Teacher Education Through Open and Distance Learning: World Review of Distance Education and Open Learning Volume 3

Open and distance learning has the potential to help achieve the target of education for all by 2015. This book describes and analyses the ways in which these methods and technologies are used for initial teacher training and continuing professional development, training principals and school managers and those who provide non-formal adult and community education. It also provides a valuable discussion of the policy-making, management, technology, costing, evaluation and quality assurance aspects of this work.