Sunday, May 18, 2008
International Distance Education Handbook
This huge collection of material from all over the world has finally made it to publication in the form of a superb hardback from Emerald Publishing. Its appearance is a testament to the organizational skill and endurance of the three editors -- Terry Evans and David Murphy from Australia and Margaret Haughey from Canada -- who have overcome no end of problems to get it done, including negotiating a new publisher halfway through. Collaborative work is hard at the best of times, as we know, but on this scale it must have been a nightmare, especially in trying to get some sort of uniformity of a basic kind.
I had the great honour of doing the critical end chapter for a section, entitled ' Distance Education: In Whose Interests?', and, best of all, had my 1987 book on the Open University cited as one of the taproots of the critical tradition on DE in the opening Introduction by the editors.
No money -- but nice to be recognized!
Dave Harris
I had the great honour of doing the critical end chapter for a section, entitled ' Distance Education: In Whose Interests?', and, best of all, had my 1987 book on the Open University cited as one of the taproots of the critical tradition on DE in the opening Introduction by the editors.
No money -- but nice to be recognized!
Dave Harris
