E-Learning [electronic resource] : The Partnership Challenge
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
Innovation, Centre for Educational Research and.
 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2001.
 Are the new information and communication technologies transforming education and learning in OECD countries? There is certainly an upsurge in investigations and inquiries into e-learning by all kinds of parties and interest groups -- governmental, professional, commercial -- and from education communities. The universal « mega-trends » associated with globalisation mean that partnership in providing e-learning material is needed to manage cost and complexity in the face of competition that may come from any part of the world. This raises important questions about the public interest and the 
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""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. ICT Trends and Opportunities for E-learning""; ""The Internet comes of age""; ""Figure 1. Average PC installed base per 100 inhabitants and share in the home and education in t...""; ""Figure 2. Hours per week spend on various media among Internet users in the US""; ""The next generation of ICT""; ""Figure 3. Growth in broadband Internet access in US households""; ""The impact of the Internet on different sectors of the economy""; ""Figure 4. Internet media development over time""; ""Table 1. Industries embracing the Net economy""
""Figure 5. Expected percentage of revenues moving online by 2002""""Investment in ICT in education""; ""Figure 6. Home and school access to computers in OECD countries, 1998""; ""What is the potential impact of educational technology?""; ""Box 1. How ICT can be used to deliver benefits""; ""From carrier to content: the innovative sequence""; ""Key issues""; ""Chapter 2. The Market for E-learning""; ""Markets and lifelong learning""; ""Drivers of change in the education and training industry""; ""Table 2. Possible impact of consolidation on the education and training industry""
""Table 3. Possible outsourcing: impact of privatisation on the education and training industry""""Clienteles and markets""; ""The emerging value Web""; ""Figure 7. The new emerging value web""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 3. E-learning, Partnership and School Education""; ""Prospects for e-learning developments and markets at K-12""; ""Table 4. Synthesis of market development factors""; ""The United States""; ""Table 5. Two paths to improving schools""; ""The European Union""; ""The United Kingdom""; ""Box 2. Managed services in a nutshell""; ""Other examples""
""Chapter 4. E-learning and Partnerships in Higher Education""""Main clienteles or markets""; ""Different partners and contributors""; ""Development of e-learning and higher education""; ""Some policy issues and problems""; ""Chapter 5. The Nature of Partnership and its Place in E learning""; ""Introduction""; ""Different modes and models of partnership""; ""Box 3. Various dimensions of partnerships in e-learning""; ""Categorisations of partnerships in e-learning""; ""The drivers of partnership""; ""Table 6. Key drivers for partnership""; ""Box 4. Costs and benefits of partnerships""
""Managing partnerships""""Figure 8. Public-private parterships: to partner? Or how to partner? A decision cycle""; ""Chapter 6. Between Complacency and Cyberbole Striking a Balance""; ""References""
 Are the new information and communication technologies transforming education and learning in OECD countries? There is certainly an upsurge in investigations and inquiries into e-learning by all kinds of parties and interest groups -- governmental, professional, commercial -- and from education communities. The universal « mega-trends » associated with globalisation mean that partnership in providing e-learning material is needed to manage cost and complexity in the face of competition that may come from any part of the world. This raises important questions about the public interest and the 
Computer-assisted instruction.
Distance education.
Internet in education.
Public-private sector cooperation.