Product Description

The authors present a vision of the future of education and training as information technology develops into the twenty first century. Can the classroom as we have known it for four thousand years ever be replaced?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1734022 in Books
• Published on: 1995-06-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
'Our world faces serious problems - population explosion, environmental pollution, energy shortage... Global thinking and global action are the only ways forward, and the virtual classroom - the borderless community - will play an important role in making these possible.' - Dr Nobuyoshi Terashima, President, Advanced Telecommunications Research, Japan

'This timely book adds a valuable international perspective to distance learning.' - Patrick S Portway, Founder and Executive Director, U.S. Distance Learning Association

From the Back Cover
In the closing years of the second millennium the pace of change accelerates. Industrial societies are becoming information societies. What does this mean for education? Today's classroom was designed to prepare people for life in an industrial society. What is needed to prepare them for life in an information society? Will education adopt information technology, or will information technology absorb education? This book presents a vision of what education and training could become as information technology develops.

Customer Reviews

Pioneer of virtual class
The authors are pioneers of applying telecommunications to education.They developed communications based distance educations by using telephone networks and dedicated lines and applied them into education.
Their opinions have great power of persuasion because they actually applied their ideas into education.
They coined virtual class.
This book covers current distance learning and futuristic forecast.
I believe this title is the best book for studying distance education and its related topics.