Cyberspace, distance learning, and higher education in developing countries : old and emergent issues of access, pedagogy, and knowledge production /

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Annotation Amidst the euphoria about the new frontiers of technology sometimes perceived as a panacea for expansion of higher education in developing countries, there is a need to analyze persistent and new grounds of unequal opportunity for access, learning, and the production of knowledge. This vo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Assié-Lumumba, N'Dri Thérèse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Colección:International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 94.
Temas:
Education, Higher > Computer-assisted instruction > Social aspects > Africa > Cross-cultural studies.
Distance education > Social aspects > Africa > Cross-cultural studies.
Internet in higher education > Social aspects > Africa > Cross-cultural studies.
Education, Higher > Social aspects > Africa > Cross-cultural studies.
Education, Higher > Cross-cultural studies.
Distance education > Cross-cultural studies.
Internet in higher education > Social aspects.
Internet in higher education > Cross-cultural studies.
Enseignement supérieur > Aspect social > Afrique > Études transculturelles.
Enseignement supérieur > Études transculturelles.
Enseignement à distance > Études transculturelles.
Internet dans l'enseignement supérieur > Aspect social.
Internet dans l'enseignement supérieur > Études transculturelles.
Enseignement supérieur > Enseignement assisté par ordinateur > Aspect social > Afrique > Études transculturelles.
Enseignement à distance > Aspect social > Afrique > Études transculturelles.
Internet dans l'enseignement supérieur > Aspect social > Afrique > Études transculturelles.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Internet in higher education
Education, Higher > Social aspects
Education, Higher
Distance education
Distance education > Social aspects
Hochschule
Hochschulbildung
E-Learning
Computerunterstützter Unterricht
Hoger onderwijs.
Afstandsonderwijs.
ICT.
EDUCATION.
HIGHER EDUCATION.
DISTANCE EDUCATION.
PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION.
SOCIAL ASPECTS.
AFRICA.
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
Africa
Entwicklungsländer
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Annotation Amidst the euphoria about the new frontiers of technology sometimes perceived as a panacea for expansion of higher education in developing countries, there is a need to analyze persistent and new grounds of unequal opportunity for access, learning, and the production of knowledge. This volume addresses fundamental questions about the educational process such as: 7 The use of technology in higher education for a holistic educational system for social development7 The actual technological capacity in Africa and possibilities for virtual higher education7 Cultural relevance of the curriculum and pedagogy7 Pedagogy and gender in cyberspace education7 Perils of externally-driven distance education programs in Africa and the quest for ownership towards development7 Challenges and opportunities in the making of knowledge society in an Asian context7 Strategies to promote constructive virtual higher education in Africa and Asia.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 253 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1429407131
9781429407137
9047404602
9789047404606
1280914734
9781280914737
9786610914739
6610914737
ISSN:0074-8684 ;

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