Why Distance Learning?: Higher Education Administrative Practices - Hardcover

Berg, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157356530X ISBN 13: 9781573565301

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

Why Distance Learning? explores explicit motivations, focusing on access and a belief in the pedagogical advantages of this approach to higher education. The survey reveals that top university and continuing education administrators are more than twice as likely to lead the implementation push than individual faculty. The study also found that the core of distance learning is administratively housed in self-supporting continuing education units, and that the majority of respondents pay full-time faculty under a regular load arrangement for these courses—with no additional stipend for course development. Controversial findings involving issues of intellectual property and the different attitudes of community colleges and doctoral degree-granting institutions toward distance learning are also covered.

About this title

About the Author

GARY A. BERG is Dean of Extended Education at California State University, Channel Islands, and author of numerous articles on current issues in higher education, educational technology, and media studies, as well as four books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157356530X
• ISBN 13: 9781573565301
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232