France: The Move toward Distance Education in the University Sector

Autor/in	Mortimer, Peter
Titel	France: The Move toward Distance Education in the University Sector
Quelle	In: Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 6 (2005) 3, S.233-241 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1528-3518
Schlagwörter	Distance Education; Foreign Countries; Free Enterprise System; Economics; Educational Philosophy; Resistance to Change; Government Role; Educational Technology; Internet; Information Technology; Higher Education; Educational History; Educational Development; Educational Policy; Program Development; Program Implementation; Correspondence Study; Administrative Organization; Politics of Education; Role of Education; Educational Change; Educational Environment; Access to Education; Teaching Methods; Educational Radio; Virtual Universities; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Ausland; Freie Wirtschaft; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Unterrichtsmedien; Informationstechnologie; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsentwicklung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Programmplanung; Educational policy; Bildungsauftrag; Bildungsreform; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungsradio; Schulfunk; Frankreich
Abstract	France is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leading force in Europe. A highly literate and well-educated society, France's education statistics for 2003 show 12.1 million French children in primary and secondary education and 2.2 million students in tertiary education. The concept of education as a market commodity--long since prevalent in the world of distance education--is ill-received in university circles in France. The innate reluctance throughout French universities to adopt the concept of education as a market commodity--with its intrinsic value--has put the brakes on any significant progress in getting substantial distance programs online. In this article, the author discusses France's move toward distance education in the university sector and describes how higher education in France copes with the advent of distance education. The author first presents briefly the path leading to higher education. By its very nature, the author argues that distance education should appeal to the highly transmissive concept of education that abounds in France. Distance education notoriously allows, in its simplest forms, the processing and packaging of knowledge, enabling the learner access to self-manageable chunks of knowledge. (Contains 1 table, 1 figure and 1 note.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10