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Everything for Everybody? The Need for Distance Education to be Relevant to all its Students.
Everything for Everybody? The Need for Distance Education to be Relevant to all its Students.

Author(s): Ignatius G.P Gous
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Higher Education
Published by: European Distance and E-Learning Network
Keywords: Cultural context of e-learning

Summary/Abstract: Distance Education provides education for students spread over the whole of earth, in all time zones, on every continent, in every country. That is at once an exceptional strength of Distance Education, as it is one of its biggest challenges. The strengths are that it brings knowledge and education within reach of all peoples. The challenge is that it needs to consider the aspect of culturally meaningful learning.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 335-341
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English