Book review: Open and Distance Education Theory Revisited

By Jochen Robes, 5. Juli 2019

Obwohl Tony Bates selbst ein Kapitel beigetragen hat, weist er uns in seiner Review auf ein Problem hin, das sich in dieser Übersicht verschiedener “theories of open and distance learning” wiederfindet:

“This is because I am seeing an increasing divergence between the ‘old’ field of open and distance education, and the newly emergent field of digital learning. Unfortunately the digitalization of education seems increasingly to be running in parallel and separately from open and distance education, but nevertheless the increasing digitalization of teaching and learning has massive theoretical and practical implications for open and distance learning.”

Auch über “Open Pedagogy” hätte sich Tony Bates ein paar Zeilen gewünscht. Die vier “foundational theories”, die es in diese Übersicht geschafft haben, kreisen um die Begriffe “autonomy and independence”, “industrialized teaching and learning”, “transactional distance” und “openness” (geschrieben von Markus Deimann).

Auch auf einen weiteren Umstand weist Tony Bates hin: “Lastly I am sure readers will see the irony of a book on open and distance education which costs US$45 for an electronic version and US$30 to download a single chapter, especially since the authors get no payment from the publisher. This is predatory publishing – the complete opposite of open publishing.”
Tony Bates, Online Learning and Distance Education Resources, 1. Juli 2019

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