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Open and distance learning has the potential to help achieve the target of education for all by 2015. This book describes and analyses the ways in which these methods and technologies are used for initial teacher training and continuing professional development, training principals and school managers and those who provide non-formal adult and community education. It also provides a valuable discussion of the policy-making, management, technology, costing, evaluation and quality assurance aspects of this work.
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This book examines the case for using infomation technologies and open and distance learning to train our teachers and give us more and better teachers. Given are practical new ways of building and strengthening the world's largest profession.
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'This book is both an excellent introduction to distance learning and a rich resource for those in that field as well as for those in the fields of teacher education and online learning. Teacher Education Through Open and Distance Learning offers a comprehensive, international view of teacher training in a global context ... I highly recommend this book for those involved in pre-service teacher preparation as well as online educators.' - International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning
