Markets, Distance Education, and Australian Higher Education

The paper argues that the Australian university system is unstable. There will be significant change as government implements its reform agenda and even more radical change if it moves to new deregulation. The role of distance education in university education needs to be analyzed against this "...

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Autor principal: Ted Nunan
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Publicado: Athabasca University Press 2005
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:57df5f8c533b49519f9739c0695c85692021-12-02T17:16:19ZMarkets, Distance Education, and Australian Higher Education10.19173/irrodl.v6i1.2231492-3831https://doaj.org/article/57df5f8c533b49519f9739c0695c85692005-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/223https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831The paper argues that the Australian university system is unstable. There will be significant change as government implements its reform agenda and even more radical change if it moves to new deregulation. The role of distance education in university education needs to be analyzed against this "market" agenda of government in terms of characteristics of markets and market behavior. After a scan of the current role, the paper looks at two scenarios (regulated and deregulated) for distance education in university teaching and learning in Australia. Keywords: educational markets, distance education, flexible delivery, competitionTed NunanAthabasca University Pressarticleeducational marketsdistance educationflexible deliverycompetitionSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2005)
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topic educational markets
distance education
flexible delivery
competition
Special aspects of education
LC8-6691
spellingShingle educational markets
distance education
flexible delivery
competition
Special aspects of education
LC8-6691
Ted Nunan
Markets, Distance Education, and Australian Higher Education
description The paper argues that the Australian university system is unstable. There will be significant change as government implements its reform agenda and even more radical change if it moves to new deregulation. The role of distance education in university education needs to be analyzed against this "market" agenda of government in terms of characteristics of markets and market behavior. After a scan of the current role, the paper looks at two scenarios (regulated and deregulated) for distance education in university teaching and learning in Australia. Keywords: educational markets, distance education, flexible delivery, competition
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title Markets, Distance Education, and Australian Higher Education
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title_full Markets, Distance Education, and Australian Higher Education
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title_sort markets, distance education, and australian higher education
publisher Athabasca University Press
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