Perspectives on Distance Education : Open Schooling for the 21 century

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Edited by Dominique A.M.X Abrioux and Frances Ferreira

"Open Schools for the 21st Century" shows how open schooling can be adpoted for a range of purposes and in different ways, using a variety of technologies and approaches. With contributions from educators with extensive first-hand experience in open schooling, the book confirms that opens schools can provide good quality secondary education as long as senior policy-makers, bureaucrats, and administrators are well informed about the key factors affecting success in open schooling, and that they use this knowledge to plan implement, and monitor their own open shool initiatives