workbooks
Course syllabi
Case studies
Audio
Telephones
Radio broadcasts
Audio conferencing (a teacher communicating with classes of students
via the telephone, radio channels, or satellite)
Audiographics (combining voice communication with image or data
transmission, by using facsimile machines, electronic whiteboards, or computers)
Video
Preproduced videos
Televised instruction
Interactive video (video integrated with a computer)
Video conferencing (two-way exchange of moving images)
Computer
Interactive
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Endnotes
l.Hansard, 1994, p. 911.
2. See for example D. P. Bosvvorth, Open
Learning (Cassell, London, 1991), p. 1; and
Roy W ebberley and Ian Haffenden, "Skills
Training and Responsh'e Management"
in Mar) Thorpe and Da\id Grugeon (eds.).
Open Learning for Adults (Longman,
Harlow, 1987), p. 137.
3. Richard Johnson, Open Learning: Policy
and Practice (Commissioned Report No. 4)
(National Board of Employment, Education, and Training, Canberra, 1990), p. 4.
4. Concise summaries of educational
technologies are provided by P. Bacsich,
A. Ka\ e, and P. Lefrere,"\ew Information
Technologies for Education and Training A Brief Survey", Oxford Surveys in
Information Technology/, Vol. 3, 1986, pp.
271-318; and by A. VV."Bates,' Technolog}'
for Distance Education: A 10-year
Prospective" in Alan Tait (ed.). Key Issues
m Open Learning: An Anthology from the
Journal Open Learning 1986-1992 (Longman,
Harlow, 1992), pp. 241-265.
5. B. D. Willis (ed.). Distance Education:
Strategies and Tools
(Educational Technology Publications,
Englewood Cliffs, 1994).'
6. R. Boggs and D. Jones, Cyberspace: The
Neu' Educational Froiitier, unpublished
paper, 1994.
7. Bruce Keepes, "The T\' Open Learning
Project; The First Year and Beyond" in Ted
Kunan (ed.). Distance Education Futures
(Australian and South Pacific External
Studies Association, Adelaide, 1993), pp.
180-189.
8. D. Horner and 1. Ree\ e, Telecottages: The
Potential for Rural Australia (Australian
Go\emmentPublishingSer\ice, Canberra,
1991).
9. Steven Hodas, "Technology Refusal and
the Organizational Culture of Schools",
Education Policy Analysis Archives, Vol. 1,
No. 10, 14 September 1993, pp. 1-28.
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Then there's the 'thatch' you may think this quite curious.
But hair is just as critical as teeth;
The head-wool should be genuine, not spurious.
No matter what deceptions lurk beneath.
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