Home Study Student Services Handbook, eds. This handbook includes ten essays on the skills required of professionals responsible for education by correspondence. Collectively these essays cover the major aspects of providing instructional and administrative services to distant students. Key Issues in Open Learning, ed. In the introduction, Alan Tait establishes the context with a discussion of key issues for distance educators in this decade.
Contributors represent organizations and institutions in Britain, Canada, Australia, and Norway.
This booklet is the forty-third in the Fundamentals of Educational Planning series. Examining the management of distance education from a variety of perspectives, it is intended for use by those engaged in educational planning in developed and developing countries and for others who need a general understanding of how educational planning relates to national development. The author begins with definitions of management and distance learning, provides an overview of the planner's perspective, and progresses to a discussion of the issues of strategic planning, organization and control, budgeting and financial control, and outcomes. Houdek writes as one practitioner to other practitioners about each of these steps. Her advice is based on her own extensive experience as Instructional Materials Editor of the Independent Study Program at Ohio University and on comparisons she has made between her own program and independent learning programs at other large universities.