| Description |
1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
ICT in adult education : defining the territory / Neil Selwyn -- Adult learning and ICT : how to respond to the diversity of needs / Beatriz Pont and Richard Sweet -- Connections between in-school and out-of-school ICT programmes for youth / Anthony Wilhelm -- Reaching the most disadvantaged with ICT : what works? / Robert Kozma and Daniel A. Wagner -- Lessons on the uses of ICT for out-of-school youth and adults in developing countries / Bob Day and Rod Grewan -- ICT in non-formal and adult education : reflections on the roundtable / Stephen McNair |
| Summary |
"This publication reveals a number of interesting examples of innovative programs using ICT that can increase access to learning out-of-school youths and adults. The papers show that ICT can be one way -- but by no means the only way -- to improve pathways to learning. It can do this by tailoring learning to the needs and preferred learning styles of the disadvantaged, and it can make learning more interesting by providing immediate feedback. A third message is that just as adult learning itself has been the under-funded and under-appreciated Cinderella of the formal learning spectrum, so the application of ICT within adult learning has tended to lag behind much of the rest of the education system. The present volume provides some cautionary remarks on the recent past and opens up some significant opportunities for the future"--Publisher summary |
| Notes |
"Education and training policy." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Adult education -- Developing countries.
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Adult education -- OECD countries.
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Educational technology -- Developing countries.
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Educational technology -- OECD countries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9264012281 (electronic bk.) |
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9789264012288 (electronic bk.) |
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