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Higher Education in Europe

1983 Volume 18, Number 3

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Number of articles: 5

  1. Distance Teaching Universities in Europe

    Greville Rumble

    These aspects of three European open universities in Great Britain, Spain, and West Germany are discussed: the impetus to establish distance teaching universities, academic programs, student... More

    pp. 5-14

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  2. Higher Education and Postgraduate Studies in the GDR Organized as Distance Education

    Horst Mohle

    Aspects of distance education in East Germany are outlined: meeting educational needs, student characteristics, shaping of the curriculum to meet specific national training objectives, program... More

    pp. 26-33

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  3. Development of Distance Education in Austria--An Integrative Model

    Werner Lenz

    The Institute for Distance Education, founded in 1981 for interuniversity research on distance education, is discussed. Its objectives include research, program development, and coordination of... More

    pp. 34-38

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  4. Evaluation of the Open University

    David Hawkridge

    Ten major types of evaluation used at Britain's Open University are outlined, including assessment of access, needs, courses, student progress, tutors and counselors, instructional media, computer ... More

    pp. 39-45

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  5. Establishing Distance Education as a University Discipline--Seven Years of "ZIFF" Research in Hagen

    Borje Holmberg

    The efforts of the West German Zentrales Institut fuer Fernstudienforschung, an institute developed in 1975 to study distance education, are discussed, including its major studies of distance... More

    pp. 46-55

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