Open Learning:: Helped or Hindered by Open Tech?

• Autores: Hilary Temple
• Localización: Innovations in education and teaching international, ISSN 1470-3297, Vol. 25, Nº 3, 1988, págs. 241-244
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The much‐vaunted success of the Open Tech Programme has tended to focus on tangible outputs, such as learning packages created and numbers of learners experiencing some form of open learning. Many of the projects were established in areas of education/training in which MSC is not noted for its credibility, and attracted the suspicion of some open learning traditionalists. Both the statistics and the critics fail to take account of the real benefits flowing from Open Tech. It got industry seriously interested for the first time in open learning; provided useful information sources; gave rise to Training Access Points and The Open College; engendered a willingness in some sections of FHE to use flexible approaches as a mainstream rather than a marginal activity; and gave a new emphasis to both individual responsibility and corporate quality.